Improvisación versificada y cantada en el País Vasco

IMPROVISACIÓN VERSIFICADA Y CANTADA EN EL PAÍS VASCO

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Fernando AIRE - XALBADOR

NAME-FIRST NAME : AIRE ETXART, Fernando
ALIAS : XALBADOR
DATE OF BIRTH : 19/VI/1920
PLACE : UREPEL (Lower Navarra)
DATE OF DEATH : 07/XI/ 1976 
PLACE : UREPEL (Lower Navarra)
OCCUPATION : shepherd, farmer
LIVING PLACE : UREPEL (Lower Navarra)

TYPE :  spontaneous bertsus, written bertsus

BIOGRAPHY :

His father was from Urepel, his mother was born in Los Angeles whereas his grand-mother on his mother's side was native from Aurizberri (Navarra). He married Léonie Etxebarren in 1943. They had four children. He sang his first bertsu when 16 years old, from the window of a restaurant in Urepel to the customers inside. Doctor Teodoro Hernandorena willing to boost the young bertsulari from Iparralde, organized a competition in Saint Jean de Luz, and that's how Xalbador first met Mattin. From then on,  the two of them were asked to every basque festivity.
Xalbador took part in the major bertsu championships of Donosti-Saint Sébastien.

The very day his book Odolaren mintzoa (voice from the blood) was presented, the whole Pays Basque had gathered in his native village to follow him to his last residence. Xalbador had died suddenly.

BERTSU CHAMPIONSHIPS :

  • Main championship 1962 : 3rd (Donosti-Saint Sébastien)
  • Main championship 1965 : 3rd (Donosti-Saint Sébastien)
  • Main championship 1967 : 2nd (Donosti-Saint Sébastien)

WRITTEN BERTSU CHAMPIONSHIPS :

  • Xenpelar Prize 1972 : 1st Sortetxeari (to my native house),
  • Xenpelar Prize 1973 : 1rst Gure artzain etxolari (to our shepherd's hut),
  • Xenpelar Prize 1974 : 1rst Mendian galdu direneri (to those who got lost in the mountain),
  • Xenpelar Prize 1975 : 1rst Ortzirale saindu bateko gogoetak (reflexions of a holy friday),
  • Mendaro Txirristaka 1974 : 1rst Jainkoa eta ni (God and me),
  • Mendaro Txirristaka 1975 : 1rst Pilota euskal jokoa (pelote, a bask game)
  • Mendaro Txirristaka 1976 : 1rst Ene ama zenari (to my late mother).

EDITED BOOKS :

  • Ezin bertzean, (necessarily), 1969
  • Odolaren mintzoa, (voice from the blood), 1976
  • Herria gogoan, (my village in mind), 1981

PICTURES GALLERY

These pictures can be seen on the basque culture web site
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LISTEN TO EXTRACTS

" Esperantzarik gabeko amodioa" : (desperate love)
The singer is in love with a young girl promised to another man (1975 - Singer :Xalbador)- Euskal kultur erakundea

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"Niz naiz" : improvised bertsus of Xalbador (singer : Xabier Amuriza)
(Euskal kultur erakundea)

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Mattin and Xalbador bertsularis in Baigorri (1973)
Euskal kultur erakundea

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OTHER RESSOURCES

Xalbador gives his impressions on his career as an improviser in this PDF document (traduced in spanish). The comments of this outstanding poet taken from his autobiography "Odolaren mintzoa" . You can download it (425 Ko).

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