This Friday, May 9, at 19, Julia Zenko He will present his first book in the Yellow Pavilion of the Book Fair of Buenos Aires. Edited by Galerna, Jaie suretitle of the work, is her name in Idish and the way they call her in her home house.
It is a text that the popular singer began to penetrate during the pandemic, in the long hours of solitude. It seemed a good time to review his life, focusing on his childhood and adolescence. In him he achieved an intimate trip to his personal history, perhaps as a way to reconcile with a past that was not easy.
Throughout the 122 pages, Julia Zenko reveals family secrets and opens her heart to tell some experiences she tried to forget for years. He also talks about his challenge to family mandates, an abuse he suffered at age 8 and how music was a refuge in his life and also a way of healing his wounds.
On her first years of life, the artist tells: “when you were born I almost died … and you too, ‘my mother repeated. Placenta. There were the dad workshop and the bedroom of my parents. Great tango values. And Argentine films with music. The radio was also heard. My old men loved music and theater. They went to the cinema. Music was another member of the family. I remember my dad singing to the lunar that I have close to the mouth: ‘That moon that you have, cute cadel, next to your mouth, do not give it to anyone, cute cadelo, that touches me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, sing and do not cry, because singing they rejoice, cadelito cute, hearts’. Is that song that marked my way with song?
In his autobiography, Julia also refers to his relationship with his brother, actor Juan Trzenko: “Chiquita had a turtle. My brother took out an eye with my mother’s knitting needle. Juan was jealous and did everything to bother me. One day he cut my hair to my wrists. It was asthmatic. He had his first attack when I was born. bullying): I laughed at my ears (Dumbo told me), my nose (‘Hello, narrigasnada’, I greeted me), I invented reasons to get angry. He, cute, intelligent, rebel, with flat ears and a beautiful nose; He danced rock, swimmed, played ping-pong, won medals, was very reader, “describes the singer and actress.
“Juan was a great influence for me on music and theater,” he continues. “
The singer dedicates a part of her book to talk about her relationship with her body: “I always had problems with my weight. At age 12, he weighed 72 kilos. Falling, thinning, gaining weight, thin To therapy. medication to lose weight!
The actress and singer defines that adolescent Julia as “shy and insecure.” In his story he refers to his first boyfriend. “I had lost weight and even had a boyfriend, Mario. I had met him at the David Wolffsohn club. He said it was good, intelligent, but that it was deaf. naive. Kisses, hugs. They let me out with him to dance. Yeah! To dance. He moved to feel the vibration of the floor and a something listened to. He told me that he had been deaf from an ear at four years because of a very high fever and that the other had damaged. I was a girlfriend with him for a year. One day we were in my house, we in the dining room and my old woman, in the kitchen. We start kissing. Very heatedly. He, stroking me, lowered his hand to my legs. I, in Pollera. Suddenly, I felt that his hand was up directly to the forbidden area. I took his hand. I got scared. I told him I didn’t want. Angry I told him to leave. And he left. When I closed the door, I began to cry inconsolably. In the distance, I realize that my mother’s head washing was doing. I cut with him. I don’t know if I really wanted to do it. He was a virgin. I was 15 years old. ”
“When I was a girl I liked staying to sleep in the house of my grandmothers. Those were such different places. My maternal grandmother, Jane, lived in a luxurious apartment,” says Zenko and describes: “There were style furniture, mirrors, important chairs. She was always well dressed, makeup and hairdressing comb, with impeccable nails and with a aroma of Chanel number 5. I liked to look at her. At home we ate cherries and strawberries.
In his story, Zenko says that “years later” knew that his grandmother “had a lover who paid everything.” “From a little girl I was hid sheide. With his bottle ass, his Tuscan, his adams gum, his black hair, his frank smile, his hand grabbing mine taking care of me. He was the most beautiful thing about my childhood. He was a fight. He took me to visit his friends on Libertad Street. I remember one who sold old things and had a black cat. We were going to eat Edelweiss (which still exists), and I kneel in a chair enjoyed my favorite dessert: strawberries with cream. With him I felt dear. My grandmother Jane was very present in our lives. She helped my parents a lot. Especially with money. It was really a shock to find out that David was not my grandfather of blood and that that man we visited in Brazil was my biological grandfather. ”
His grandmother Jane grew up in a brothel “in Poland or Russia, it never made me clear,” says Zenko and continues with the memory of his family: “She was the daughter of a prostitute named Paulina. Simon, one of his clients, fell in love with Paulina and decided He got sick and died. called Zwi Migdal formed by men who came from Poland and Russia bringing girls to exercise prostitution, of which Simon was evidently part ”.
In Jaie Sure, Julia Zenko tells for the first time in her life an abuse situation she suffered when she was just 8 years old. “My grandmother Jane had a neighboring dressmaker with two children. I was going to play a lot with them. One day they sent me to buy threads to sew the buttons business next to the building in Corrientes 4907. There was an elevator, so I went down and bought the threads. When I came back I saw that a peeling man was stopped at the door of the building. The door was open. When I transferred the threshold to climb me And he locked the door with his foot. After the fact, she went up to the house of the dressmaker “crying.” “There was the husband, who went down immediately, but there was no one anymore. I don’t remember how much my grandmother and my mother worried about what had happened. And this is what is now most curious to this story. I have the memory as cloudy. I don’t know if I told them or told me to forget me. I was very small. I think I had not yet turned eight.”
One of the first memories of his relationship with singing comes from when he ended seventh grade at Albert Einstein school. “We were preparing the farewell song and the music teacher wore an engraver to have the song recorded in itself, due to the nerves, we forgot the lyrics or the melody. At one time, when everything was already prepared, she told us that the ones that we sang best we were closer to the microphone. It was then that my companions said: me.
But there is a previous memory that related it to music when I was even smaller. “If I go back at age six I remember another episode with my song. I was at my brother’s birthday party or, rather, at his Mitzvah bar. My family held a party (paid by my grandmother Jane, surely) with a small orchestra and a master of ceremonies that entertained the guests. At one time, they called me to sing. And there I was, singing Ulaid, super refined and enjoying the moment. Changing in my life.
