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Pizarro was the daughter of José Abraham Pizarro and Blanca Hortensia Soto Figueroa. Her mother had studied at Chile's National Conservatory of Music and she was in her church choir, in an orchestra, and in theater and opera groups in Lebu. Gabriela was introduced to folk when she accompanied her father to collect rent from his tenants.
The Chilean New Song movement was spurred by a renewed interest in Chilean traditional music and folklore in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Folk singers such as Violeta Parra and Víctor Jara traversed the regions of Chile both collecting traditional melodies and songs and seeking inspiration to create songs with social themes. These songs ...
In 1952, encouraged by her brother Nicanor, Violeta began to collect and collate authentic Chilean folk music from all over the country. [12] She abandoned her old folk-song repertoire, and began composing her own songs based on traditional folk forms.
The original group was formed in April 1937 by Carlos Morgan, the brothers Pedro and Ernesto Amenábar, and Mario Besoaín. The four friends, who at the time were students at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, styled themselves as Los Quincheros; [1] in English their name means "those who use the quincha," a construction of wood and cane used to contain the livestock ...
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The Guitarrón Chileno (literally: "large Chilean guitar") is a guitar-shaped plucked string instrument from Chile, with 25, 24 (rarely), or even 26 strings. Its primary contemporary use is as the instrumental accompaniment for the traditional Chilean genre of singing poetry known as Canto a lo Poeta , though a few virtuosi have also begun to ...
Margot Loyola in 2013. Margot Loyola Palacios (September 15, 1918 – August 3, 2015) was a Chilean folklorist, musician, dancer, and teacher. She is considered one of the most influential musicians of Chile, pioneering folkloric research and transforming traditional music education and performance.