Gabriela Pizarro

There she met Silvia Urbina, Jaime Rojas, Rolando Alarcón, and Víctor Jara, among many others, who motivated her in her work as a researcher, teacher, and interpreter of Chilean folk.

Pizarro had already seen the famous duo, the Loyola Sisters, act in Santiago, and then she found a teacher in Margot who valued the popular art that she had learned about in her childhood.«I had to take a test in order to participate in a singing event in the Baquedano Theater.

[2] The folk band was introduced around 1960 at the Municipal Theater of Santiago, where an extensive investigation occurred in Chile, where they compiled dances like the pavo, the cielito, the trastrasera, the pericón, and many others.

After 1973 and then death of Héctor Pavez in exile in 1975, the current economic and social situation forced her to become a popular street singer, mainly performing in the La Vega central market and in folk clubs that were successful during the time.

Later, she received invitations from outcasts, so she visited France and England in 1978, where she was named a member of the Institute of Song and Dance of Britain, Holland, Spain, and Finland in 1985 and Canada in 1987.

Similarly, she recorded the tapes "El folclor en mi escuela" and "Danzas tradicionales" in 1979 for Alerce Productions, and she put on the show “Nuestro Canto” with Ricardo García in the Cariola Theater.

Under the guidance of the University of Chile, she recorded the tape “Romances Cantados.” One year later, she published the book Cuadernos de terreno, in which she displayed a large part of her investigative work.