"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".[1][2]

The song was reissued on multiple compilation albums, including The Songs of Violeta Parra (1997)[3] and Antologia (2003).[4] Banned from the musical repertoire during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship along with « Thanks to life», the lyrics of «Volver a los 17» have a poetic character vindication for "the value of feeling above reason" with a rhetoric that seeks to describe "the purifying, ardent effects of achieved love."

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The song has become a standard in the Latin American songbook and has been recorded and performed by numerous artists, including Mercedes Sosa,[5] Milton Nascimento,[6] Joan Manuel Serrat, Franco Simone, Víctor Manuel, Rosa León,[7] Paloma San Basilio, Charly García, Caetano Veloso, Myriam Hernández, Chico Buarque, Zélia Duncan, Gal Costa, Marilia Andrés with Nacho Vegas,[8] Zizi Possi,[9] Claudia Acuña,[10] Angel Parra,[11] Nydia Caro,[12] Rumillajta,[13] Elise Witt,[14] and Rozalén.[15]

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