“We celebrate Rozín with memories and songs”, said the first socket accompanied by the theme Together by Abel Pintos that was seen in Morfi’s rock, with photos and archive images of the remembered producer and journalist who died on Friday 11 at 51. From 11 the cycle pays tribute to the creator and host of the cycle for more than five years.
With a special program on the Telefe screen that will feature Jesica Cirio, Zaira Nara and Julieta Prandi in charge of the broadcast. This time, the set of The sorrow will receive those who were his companions in front of the screen and various artists, colleagues and friends of the producer, who died at the age of 51 as a result of a brain tumor detected last year. During his career, the driver and journalist from Rosario had achieved, with his characteristic and personal style, great relevance thanks to Morfi, everyone at the table and The sorrow, where recovered popular music played live on open TV.
“Morfi is a word that is used when you eat with friends and loved ones”, He was heard saying it in one of the fragments of the tribute video with which the program started, in which colleagues and friends remembered him. “He is the one who did the most for music”the Sole fired him and Daniel Hadad added: “One of the best guys in the industry.” “Thank you for what you left in your children and the people who love you, your friends, thank you for being a human being, people”, added Cris Morena.
Then he officially opened the show in the studio. “It is a difficult day, but we are part of a great family that Gerardo created, each musician and artist who passed through The sorrow It was celebrated and that is what we are going to do. Fifty artists are going to say present with a song, which was what he loved the most, who was a friend to me”, he presented Jessica Cirio.
ariel rodriguez He said that his first reaction this Sunday was to go look for him in the dressing room like every week: “I wanted to learn from him and I learned a lot, he was a teacher”. “Great partner, teacher, today, Sunday, March 20, it will be the best rock,” he added through tears. Giorgini Santiago and gave voice to Eugenia Qubel, announcer and partner of Gerardo, who could not speak too much because of the emotion: “My partner, we chose each other many years ago.”
“There is no better way than to celebrate it and remember it with songs and that’s how we are the first theme”, Cirio presented and “When” began to play, led by the program’s band, Two plus one. Minutes later they showed an unpublished video that he recorded a few months ago in which he is seen performing the theme “I’m staying”.
In a symbolic way, they were taking the keys of Gerardo’s “treasures”. The first was Rosario, that came from the hand of the song “El iceberg”, by Juan Carlos Baglietto. “He and the Peña were a kind of shelter of den of live Argentine popular musicit happens again that someone leaves who in some way orphans the artistic community, hopefully someone will take that post, “the singer-songwriter described it.
Infallible within the “Rosario treasure”, were his local friends. “This city was a permanent nostalgia for him”, said Alejandro, a life partner whom he saw for the last time at the Monument to the Flag. And everyone defined it as a “Ambassador of Rosario”. In the background, the music of Fito Páez and photos of his childhood and adolescence on the banks of the Paraná.
Football occupied an important place in his life and as a fan of CentralHe wore his team’s shirt and flag whenever he could. “See you always Rozín”, Said the flag with which the players came out this week. “I appreciate that he always named Central, he went to Buenos Aires and never took off his shirt,” said Ángel di María and Mario Kempes explained that it is a feeling that cannot be explained.
Zaira Nara who worked for years driving Morphwas also part of the tribute and highlighted the number of musicians who loved him and to whom he gave space: “The love that people in the media and the public had for him, this is for him and what is most difficult for me is that he is not enjoying it.”
“A fire was lit as is the tradition every Sunday and outside is the entire team that always puts up with it”, said the host and introduced all the cooks who went through the program, among whom, in addition to Santiago were Rodrigo Gascón and Chantal Abad.
“A fire was lit as is the tradition every Sunday and outside is the entire team that always puts up with it”, said the host and introduced all the cooks who went through the program, among whom, in addition to Santiago were Rodrigo Gascón and Chantal Abad and Roberto Peloni, Alejandro Gardinetti, Pato Munzio and Toti Ciliberto joined, comedians who are or were in Morph.
The “second treasure key” was presented by Zaira: “It’s the radio and it makes itself present with Alejandro Lerner singing ‘After you’”. “He did not want to be compared with Badía, but he was a great one, one of those common men who create extraordinary things, he created like Juan Alberto, and whenever one came here he felt at home, “said the interpreter. “The team that made this tribute was finding things that it seems that Gerardo produced on purpose”, Wanda’s sister added.
“It was arbitrary that he had not been doing radio all his life, he was a driver, he generated themes, I recommended him in each place because he was a radio bug who did not work as he would have wanted. and people like him I do not know if they will appear more, with everything he read, he lived in Rosario, he learned from Fontanarrosa or Fito, he was his listener, “he said Beto Casella.
“Friend of the house”, as Cirio defined it, Diego Torres remembered him as “a guy who loved music and giving space and generating moments” and dedicated the song “Trying to be better” to him.
And it was precisely on the radio where he met Eugenia Quibel, whom he later took to television and who was his last partner: “We met on the radio, we loved doing radio together, there he was a different guy. He made unforgettable programs and the audience followed him, put his heart on the table, studied just as he did for the program and always with the question ahead, ‘what are we here for?’ if we don’t change a little the life of the one who is on the other side, he didn’t make sense ”.
“I have known him for thirteen years and I learned a different study, when he called me for the Peña off, he told me ‘I want to do radio on TV’ and it was one of the most beautiful professional experiences. Today it is difficult for me and for everyone to be here and we pay this tribute because it is what he wanted, “she added excitedly. They immediately gave rise to Rolo, from La Berissowho played “Do not forget me” and later it was the turn of George Drexler.
Also participating in the tribute and putting their voices were emerging artists that Gerardo had brought to the cycle to offer them a window to show themselves, such as Cata Raybaudy and Javier Montalto. “He believed more in us than in ourselves,” said the grateful singer.
The third key opened it Julieta Prandi, what thanks for coming with the producer. “It feels beautiful to be here honoring him and celebrating his life, everyone who is here loved him. The treasures were the soul mother of the program we did and this is one of the most important for himthat of friendship and is opened by his great friend and godfather of The sorrow: Jairo”.
Being here is a great emotion, singing here and being named godfather of La Peña is very important and here one could sing what they wanted, the best they could do and an ingredient that was never lacking was the emotional one, through the lyrics”, said the musician before performing “The Valley and the Volcano.”
Among his friends in the middle they are Reynaldo Sietecase and Luis Rubio, his “family in exile in Buenos Aires.” What’s more by Roberto Moldavsky, Romina Manguel, Alejandro Tantanian, Tomas Pashkus. With everyone at some point (graphics, radio or television) he worked.
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