Alejandro Bettinotti (July 10, 19622 - May 23, 2022)3 was an Argentine documentary filmmaker, singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.
Biography[edit]
With a thirty-year trajectory in music, he came merging tango, rock and popular music, taking his particular style to hundreds of places in Argentina and the world.
Always with independent and self-managed productions, he edited twelve studio albums, three documentaries and a book.
In 2003, he was summoned, indicated as an innovator within the genre to the Argentina Festival Again, in the city of Barcelona, in Spain, and then toured to the south of that country.
In 2009 he made the script and produced the documentary Entrañas del asfalto, a deep look at the origin of tango and its current contrast with the new forms of the genre.
In 2013, he published his first book Tangos a la deriva, which includes an album as a soloist, poems and texts. In 2014 he presented the book at the International Book Fair and at the Casa Carlos Gardel Museum.
Between 2010 and 2015 he made live presentations at several National Universities in Argentina and abroad such as Greece, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico, (these presentations in Colombia, Greece and Ecuador were declared of Cultural Interest by the Argentine Foreign Ministry, the Argentine National Institute of Music, the Argentine Embassy in Greece and the Argentine Consulate in Guayaquil, Ecuador). Through his artistic work, he generated different debates with the communities of each region. As a result of these meetings, the Documentaries were made: Che, who are you? and University Tours.
He took his particular style to hundreds of places in Argentina, Latin America and the World.
In Argentina, among other stages, he performed at La Trastienda, La Feria Internacional del Libro Buenos Aires, Teatro ND Ateneo, Casa Museo Carlos Gardel, Café Tortoni, Torquato Tasso, Club del Vino, Bar Tuñón, Festival de Tango Independiente Buenos Aires, Café Notorious, Teatro Bauen, Centro Cultural Cooperación.
In the 80s he put together the group Barrio Negro, in the 90s the rock band Señores Monos, in the two thousand the tango duo Bettinotti-Fernández and then his solo career.
He was indicated as one of the exponents of the "hidden tango" current, in the essay that bears that title by the researcher Silvana Boggiano, which deals with a musical current as opposed to the "official tango".4
Discography[edit]
- 1994 - Gentlemen Monkeys - Already in the police car the unbalanced does not show regret
- 2004 - Bettinotti Fernández - Los Porteños de Gardel5
- 2006 - Bettinotti Fernández - Tangolpeados6
- 2007 - Bettinotti Fernández - Rezongando Rezongar6
- 2008 - Bettinotti Fernández - Man dies of man6
- 2009 - Bettinotti Fernández - Let's kill the TV6
- 2010 - Bettinotti Fernández - Fumigying us6
- 2011 - Bettinotti Fernández - Live at the Nd Ateneo 2009
- 2012 - "Bettinotti Fernández - Esquifuzos"
- 2013 - Alejandro Bettinotti - Drifting Tangos
- 2015 - Alejandro Bettinotti - Riddles
- 2016 - Alejandro Bettinotti - Part of the art
- 2018 - Alejandro Bettinotti - Weapons of peace
DVD[edit]
- 2010 - Bettinotti Fernández - DVD of the Live Recital at the Teatro Nd Ateneo 2009
Documentary[edit]
- 2009 - Entrañas del Asfalto, documentary about the work of Bettinotti-Fernández, directed by Héctor Rivero.7
-2015 - Che: Who are you? (A journey of art through University lands)
-2017 - University Tour Ecuador
References[edit]
- ^ Bettinotti - Fernández present their new album (broken link available in the Internet Archive; see the history, the first version and the last). 11/3/2011 genteba.com.ar
- ^ Pablo Montagna (May 24, 2022). "Alejandro Bettinotti (10/7/1962 - 23/5/2022)" Twitter. Accessed on May 24, 2022.
- ^ "Alejandro Bettinotti, author of a work that fuses tango, rock and urban poetry, died." www.ambito.com. Accessed on May 24, 2022.
- ^ Essay addresses "the hidden tango" by the official culture 10/1/2011, Télam
- ^ Tangos between Gardel and Tangalanga 10/19/2004, Diario Clarín
- ↑ a b c d e Interview at biendeabajo.com
- ^ The irreverent guard 6/11/2009, Diario La Nación.
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