A warm applause, among many smiles and youth memories by those present, opened The tribute to Roberto Sánchez Ocampo, better known as Sandro, that this April 22 the Ministry of Culture of the City, made him in the central hall of the San Martín Theater. There was no red curtain or dramatic lights, but A latent emotion which serpent the three iconic costumes with which the man of the rose could be identified, as he was known in his marathon, remembered and last concerts of Corrientes Street. They were, their traditional red robe, their white driver of the film of the film I will always love you and his black monkey from the album cover Spectacular. The reason for the celebration -if it is necessary to remember it – 80 years of birth which will be fulfilled on August 19, and the 55 that passed from their unforgettable show en el Madison Square Garden In the heart of New York, United States.
In a climate of intimacy, as if the gypsy could enter at any time from the bottom of the stage, some 150 personas sitting in orderly waiting for those who would remember anecdotes and stories of the idol. And while a giant screen showed his face in the foreground, his most famous songs musicalized the moment. The ones that most inflamed the public were “pink … pink”, “I have” and “give me fire”, while “trigal”, “because I love you” and “gloom”, regulated a temperature that tended to the excitement.
With an unusual punctuality for Buenos Aires dynamics, at 6:30 p.m., the Minister of Culture, Gabriela Ricardes took the microphone, greeted the stalls and explained, among the springs of a formal presentation and her love for the popular idol, the feeling that seized her by said meeting and for being the propeller of the act. Thus, he gave the word to the journalist and biographer Estrella, Graciela Guiñazú, who between personal and winks with those present, whom he called “the girls and children of Sandro”, welcomed the guests. One by one they settled in the armchairs, Linda Peretz, Coni Vera, Ernesto Spitz, son of the remembered producer Emilio Spitz, and Eduardo Barone. They were the most secret stories of the protagonist of Young guyfilm released in 1970 and that was going to project once the open talk was finished, but at the San Martín Cultural Center, Manuel Antín Sala.
Among endearing stories, confessions of part and a period watercolor that were painted among the protagonists of the talk, moderated by Guiñazú that wisely was playing one by the most intimate fiber of its exhibitors, the most lively and human portrait of the popular singer was woven. Peretz broke the ice in his first incursion: “when I filmed with him Life continuesI wanted to corner him but I could never. Those lips so beautiful that he had. ”Such a confession generated a spontaneous laugh and in unison. He said in terms of the seduction emanating from the actor in his films, omitted his feeling although he acknowledged that“ he was very small, he was just 16 years It will have a bad time on the set. ”And he added seriously: “His were values that lasted over time. That is why his image is preserved, increases and new generations know him and admire him even without having lived his success in person. ”
Each of the guests talked about a particular area. Peretz and Vera on the cinema and how it was working with him from the same set, Spitz on behalf of his father, as a producer of the films that rolled, and Barone from the musical side, emphasizing that “Sandro had no link with Argentine rock, because Sandro was Argentine rock in his greatest expression”.
All anecdotes concluded with a smile on the face of everyone present. Be it general public, fans, the occasional look with their same sideburns and even the employees of the complex who simultaneously attended their daily tasks. No one wanted to miss the back room of such a figure. And Coni returns: “Sandro made the fashion and music magazines bring and paid a lot of attention to the changing rooms. He evaluated them, studied and was his source of inspiration and then when he had to act or present a show, create his own concepts. He was attentive to the world that surrounded him and did not let himself be.”
Among the most remembered films of Sandro’s filmography, Ernesto recalled the movie anecdote Love of lovethat ended with the death of the idol and therefore the mouth mouth worked against: “People recommended not to go because Sandro died. Then seeing that the box office did not work, my dad edited the end to end with the kiss between Sandro and Carmen Sevilla. And there the film rebounded. Now we want to rebuild that end and we are checking cans with negatives to find that original end. Task, we believe that in a short time we will find those tapes. ”
With a lot Young guy To Sandro ”to film the iconic dance of John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction and “intimidated it” to recognize it publicly and “pay copyright.” Applauded by all, the journalist continued with various outsakers, for example, remembering the close relationship with all the artists of the national rock of the 70s. And between anecdotes with Litto Nebbia, León Gieco and Charly García, he detailed how generous it was with them. “Moris recorded his first album with a guitar that Sandro gave him because he didn’t have.” “When they left in that dark basement that they said they called the cave, Sandro invited everyone to dinner because nobody had money and even paid the puchos. Sandro’s only condition to do so was not to tell him, that he did not want anyone to find out that he paid everyone, because this was his man’s code.”
With their unknown stories and way of telling, Barone robbed more than one tear to fans who were lit by what they listened. The sudden applause constantly interrupted, but the joy was such that all seemed virgins of the effects of the popular idol. Even Olga Garaventa sitting in the front row with her son and closer beings, she seemed to be surprised by what she listened to. This is Sandro’s magic, even more than 15 years of his physical disappearance, his memory causes unpublished joy.
The closure was for the widow of the idol, who for the first and only time at night stopped and stood in front of the public to thank in the first person. Visibly excited, she acknowledged that she didn’t have much more to say after all the praise she had given her husband. “It really was a wonderful being, of a lot of light and very supportive. A person who had many codes and principles and marked them in concrete attitudes. What can I add of him, than It was an exceptional being. Just say thank you, thank you, thank you. ”
The tribute was not just an act of memory. It was, above all, a confirmation: Sandro is still alive in each story, in each song chanted in the middle of the voice and in every tear that escapes when his music sounds again. Because the gypsy, as his fans know well, never left. It only became a legend.
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