Dota (singer)
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Dota Kehr
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| caption = Kehr in 2019
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| birth_name = Dorothea Kehr
| alias = Dota Kehr, Kleingeldprinzessin
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|9|14}}
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| origin = Berlin, Germany
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| occupation = singer-songwriter
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| years_active = 2003–present
| label = Kleingeldprinzessin Rec.
| associated_acts = Dota und die Stadtpiraten
| website = {{URL|http://kleingeldprinzessin.de/}}
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Dota Kehr (born Dorothea Kehr; {{IPA|de|doʁoˈteːa ˈkeːɐ̯}}, born 1979; also known as Kleingeldprinzessin) is a singer-songwriter from Berlin and the leader of the musical group Dota und die Stadtpiraten ("Urban Pirates") who writes and performs music influenced by bossa nova and jazz. Her records have been self-published on her own Kleingeldprinzessin Records (Pocket-Change Princess Records) label and distributed by Broken Silence. In October 2006, she performed five concerts in Russia upon the invitation of the Goethe Institute and in the spring of 2009 she toured New Zealand.
File:Bardentreffen 2014 Sa 2664.JPG Bardentreffen festival]]
Personal and professional life
Kehr grew up in the Berlin neighborhoods of Ruhleben, Zehlendorf und Schöneberg.{{cite web|title=Hier klingt ein anderes Berlin|periodical=|publisher=Der Tagesspiegel|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/eine-begegnung-mit-musikerin-dota-kehr-hier-klingt-ein-anderes-berlin/13492014.html|url-status=|access-date=2019-09-01|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Sven Goldmann|date=2016-04-24|language=|pages=|quote=}} As a child she played the saxophone and at 14 started performing in the public markets. Only at 21 did she begin to learn to play the guitar. She then went on to gain experience with street music, and because of this she was known by her artist name of Kleingeldprinzessin (Pocket-Change Princess). Her early work was influenced by bossa nova. Her love of South American music came from her childhood, especially a cassette left behind by a Brazilian babysitter: Elis & Tom (Elis Regina and Tom Jobim, 1974).
in 2003, Dota Kehr Wants Join to Jan Rohrbach.
Kehr studied medicine in Berlin and graduated in 2010, but went on to live and record music in Brazil and Ecuador.{{cite web|title=Interview mit Dota Kehr|periodical=|publisher=schallplattenmann.de|url=http://schallplattenmann.de/a118070-Interview-mit-Dota-Kehr.htm|url-status=|access-date=2015-04-03|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Peter Gruner, Dota Kehr|date=2009-05-18|language=|pages=|quote=}}
The 2010 album Bis auf den Grund (Down to the Bottom) starts to show strong influence from folk rock music and elements of jazz.{{cite news|title=Montagsinterview: Dota Kehr, Musikerin "Straßenmusik hat etwas Trotziges"|periodical=|publisher=taz.de|url=http://www.taz.de/1/berlin/berliner-koepfe/artikel/1/strassenmusik-hat-etwas-trotziges/|url-status=|format=|access-date=2015-04-03|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Thomas Winkler, Dota Kehr|newspaper=Die Tageszeitung: Taz|date=2010-04-12|language=|pages=|quote=}}
Kehr has two children, born in 2011 and 2013.{{cite web|title=Die Kleingeldprinzessin wird groß|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://www.emma.de/artikel/dota-auf-tour-331675|url-status=|format=|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=de|pages=|quote=}}{{cite web|title=Die Fee und der Frieden: Die Berliner Liedermacherin Dota Kehr im Jazzhaus|periodical=|publisher=badische-zeitung.de|url=http://www.badische-zeitung.de/rock-pop-rezensionen/die-fee-und-der-frieden--67325661.html|url-status=|access-date=2015-04-03|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Christian Rath|date=2012-12-21|language=|pages=|quote=}}
Discography
- Kleingeldprinzessin (2003)
- Mittelinselurlaub (2003)
- Taschentöne – live (2004)
- Blech + Plastik (2005)
- Immer nur Rosinen (2006)
- In anderen Räumen – live (2008)
- Schall und Schatten (2009)
- Bis auf den Grund (2010)
- Solo Live (2011)
- Das große Leuchten (2011)
- Wo soll ich suchen (2013)
- Keine Gefahr (2016)
- Überall Konfetti – live (2016)
- Die Freiheit (2018)
- Kaléko (2020)
- Wir Rufen Dich, Galaktika (2021)
- Einfach So Verloren (2021)
References
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Sources
- [http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/04/02/a0246.1/text.ges,1 taz, 2. April 2004 (Berlin lokal, S. 28)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091112185426/http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2006/0928/lokales/0095/index.html Berliner Zeitung, 28. September 2006 (Lokales, S. 28)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080401112721/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/;art772,2226785 Tagesspiegel Online, 26. September 2006]
- [http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/profil/575615/ Deutschlandradio Kultur, 20. December 2006]
External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.kleingeldprinzessin.de}}
- {{DNB-Portal|TYP=Sound carrier of|NAME=Dota, die Kleingeldprinzessin & die Stadtpiraten|10337254-4}}
- [http://www.mittenzwischendrin.de Dota und Die Stadtpiraten]
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Category:German bossa nova singers
Category:21st-century German women singers
Category:German women singer-songwriters