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{{Infobox musical artist
| name                = Juanita Parra
| image               = Juanita Parra 2015.jpg
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| caption             = Parra in 2015
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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| alias               = Juana Parra
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1970|11|19}}<!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per [[WP:DOB]] -->
| birth_place         = [[Santiago]], [[Chile]]
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| genre               = [[Folk music|Folk]], [[folk rock]], [[progressive rock]]
| occupation          = Musician
| instrument          = [[Drums]], [[percussion]]
| years_active        = 1990-present
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| associated_acts     = [[Los Jaivas]]
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'''Juana (Juanita) Parra''' (born 19 November 1970) is a [[Chile]]an musician, known as the drummer and percussionist of the [[Chile]]an [[progressive rock]]–folk band [[Los Jaivas]].  Joining the band three years after her fathers death, she is the only woman to play in the band over its fifty-year history.  Her style of drumming was distinctive and known for successfully mixing Latin and Progressive Rock.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Angela |title=Women drummers: a history from rock and jazz to blues and country |date=2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-8834-0 |location=Lanham, Maryland}}</ref>

She is the daughter of [[Gabriel Parra]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sonymusic.com/globetrotter/jaivas.html |title=Featured Artist: Los Jaivas |publisher=Sony Music |accessdate=2008-07-04 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521162543/http://sonymusic.com/globetrotter/jaivas.html |archivedate=2008-05-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Eugenia Correa. Gabriel was the original drummer of [[Los Jaivas]]. He died in a car accident in [[Peru]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Yahoo! Music|title=Los Jaivas: Biography|url=http://uk.music.yahoo.com/ar-255628-bio--Los-Jaivas|accessdate=2008-07-04}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Juanita joined the band as the drummer after her father's death. Her first CD with the band was ''[[Hijos de la tierra]]'' in 1995.

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