Gerardo Rozín’s single was released singing with the Dos Más Uno group

In December 2021, Dos Más Uno and Gerardo Rozín got together in the studio to record two of the songs that sealed the artistic bond that united them.

The idea of ​​recording has been around since Dos Más Uno and Gerardo Rozín conceived The Fortress of Morfi – and then they presented live at CABA- that segment entitled “The most beautiful songs in the world”, which traces the versions of the trio and the words of Gerardo, important pieces of the Ibero-American songbook.

Now, after the presentation of I’ll staythe second record of that day is now available on digital platforms, I remain.

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“Gerardo felt as comfortable singing with us as we did behind closed doors, so when we told him we wanted to go to the studio to record something before the end of the year, he immediately wanted to participate,” the trio says. that meeting.

I’ll stay, by Pablo Milanés, was the piece that Dos Más Uno proposed to record as they consider it a symbol of the meeting between the musicians and the guest. It was the song with which they closed the show “The most beautiful songs in the world”.

Gerardo not only accepted, but also offered to record I remain by Cuchi Leguizamon. That was the song she chose in May 2021 to sing with the trio The Fortress of Morfi and, in some way, he expressed in words the delicate health situation he was going through and of which only his relatives were aware. “I wanted to say that something was happening, but I didn’t want to make the news,” says Gerardo in the introduction to this heartfelt version.

Dos Más Uno musicians agree: “We recorded in one take. We put on ‘Rec’ and Gerardo started talking and he left us that prologue where, for the first time, he tells how he lived that moment when he discovered his diagnosis, and why Cuchi’s song has accompanied him since ‘childhood.

And they add: «We feel that he wanted to leave that moment with him as a synthesis of what we have lived together, since he opened the door of his house and his program to us. That day we were all calm, happy with the meeting, taking great care of ourselves due to the pandemic but the atmosphere of an early farewell was flying. It was a very strong moment, with a mystique that we will not forget. We experienced a beautiful musical and artistic encounter “.

Two plus one

Composed of the outstanding guitarist Marcelo Dellamea, the talented music director, producer and guitarist Hugo Dellamea, and Ariel Sánchez, percussionist, drummer and reference point for the instrument in our country, Dos Más Uno is today one of the leading root music groups .

Dos Más Uno has just returned from a successful tour of Austria, Slovenia and Sweden, where he held a dozen highly popular concerts.Recognized and praised by both local and foreign audiences, it has quickly become one of the most popular projects in new music. popular Latin American.

Possessors of considerable versatility and constant research to obtain the maximum expression of each instrument, the trio covers a vast repertoire in versions that seek to reflect their own and current vision of popular classics, of the music of contemporary authors and, of course, of the own and innovative compositions.

The group has released two albums, Two plus one (2012) and Reflexes (2018). In addition, for four years, they are part of one of the most viewed programs on Argentine television, The Fortress of Morfi (Phone). In this context, they shared live music with Fito Páez, Soledad, Antonio Tarragó Ros, Rosana, Jairo, Ismael Serrano, Jorge Fandermole, among other great artists.

Since 2012 Dos Más Uno has performed on numerous stages in Argentina and Europe, bringing his music to countries such as Austria, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Germany, Sweden and France. Sometimes they shared the stage or recordings with Chango Spasiuk, Luis Salinas, Daniel Maza, Jaques Morelenbaum, Eva Ayllón, Julia Zenko, among others.

They offered more than 30 concerts on their European tours, including the closing of Latin America Week at the Frankfurt School of Music, the Violeta Parra 100th Anniversary Tribute show at the ORF Auditorium in Vienna, sponsored by National Radio from the ‘Austria, and the opening concert of the Uppsalla Guitar Festival in Sweden, together with the prestigious Brazilian guitarist Yamandú Costa, in October 2019.

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