Announcer, radio drama actor, television entertainer and point of reference for Argentine radio arts. all that he was Juan Carlos Beltranthe voice of the documentary La república perdida, who died on Wednesday February 15 at the age of 87, in Bahía Blanca.
Bahía Blanca was precisely the city that had heard him being born in front of a microphone and to which he had returned more than a decade ago to end a long and qualified career with her signature voice as the central protagonist.
Until 2017, it could be heard “live”, every Saturday, on a Bahian radio station. In those three hours, Beltrán mixed his broad and deep knowledge of music and life with juicy anecdotes about his friendships and encounters with key figures of art and life in the country during his more than 60-year career.
a long road traveled
The long road had begun in the early 1950s, on LU2 Radio Bahía Blanca, as an entrant in a contest looking for new entries for the station. His ability to switch from reading “netless” commercials to conducting interviews and hosting music space, led him to join LU3 and LU7, the other two Bahian radio stations of those years.
The hectic decade of the 1970s saw him set foot on Radio El Mundo, which, in 1976, paved the way for a thirty-year career on the Argentine radio spectrum. His voice, sonorous and warm At the same time, strengthened by a solid training, it consolidated and led him to occupy several slots in most of the capital’s radio stations and across the entire width of the quadrant.
The leap into television would not take long and therefore those who identified him by his characteristic tone of voice would also be captivated by his bonhomie and humor. In Beltran, the spontaneity, vital for anyone wearing a microphone, was accompanied by dedicated preparationbased on respect for the other, which gave him a plus, a watermark of the past.
“I made and make programs for an audience that could relate moments of their life and those of mine, regardless of age,” he said in 2015, in an interview, before a tribute. “What does my career leave me? The conviction of having been consistentthat I didn’t herd anyone through a microphone,” he added in an interview with The new one.
The unforgettable story
From that convulsion of the 70s, to the hope of the 80s, with the recovery of democracy, Beltrán’s voice acquired an even stronger symbolism. The story of him memorable of him in the lost republic, The documentary by Miguel Pérezhelped excite Argentine society with the possibility of finally leave behind long decades of disagreements and pains in the country.
Based on the screenplay by Luis Gregorich and the idea of Henry VanoliThe film addresses successive democratic disruptions from the 1930 coup until the beginning of the dictatorship in 1976.
his retinue, The Lost Republic IIdedicated to the last military regime, the defeat in the Malvinas and the calling for elections with the victory of Raúl Alfonsín, it was a bet that, based on memory, the country would be able to move forward.
Source: Clarin
