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La figura del padre, falegname, uomo geloso, spesso violento, amante del gioco e del vino, si contrapponeva a quella della madre, donna semplice e buona. Rosa fu la primogenita ed ebbe due sorelle e un fratello, disabile dalla nascita.
Il sostegno della famiglia proveniva dal ricavato di piccoli lavori di falegnameria del padre, il principale dei quali consisteva nel riparare le sedie, attività che svolgeva andando spesso anche nei paesi vicini, Palma di Montechiaro, Butera, Riesi.
Rosa aiutava il padre percorrendo in lungo e in largo la città a piedi nudi in tutte le stagioni carica delle sedie che portava customers.
As a child he devoted himself to the most menial activities: he served at the homes of wealthy families and went to work in the conservation of fish in the Salt neighborhood, where at that time ruled the dirt and smells, in the summer, went with his father to glean for the sunny fields, bringing home a few handfuls of grain to feed the family a few days.
In these difficult conditions, Rosa unloaded his rage and his uncomfortable singing out loud along the streets of the Marina.
After the war, Rosa moved for a time with his family in nearby Campobello di Licata and the father devoted himself to the usual work to "fix" of chairs (siggiari).
still remember the older songs with that husky voice that rang through the streets.
In that time he met an Italian-American maid to fall in love, but the short story ended with the departure of American troops. Back in
Licata family after fifteen years began to be called to sing in church during baptisms and marriages for the first time wearing shoes.
He could not marry her cousin because Angelino's future mother-in-law claimed the kit that Rosa's family could not afford and at sixteen was married to "Iachinuzzu" you during a show in Licata, called "latru, and jucaturi 'mbriacuni. Married life was still
the most miserable and degrading to the delay in her family of origin, so as to bring it, in desperation, to assault with a file in her husband's house away Martinez, following the discovery of the loss to the game of her daughter's trousseau. Believing he had killed him, went to build up the police, also facing the jail.
After six months in prison, Rose to keep herself and her daughter, went to work at a glass factory, but it did work for a short time, because of harassment by the owner. Rosa began to collect and sell as snails, capers, prickly pears, and in suitable time, salted sardines in the warehouses of Salt. Thanks to the interest of
a relative showed up at Rosa the opportunity to travel to Palermo in the service of a noble family. But his already difficult life even kept the bitter and painful experience: the son of wealthy owners and got her pregnant, moved by the many illusions that fed to the young man was pushed by him to steal money in the parental home. Discovery, fled in Sondrio in the sanatorium where he was hospitalized mother. It was found, arrested and sentenced to six months in prison which he served in Palermo.
release from prison, desperate, she was forced, even if pregnant, to live as a nomad sleeping on the seats of the station or outside the hospital, until he was greeted by a friend midwife who helped her give birth. Il suo bambino però nacque morto.
Ripresasi dalle fatiche del parto, aiutata dall'amica, andò al servizio del conte Testa, acquistando una certa serenità, potè così sistemare la propria figlioletta in collegio a Palermo e imparò a leggere e scrivere.
Dopo un breve periodo dovette abbandonare la casa del conte, che tuttavia continuò a proteggerla, procurandole il lavoro di sagrestana e custode della chiesa degli Agonizzanti.
Viveva in un sottoscala insieme a suo fratello Vincenzo, invalido, che faceva il calzolaio. Quando la chiesa venne affidata a un nuovo prete, le cose peggiorarono: il prete, infatti, mostrò di avere un interesse "particolare" nei suoi riguardi; Rosa non cedette e fu mandata via, but before he emptied the boxes and almsgiving so he could buy a train ticket for himself and his brother Vincenzo, without a precise destination. The trip would then be completed and returned to Florence to Palermo only twenty years later, when his life had changed course.
In Florence's brother Vincent opened a shoemaker's shop and Rosa got a job in the service of a distinguished Florentine family. Rose won a degree of calm so as to enable it to recall all his family. But Mary's sister, married, stayed in Licata. Maria Rosa reached only later, when he escaped from Licata to escape with the children who bullied her husband, raggiuntala, la uccise. A seguito di questa tragedia il padre di Rosa si tolse la vita impiccandosi.
Superati questi dolorosi avvenimenti per Rosa iniziò una periodo di serenità: incontrò il pittore Manfredi, con cui visse per dodici anni, che le diede tanto amore e la possibilità di conoscere grandi personaggi della cultura e dell'arte.
Tra i tanti conobbe Mario De Micheli che, estasiato della sua voce, le diede la possibilità di incidere il suo primo disco con la Casa Discografica Ricordi, evento che segnò l'inizio della sua vita artistica.
A Bologna conobbe il poeta dialettale Ignazio Buttitta (che per lei avrebbe poi scritto numerose liriche) e il cantastorie Ciccio Busacca, con i quali instaurò una sincera amicizia. Thanks to these acquaintances was able to enter more fully into the world of entertainment. Known Dario For in 1966 he took part in his show "There I speak and sing."
His work continued with concerts at the Teatro Carignano in Turin, the Manzoni in Milan and Metastasio in Prato, alternated with performances in various forums and seminars on popular music in some universities.
After the adventure with his Manfredi, who left her for a model, Rose became depressed and attempted suicide, fortunately, was rescued and had to call up all his strength and his courage because it was waiting for another test of his troubled life: his only daughter had run away from college and one day presented itself pregnant.
Rosa "rolled up his sleeves" and asked friends to help the Communist Party, which enabled her to perform in the Unity Party in various cities.
the late sixties he played in Florence, the Teatro Stabile di Catania, and then decided to go to Sicily. Rosa returned so no longer as useful, but as an artist surrounded by established important friends, artists, writers and politicians, and held many shows in different cities of Sicily.
He consequently had to return to the places of his childhood and his bitter youth, as well as Licata Campobello di Licata was also where he gave an audience at the cinema theater Italy with great success. In 1973 he participated
Festival of San Remo with the song in Italian "Earth does not feel" but it was excluded in the early evening, officially because the song was not unusual, in fact, because his kind of music was considered old-fashioned. Established in Palermo
definitely in the house of Mary Mediatrix away, he continued his acting and singing to the activities of Biondo in Palermo "The Ballad of salt", a show specially written for her by Salvo Licata, to which Rose would then be asked to write his biography, which does not, however, was never realized.
In the eighties, around Italy, attended the show with Anna Proclemer "La Lupa" adapted from the novel by Giovanni Verga.
It's part of his theatrical experience participating in "The Long Night of Medea," directed by Corrado Alvaro and "Eumeneidi" on Gibellina; to Biondo di Palermo still recited in "Bambulè" Salvo Licata.
1987 was for the Rose Art last summer as a stage actress. As a songwriter continued to wander around the world: in Sweden, Germany, America, collecting applause and appreciation.
the late eighties Rosa settled in Florence affecting some records and participating in various folk performances. A Licata came a year before his death, and on this occasion he performed a show in Piazza Sant'Angelo. Several flaws in the organization, caused his disappointment that publicly expressed herself as she used to do with his outspoken character, outspoken. During his stay in Cantavenera Giuseppe Licata wrote his biography.
Rosa died in Palermo Villa Sofia hospital, suffered a stroke while attending a performance in Calabria.
The memory of Rose is still alive in the memory of the people licatese that every year pays homage through a "Memorial" named after her.
text written by Augusto La Paglia Pierina
Most of the news about the singer have been taken from the book "Rosa Balistreri. The last storyteller" who publicly thank Calogero Charity. Precious
fonti sono state i periodici locali La Vedetta e La Campana, che spesso pubblicano notizie su Rosa Balistreri, nonchè le testimonianze dirette di persone che l'hanno conosciuta come il dottor Vincenzo Marrali.
Le foto sono tratte dal sito rosabalistreri.it
Discografia
•La voce della Sicilia (1967, Tauro Record)
•Un matrimonio infelice (1967, Tauro Record)
•La cantatrice del Sud (1973, RCA ried. de La voce della Sicilia)
•Amore tu lo sai la vita è amara (1971, Cetra Folk)
•Terra che non senti (1973, Cetra Folk)
•Noi siamo nell'inferno carcerati (1974, Cetra Folk)
•Amuri senza amuri (1974, Folk Cetra)
• Vinni to cantari all'ariu scuvertu (1978, Folk Cetra)
• Christmas Concert (1985 PDR)
• Rosa Balistreri (1996, Teatro del Sole - ried. In CD The Voice of Sicily)
• An unhappy marriage (1997, Teatro del Sole - ried. CD)
• Rare and Unpublished (1997, Teatro del Sole)
• Love You know life is bitter (2000, Teatro del Sole - ried. CD)
• Earth that you can not hear (2000, Teatro del Sole - ried. CD)
• We are prisoners in hell (2000, Teatro del Sole - ried. in CD) • Vinni
to cantari all'ariu scuvertu (2000, Teatro del Sole - ried. in CD) •
the Collection ... irradiates duluru lu, the passion (2004 Lucky Planets)
Adapted from Wikipedia
Some video
Resources Rosa Balistreri
• balistrerirosa.it - \u200b\u200bSite maintained by Luca Torregrossa
• rosabalistreri.it - \u200b\u200bTheatre of the Sun
• Wikipedia •
IRSAP-agrigentum.it - \u200b\u200bAudio file to download
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