Chilean songs

"La Jardinera" is a song in the tonada genre written and performed by Violeta Parra. The song was originally recorded by the Hermanas Parra (Violeta Parra and Isabel Parra) and released on the Odeón label (89-952 A).

"Arriba en la Cordillera" (translanted: "Up in the Mountain Range") is a song by the Chilean singer-songwriter Patricio Manns released as single in 1965 and included in the 1966 studio album Entre Mar y Cordillera. It reached #1 on the Chilean charts and was chosen as the most popular song at Huaso de Olmué Festival in 2009.

"Gracias a la vida" (Spanish for "Thanks to life") is a song composed and first performed by Chilean musician Violeta Parra, one of the artists who set the basis for the movement known as Nueva Canción. Parra composed "Gracias a la vida" in La Paz in 1966, and the song was released on Las Últimas Composiciones, the last album Parra published before committing suicide in 1967. The song is one of Parra's most renowned and is performed throughout the world, and remains as one of the most covered Latin American songs in history. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.

There are five thousand of us here in this small part of the city. We are five thousand. I wonder how many we are in all in the cities and in the whole country? ... How hard it is to sing when I must sing of horror. Horror which I am living, horror which I am dying. To see myself among so much and so many moments of infinity in which silence and screams are the end of my song.

"Volver a los Diecisiete" is a song written and performed by Violeta Parra. It was composed in 1962 but was not released until 1966 on her final album, "Las últimas composiciones".

Mentira (Lie) is a song composed by Chilean Buddy Richard in 1982 and was a huge international hit for Nicaraguan singer, songwriter and composer Hernaldo Zúñiga and, almost simultaneously, it also meant a major success for Argentinian Valeria Lynch. This song was composed by Richard to participate in 1982 Chilean television contest "Aplauso" ("Applause") on Channel 13, which he won.

"Gata Only" is a single song by Chilean singers FloyyMenor and Cris MJ. The solo version by FloyyMenor was released as a single on 21 December 2023, through UnitedMasters, but it was removed days later. The duet version featuring Cris MJ was subsequently released on 2 February 2024, serving as the lead single from FloyyMenor's debut EP, El Comienzo. A remix of the song, featuring Puerto Rican singer Ozuna and Brazilian singer Anitta, but omitting Álvarez, was released on 7 June 2024.