Roberto Parra Sandoval: Difference between revisions

In September 1957, he arrived for the first time in the Chilean port of ''San Antonio'', where he was hired to sing with the orchestra of the cabaret ''Luces del Puerto''. In the boite ''Río de Janeiro'', he met ''La Negra Ester'', a prostitute and performer of the boite. They started a sentimental relationship that was immortalized in his book '''Las décimas de la Negra Ester''', a poetry book written in [[décimas]]. [[Andrés Pérez Araya]], director of the theater company [[Gran Circo Teatro]], later adapted La Negra Ester for the stage; the stage adaptation became a milestone in Chilean theater.<ref>http://museo.fotech.cl/verbiografia.php?id=7; see also [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Negra_Ester Spanish-language entry on La Negra Ester] {{es icon}}</ref>