 She recorded, outside Cuba, numbers from the zarzuela "Cádiz" in 1898 on unnumbered Bettini cylinders.Much of her career was spent in Cuba, but she also sang in Mexico City, New York City, Milan, Caracas, Madrid and Barcelona.Chalía studied singing with Angelo Massanet, then she went to New York to perfect her skills at the School of Opera and Oratorio of Emilio Agramonte.