On December 16, Queen Margarita Vilcāne will celebrate a significant round anniversary. Daiga Mazvērsīte’s book “Blinking My Margarita”, dedicated to her life and work, has just begun its journey to readers.
It is an exciting story about how a girl who was once born in Siberia, Tomsk, became a famous singer far beyond the borders of Latvia, who enchanted millions of people with her magic of voice.
Although the artist herself did not want a book about herself, musicologist Daiga Mazvērsīte believes that she deserves it more than her huge contribution to our cultural life and deserves it, which Margarita Vilcāne has been faithful to for almost half a century, saying goodbye to her stage only. anniversary.
Raimonds Pauls’ song “White Sun” is undoubtedly one of Margarita Vilcāne’s business cards. In 1970, it won the “Microphone” poll, bringing its performers to the zenith of fame.
As Daiga Mazvērsīte writes in the introduction to the book – the light of “White Sun” abandons Margarita’s life, which has passed as a single devotion to the song.
Daiga Mazvērsīte emphasizes: “We must not forget that. We can say what would be Margarita Vilcāne without Raimonds Pauls… But – what would be the same “White Sun” without Margarita Vilcāne? It is difficult to imagine another voice at all, because it is the singers who embody the ideas written in the composer’s sheet music with the blood of their hearts, they sing these songs.
And Margarita has been working a sweat on her face all her life as an artist, and to say thank you was the least I could do with this book. ”
“Tāls Paris Radio” is one of Margarita Vilcāne’s favorite songs, the story of which can also be found in the book. It turns out that thanks to it, the address “maestro” took root in the people, with which the sad chansonet prays for more love in the song.
Daiga Mazvērsīte says: “She also had a complicated relationship with Raimonds Pauls, which, of course, also appears a little in the book. I think that maybe it is not necessary to go into the situation so much that Raimonds Pauls is leaving the Riga Stage Orchestra. But unlike some soloists, who then blamed the maestro for being abandoned, thrown out of the nest, Margarita Vilcāne was a man with a strong backbone, she started making her own solo programs, and this is something unique, because she was the first stage the singer who created her solo program. And this line is very pronounced in her work. Every four to five years, Margarita has a need for this benefice, a need to show who she is as a person, as an artist, as an actress after all, because her actress talent was also very much reflected in her musical creation. It is a pity that the film directors have appreciated it so little, only in the film “Ceplis” we saw him. “
The singer’s life reflects the historical turning points that many Latvians have experienced, but she was made a special person by her talent and grinding it to a diamond.
“It is her coming into the world in Siberia, where her ancestors went in search of land, then returning to Latvia, where she grew up as a working child and thought she might become a worker, and then accidentally became self-employed, and then these years of fame followed. rich stage artist title. And what does free Latvia give her? It is a small pension and the so-called freedom, which his materials and also musically cannot realize, ”says Daiga Mazvērsīte.
“It’s all so complicated because she did everything in her power. Of course, her collaboration with her own son Andris is also something very unique and touching. Currently Andris Margarita is the closest person, she is waiting for him as air, as water. Now he has just come from America, sitting in self-isolation and waiting for the moment when he will be able to meet his mother. It is to be hoped that on the anniversary, December 16, it will definitely happen that they will meet. “
For the title of the book, Daiga Mazvērsīte chose the line from Uldis Stabulnieks ‘song “My Margarita is Flashing” that is very appropriate for the singer’s essence, but it was more complicated with the cover photo, no version seemed really appropriate until she found Jānis Deinats’ photo.
Daiga Mazvērsīte says: “I knew that at the beginning of the 21st century Jānis Deinats had a photo session with Margarita Vilcāns, and I“ chased ”Deinats all summer to get a photo from this session. He didn’t have time, and then literally at the last minute, when the book had to go to the printing house, John allowed me to dig through his big boxes, and I really found these negatives, and there was this cover photo, which seems to me very well she is such our Mona Lisa also visually and musically.
A woman with a smile that is perhaps sad, contemplative and happy at the same time.
What she has done in our music is something incomprehensible both in terms of recordings and the number of concerts. She deserves more than one book about her life and work. ”
Daiga Mazvērsīte’s book “Mirgo mana Margarita” has just started its journey to readers, an event dedicated to the singer’s anniversary was planned in the middle of December, but now it has been moved to spring, and it is planned to see the artist’s great stage costumes.
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