This article analyzes the participation of the musician-soldiers and artists of Afro-descendant in the independence movement in Chile and how their inclinations and expertise converged in a project that was in tune both with their interests and those of a patriotic revolution. It suggests that these men, as they traveled from one region to another, carried and reproduced contents and practices characteristic of their places of origin as well as those of the independence movement: it concludes that their practices led to an incipient, but important, symbolic mechanism of belonging in line with the ideas of the patriots. Finally, it broadens the geographical horizon of the Chilean independence movement and analyzes the role of these subjects as "mediators" between different societies or groups during the colonial period and the start of the republican one.