Margot Loyola Palacios (September 15, 1918 – August 3, 2015)
was a musician, folk singer and researcher of the folklore of Chile and Latin
America in general.
Loyola was active as a musician and musical
ethnographer/anthropologist for many decades. She published a large body of
work dealing with musical styles, folk music and customs of all Chilean regions
as well as other South American countries. She also taught music.
Loyola was born in Linares, Chile in 1918. She studied piano
with Rosita Renard and Elisa Gayán at the National Conservatory of Music of
Chile, and studied song with Blanca Hauser. In 1952 she immersed herself in
researching the typical Peruvian dances and musical forms, the marinera and the
resbalosa. This allowed her to study the origins of these dances and to
characterize the similarities between the Peruvian and Chilean ones
(resfalosa and cueca). Subsequently, she worked with Porfirio Vásquez, the
patriarch of black music in Peru, and then went on to study the indigenous
culture of Peru with José Maria Arguedas.
culture of Peru with José Maria Arguedas.
Later, Loyola studied Argentine and Uruguayan traditional
and folk music, with Carlos Vega and Lauro Ayestarán, respectively. In 1952,
she began her celebrated research on the ceremonial dances of the Chilean
north, with Rogelia Perez and other musicians and groups. Loyola researched the
folklore and traditional musical styles of all the regions of Chile as well as
Easter Island (a Chilean province, located in the south Pacific Ocean).
Here's "Sau Sau" from above album. (Circa 1960)
She compiled and published a great deal of valuable material
obtained from her scholarly research and was regarded as an artist and
researcher of great authority. Among the art expressions she researched, some
were virtually rescued from oblivion and extinction by her work.
Loyola created Chile's first traditional music and dance
group, The Conjunto de Alumnos de Margot Loyola (Student Group of Margot
Loyola), through which she effectively became an unofficial ambassadress of the
Chilean culture.
In 1972, Loyola became a Professor of the University of
Chile, and in 1998 she was made a Professor emeritus of the Catholic University
of Valparaíso. She was awarded the coveted (Chilean) National Prize of Art
(mention in Music) in 1994 and the "Premio a lo Chileno" in 2001.
She
died on August 3, 2015 at the age of 96 in Santiago de Chile. (Info Wikipedia)
Here's a clip of Margot at the piano taken from a 2006 documentary
Here's a clip of Margot at the piano taken from a 2006 documentary
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For Margot Loyola – Songs From Easter island go here:
http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/ylgbzkA1/file.html
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