Eliseo Parra is one Spain's leading performers and researchers of folk music. Parra was born in Sardón de Duero (Valladolid).

He began his musical career in Barcelona, in the late 1960s, as a drummer in several rock groups.  n 1971, Eliseo Parra recorded his first LP with the group Mi Generación; an album that featured his own songs. During six years Parra combined his work with the rock band with the solfeggio and harmony studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona. Around 1976 he took part in the then burgeoning Barcelona jazz scene, also known as Movida Zeleste, by joining  Catalan jazz Blay tritono and later the Rondalla de la Costa.

The first album by Eliseo Parra's new band came out in 1984. It was a tribute to the great musician and folklorist from Segovia, Agapito Marazuela, with music from his Songbook. A second album came out in 1985 with original music inspired by Spanish traditional music. The group toured throughout Spain, France, Italy and Denmark until 1987. From 1988 through 1991, Parra performed solo in Spain, Italy and Morocco.

In 1992, Parra recorded his first solo album, “Al-Bedrio”. The album came out in 1993 and Eliseo Parra formed a band that toured Spain, Switzerland and Israel. For Christmas of 1994, a new album, “Arraigo”, was released, with 17 of the most beautiful songs from the Salamanca tradition performed with electronic equipment almost in its entirety.

In December of 1996, Eliseo Parra represented Spain at the Forum of Mediterranean Culture that took place in Jerusalem.

In 1997, Parra participated as arranger and musician on the album of Sudanese singer Rasha. Tat same year he participated in a landmark album called Tribus Hispanas (Hispanic Tribes) that featured some of Spain's finest world music artists: Javier Paxariño, Elisea Serna, Jaime Muñoz, Carlos Beceiro, etc.

In March 2002, BOA Records released Eliseo Parra's album “Viva quien sabe querer”. That same year, Parra composed the soundtrack for “Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña”, staged by the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (National classical theater Company), where he participated as an actor, musician and singer throughout 2002.