Current analysis produces partial results of an international research on exiled musicians in the South American Southern Cone during the dictatorship periods in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chili between the 1960s and 1980s. Sources comprise an analysis of biographies, discographies, political police official documents and information service and, mainly, the witnesses of those involved. Although the case of exiled musicians with important media projection is well known, certain musicians were ignored by History and the gap may be filled through oral history. Besides knowledge on the musicians' life history, the methodology revealed the difficulties, the characteristics of each dictatorial regime, the subjects that pervaded this historical period and the response of the musicians to such occurrences. The life history of the Argentine tango musician and member of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT), Néstor (Piru) Gabetta, will be analyzed. Gabetta was exiled in France for nine years starting from 1976, a period in which he participated in the Tiempo Argentino group and launched Tango Rojo. During his exile, he also lived in Spain and continued his musical carrier. Such trajectory recurs in the case of exiled musicians, or rather, their parallel activities as musicians and revolutionaries. During their exile, the musicians denounced the dictatorial regimes and manifested solidarity to the regimes' victims. They participated in movements that gathered other musicians of different nationalities and political opinions.

Politicians Exile Argentine dictatorship Musicians

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