VEINTE AÑOS NO ES NADA...
Pilar was born in 1968 just before the beginning of the Uruguayan military dictatorship. In her teens she was conditioned by a creative environment and a deeply socio-political compromised father. She soon must assume her parents marital failure and the long political exile of his father in Spain, starting her search of communication as she justifies :
“I do not get on a stage if I have nothing to say. The guy who gets on a stage to get acclaimed is not an artist. He might be a mercenary, and that is fearsome. But it is more probable that he may be an idiot and just look how idiots with power are running the world.”
In 1991 she records her first work “ESCALA DE VALORES” (“Set of Values”), which sees the light in early 1995 (EMI URUGUAY). The main theme for this first work is chosen as a musical interlude in a Official Uruguayan TV Channel journalistic program.
“… the most intense and stable one in my life, excluding the relationship with my parents and the relationship with my daughters”.
In Madrid she approaches tango by chance when she is asked to create a Jingle for a program at the Intercontinental Radio Station. She conceives and performs this version of “Silbando” (“Whistling”) by S. Piana according to the program profile.
“I saw the tango as an excessive genre until life showed me how excessive it can get. Then I was a curious listener but keeping distances for a while. You need life experiences and humility in order to approach it. This is what happens with intense things : you get away while your field of vision is short… even though that does not mean they are not there indeed.”
In February 2002 she is asked by the management of the Granada International Tango Festival to represent this festival at the launch in Madrid. In the framework of this festival she also took part in the tribute to the International Woman Day at the Isabel la Católica theatre in Granada, sharing lineup with respected figures such as Estrella Morente.
In 2003 she performs "Al mundo le falta un tango" (“The world is lacking a Tango”) for the first time, written and performed by the artist, a tango fusion performance using tango as a start for a “non very conventional, but modern and hot” proposal, “using tango to open up doors and windows to the essence of things”.
In June 2008 she undertakes a new project in Madrid that in smooth progression summons a number of people that still makes it being on up to now. In this project, she performs accompanied by the Bahian (Brasil) composer and pianist Benjamin Lins. During the cycle some wonderful, deeply sensitive and with solid basement artists join : Annabelle Gouache (cello) and a frequent guest : Sara Bondi (flute).
In 2009 she records with them some songs at the Musigrama Studio in Madrid, thanks to a generous impulse from the producer Paco Ortega. In a few hours at the studio the experiences of the cycle get recorded and “Carne de Luna” (“Moon Flesh”) is born. The name was due to an unpublished manuscript by her father, artist himself as well and dead more than ten years before, returned back by a mysterious professor at the Complutense University that she never got to know.
You are listening to “La Luna” (“The Moon”), a recorded version at the Prado de San Juan (RNE) studios for the “Siluetas” program by Manuel Ventero.
