Career
A small man, he was keen and smart. His quick thinking and singing earned him a bright and prominent role in the bertso scene. As he was a miller and his income was scant, he would accept any request to sing.
Good-humored and with a smile always on his lips, he had irony and the capacity to tease.
Frequently petitioned to perform, he never refused. Pello Errota sung with all bertsolaris of his era performing at fairs, weddings, contests, et cetera
He also published bertso-paperaki. He also went to the Basque Fairs of Euskara from Elizondo alongside José Bernardo Otaño.
He became so popular that in 1895 some Americans took him to Argentina, paying him the return ticket.
He was 78 years old when he died at his home in Goikoerrota. Mikaela also wrote a book which related the life of her father. lieutenant narrates her family"s history, and the Carlist Wars among other things.
