Aimé Painé
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Born | Olga Elisa Painé August 23, 1943 Ingeniero Luis A. Huergo, Argentina |
Died | September 10, 1987 Asunción, Paraguay | (aged 44)
Occupation | Singer |
Aimé Painé (August 23, 1943 — September 10, 1987), born Olga Elisa Painé, [1] was an Argentine singer of Mapuche and Tehuelche origin who dedicated herself to the rescue and diffusion of the folk music of her people.[2][3]
Life
[edit]Aimé Painé was born in 1943, at Ingeniero Luis A Huergo, in the province of Río Negro. According to some, she was the granddaughter of a Tehuelche cacique, lonco Painé Ngürü, although there is no evidence to prove it. She was legally given the forenames Olga Elisa on her birth registration due to the impossibility of registering her with a Mapuche name owing to Argentine law of that time, although she later adopted her native name, Aimé (Mapundungun for "reddish evening"), for her artistic work.[4][5][6]
According to Cristina Rafanelli, a biographer of Aimé Painé, Painé's mother, the daughter of Tehuelches, abandoned her Mapuche husband, Segundo Painé and all of their children.[7] Aimé, at the age of 3, was separated from her community because her father, needing to work, could not take care of so many children. She was sent to an orphanage - nun school, the Unzué Institute of Mar del Plata, far away from her land and culture.[8] She excelled in the Gregorian chant choir, eagerly waiting for the Holy Week and Corpus Christi festivities, because it was the time to interpret the Gregorian chants which the nuns taught her.[9]
Paine was adopted by lawyer and playwright Héctor Llan de Rosos and his wife. There, she studied music with private teachers: guitar with Roberto Lara, and singing with Blanca Peralta and Nina Kabanciwa.[10] Painé moved to Buenos Aires, working as a hairdresser, weaver and assistant to the painter Roberto Ramaugé.[11]
In 1973, she joined the Coro Nacional Polifónico (National Polyphonic Choir).[12] During an international meeting of choirs in Mar del Plata, she felt dismayed; each country had prepared at least one piece of indigenous or folkloric music, except for the Argentine choir. This event led her in a journey back to her hometown and heritage, where Aimé met her biological father and brothers and learned more of her origins. Learning about the Taiel, a Mapuche tune that one of the many village grandmothers (machis), grandmother Domitila, interpreted in Mapudungun, she said it reminded the Gregorian chant she learned in the orphanage, a stripped down song, as free and natural as it was religious; it was singing of life.[13]
She then decided to present her Mapuche culture to the world, performing in traditional Mapuche wear and playing traditional instruments such as the trompe, the cultrun, the cascahuillas, and mentioning the use of the trutruca and the kull kull.[14] Painé travelled to England and Switzerland, presenting the Mapuche music and culture, and denouncing the marginalization of indigenous peoples in Argentina.[15]
She died in Asunción, Paraguay, aged 44, after suffering a brain aneurysm during a recording.[16][17] Her body was buried in her hometown, alongside that of her father, who died soon after she did.[18]
Homages
[edit]There are libraries, schools, complexes, choirs and streets in the province of Río Negro named after her, as well as a street of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires.[19][20][21][22]
A picture of her is also part of the Women's Hall in the Casa Rosada, the official residence of the President of Argentina.[23][24]
In 2021, a four-episode biographical series about her was filmed in Patagonia, produced, directed, and scripted by filmmaker Aymará Rovera. Aimé Painé was played by Charo Bogarín.[25]
On 23 August 2021, Google honored Painé with a doodle on what would be her 78th birthday.[26]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mujeres Argentinas que tenés que conocer". cultura.gob.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ Sánchez, Sergio (21 August 2020). "Una miniserie repasa la historia de Aimé Painé | La dirige Aymará Rovera y la protagoniza Charo Bogarín". PAGINA12. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Miniserie de estreno celebra el cumpleaños de Aimé Painé". telam.com.ar. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Significado de aime y su definicion en el diccionario español". www.significadode.org. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- ^ "¿Quién fue Aimé Painé, la voz del pueblo mapuche?". Diario Río Negro (in European Spanish). 14 January 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "En memoria de Aime Paine, valiente luchadora mapuche". mapuche-nation.org. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Aimé Painé | Perfiles". CFI - Revista El Faro. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Con un show en viso se presentó la serie "Aimé. Homenaje a la vida de Aimé Painé"". Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ Diario, El (22 August 2020). "Miniserie de estreno celebra el cumpleaños de Aimé Painé". El Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Aimé Painé, la mensajera". historiahoy.com. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Quién era Aimé Painé, la princesa mapuche que recordó el doodle de hoy". infobae.com. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Homenaje a Aimé Painé a 26 años de su fallecimiento". Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Aimé Painé, voz y canto, tragedia y memoria, todo en un libro/Por Carlos Espinosa – APP – Agencia de noticias Patagónica" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Aimé Painé, voz mapuche". NODAL Cultura (in Spanish). 4 September 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Aimé Painé (Olga Elisa Painé)". pueblosoriginarios.com. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ Conti, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo. "Aimé, la guerrera". Revista Haroldo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ RosarioPlus. "La miniserie gratuita sobre Aimé Painé, artista mapuche y feminista". RosarioPlus. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ Barriada (9 September 2019). "10 de septiembre Día de la Cultura Mapuche en la Ciudad". Barriada (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ Aires, Ente de Turismo del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos (2 March 2020). "Las mujeres de Puerto Madero". Sitio oficial de turismo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ ElCordillerano. "Historia política a la gorra en la biblioteca Aimé Painé | El Cordillerano". www.elcordillerano.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Avellaneda Virtual - Escuela Secundaria N°35 - Edificio Municipal Aimé Painé". www.mda.gob.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Aimé Paine, de Río Negro: "Una luchadora incansable por los derechos de su pueblo"". Más Río Negro (in Spanish). 4 February 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "La Presidenta inauguró el Salón Mujeres Argentinas en Casa de Gobierno". casarosada.gob.ar. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Alberto Fernández reinaugura el Salón de las Mujeres en la Casa Rosada". www.ambito.com. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ Sánchez, Sergio (21 August 2020). "Una miniserie repasa la historia de Aimé Painé | La dirige Aymará Rovera y la protagoniza Charo Bogarín". PAGINA12. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ "78.º aniversario del nacimiento de Aimé Painé". Google. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
External links
[edit]- 1943 births
- 1987 deaths
- People from Ingeniero Luis A. Huergo
- Spanish-language singers
- Argentine folk singers
- Argentine people of Mapuche descent
- Argentine people of Tehuelche descent
- 20th-century Argentine women singers
- Mapuche women
- 20th-century indigenous women of the Americas
- Mapuche singers
- 20th-century Mapuche people
- Tehuelche people