At the age of 88, singer Dina Rot, mother of Cecilia Roth and Ariel Rot, died

10/28/2020 10:18 PM

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Updated 10/28/2020 10:18 PM

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died in Buenos Aires at the age of 88, during the afternoon of this Wednesday, October 28, as a result of a lung condition that could have been a derivation of the Covid-19 that she suffered months ago, although from asymptomatic way.

Mother of the actress Cecilia Roth and the guitarist and composer Ariel Rot was a precursor artist of the Sephardic song with twelve published albums, among them,

(1970), 

(1997),

(1971) and

(2001).

Dina Gutkin Saposnik was born on March 5, 1932, in Mendoza;

He began his

, with Lidia Kinderman with whom he developed classical singing and later, in Buenos Aires, he

, music at the Collegium Musicum and music therapy at the University of El Salvador.

The singer settled in Spain, exiled from the Argentine Military Dictatorship, and for almost 20 years she abandoned music to embrace teaching.

Between 1962 and 1966 her research work took her to Spain, where she was soaked in

and especially in the old anonymous romances of the Sephardic songbook, with which she fell in love.

“First I was interested in chamber music, then lyrical singing, but later I felt that it was not all that I was looking for;

I found in the Spanish ballads what I was looking for and compiled a very rich material from

prior to the inquisition.

He knows that these songs united my Spanish republican and Francoist friends ... That is what this music has, ”Rot pointed out in an interview.

To that musical world he added the Latin American popular song.

First, in 1967, with the composer Jorge Schussheim, who musicalized poems by Pedro Orgambide, César Vallejo, Gabriela Mistral, Violeta Parra, Raúl González Tuñón and Juan Gelman, among others.

Shortly after, in June 1968, at the Payró Theater, they presented the show

, with texts by Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht, Anna Frank and Federico García Lorca.

This attitude committed to her time later forced her to go into exile in Spain, along with her two children, when she

, for having sung a poem by

on the official channel.

Dina Rot with Luis Eduardo Aute, during their time as a resident in Spain.

/ Photo ALEJANDRO CHEREP

In Spain he decided to abandon singing to devote himself fully to teaching.

“The decision to abandon singing

.

Starting from scratch in a place other than one's own meant many wounds, and I

So, I left it behind, "he said in an interview given to La Nación.

The song for Rot then fell into the background.

However, in 1995, almost twenty years after being exiled, the teacher received

at her Madrid home

.

The message decidedly broke that firm decision not to sing again.

He defined this moment as "a beautiful magic wheel."

A year later, in March 1997, Rot premiered those poems in Madrid under the title 

, with music by Eduardo Laguillo, and in May he presented them at the Book Fair in Buenos Aires, where he also gave a series of performances in the Pablo Picasso room, on Paseo La Plaza,

, then his son-in-law, as a guest.

The next step was the Buenos Aires premiere of his show

, in which he gathered poetry of a varied thematic scope, such as

,

,

,

,

and

.

That was a time when the singer gained intimacy by being

, a meeting where that intimacy was the prevailing atmosphere of the show.

In 2001, Dina Rot released the album

, accompanied by Morgado on guitar, Facundo Guevara on percussion and Damián Bolotín on violin, among others,

and actress Norma Leandro.

"I wanted to sing today, with my current voice, those songs that I recorded thirty years ago. I wondered which songs in my repertoire had survived and which I could not do again. I did an important study of what I had and some survived", He then told

.

In 2006, he published

, edited by Lumen, in which Rot exposed his method of sound exploration.

An integral artist who made sensitivity an unalterable value throughout her musical and teaching career, in which she exhibited a balanced combination of

.

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