in dialogue with Ambit, “The Tana Rinaldi” He talked about his relationship with tango, the goodbye to the stage and about his shows.
Journalist: What balance can you make regarding your extensive career and this incipient (and supposed) farewell to the stage?
Susana Rinaldi: I have an age in which surely there is something that I forget and I leave it in oblivion, but it is very likely that after telling myself that internally I remember things that I am going to erase or not. Each one of my relationships, each one of my hopes or each one of my protections is so particular, it is so difficult to declare from each one of those themes that I have become accustomed to imprints. That is, things that suddenly appear in one’s life that one didn’t even imagine and at the same time are interesting. I mean that one gives for a little more still. I feel that there are people who are very interested in knowing about my life, I don’t know why (laughs) anyway I say what happens to me. On the other hand, there are people who want to work with me on projects, on things that come from a long time ago, and that is already a proposal that makes one feel better, and when one still depends on the affection and the word about the work that one does something very beautiful and important. It means that what one has done has been worth it.
Q.: What did tango give you that acting couldn’t give you, in terms of sensations?
MR: It’s all together and there are several things at once. Sometimes some things were lucubrated from morning to night and without knowing why. On the other hand, the importance that marrying a man (Osvaldo Piro) has had in my life, who made a display of the music to which I later adhered, made it suddenly have a greater importance for me. Then also to have the possibility of everyone who could take the music almost as their own through different ways and behaviors.
I do not regret anything I did regarding the history of tango, on the contrary, I met people within tango who were much older than me in my early years, who helped me a great deal to better understand what I was saying and why in that moment. That’s important because it doesn’t leave music alone at the mercy of what the public may suppose, or want, or like.
The important thing is what is shown even today in the history of tango, it has a more than important weight, even if you don’t want to measure it or suddenly they refuse to carry it forward. There are people like me who insist and it’s not bad for me, because the people who come to see me like it as much as I do. That’s why I say something must have this music in particular and its life, its work, its trajectory over the years that has made people not forget it from one day to the next.
Q.: Why do you think young people get so close to your shows?
MR: I am very different from some who are important in the history of tango, I have searched for things that perhaps did not correspond to me and, nevertheless, it has had a very large result with the public. That didn’t just happen to me here, it also happened to me in Europe, I think it was the first place where I realized that I was singing something sacred. I have the immense fortune that people follow me from one place to the other, it’s as if they wanted to repeat something that I sang a long time ago or just the opposite, to hear what I sing today.
I also have the habit of speaking between topics, things that people present today, especially young people, have never heard. They listen to it today and say “this has a little more value than I might believe”, and that fills me with pride because tango has been talked about a lot but very little has been known about it, so I think it is a possibility that I I drink, not only because I am able to remember things that others cannot, but because it is a joy, especially thinking of the young people who come. A very strange thing happens to me that I keep saying in general and that is that there is an affection on the part of the public who are not exactly as old as me, they are of all ages and that is very important.
Q.: Could it be because of the message you transmit from the stage?
MR.: One says things throughout the duration of the show, things that no one imagined existed, that is, they remain a bit hung up. There are some who tell me: “On some occasion my grandfather told me, but not as you are singing it.” It is trying to rediscover something that had a lot of presence and that we cannot stop saying. There was a very long time where we stayed inside our respective houses and listened to what we could hear and nothing more, but since the floodgates were opened for the actors and musicians to go out there, it was worth remembering.
Q.: Is it true that during the pandemic you were writing?
MR: It is like that, and we have to hurry to write, because suddenly we say things as we have received them, then we think in different ways and I have mine and I want it to remain as a possibility, let’s say that I want my vision to remain. I am one of those who says what is happening to them, and there were many people who have left and did not have that possibility. If not I can say, for now, what can happen with those writings, but they will be there.
Q.: About your shows at Tasso, what sensations did the first leave you with and what can people expect from those who will come?
MR: It was a great surprise because people expect me to sing certain works and they find something else. These are things that amuse me, they have to do with the way the public stops to listen to an artist. That’s why I tell them to come, that what wasn’t done in one show will surely be done in another. Luckily the public has always accompanied me and that is very important. What I can say is that young people are the ones who get the biggest surprise listening, the best thing that happens is that they are expecting to hear something and their expectations are exceeded, that is important and I am not far behind, I am going forward.
Susana Rinaldi is performing on Fridays May 13, 20 and 27 from 8:30 p.m. at Torquato Tasso, tickets are available through Passline.
Source: Ambito
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