Violeta Parra was never just a singer. She built structures. Songs where people could gather, where solidarity could live. Through her Peña de los Parra, she created a community arts center where students, workers, and Indigenous musicians gathered to reclaim Chile’s folk traditions. This was an insurgent pedagogy. By placing Mapuche and other Indigenous voices at the heart of Chile’s identity, Parra confronted the silences of colonial erasure and neoliberal destruction. Her verses braided grief, activism, and love, ensuring that song could be a practice of collective survival. “Por la mañanita” is an everyday hymn — of mornings and awakenings, but also of vigilance and endurance.