Dota (singer)

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Dota 2014 at the Bardentreffen in Nuremberg

Dota , also Dota Kehr and former change princess ( Dorothea Kehr ; born September 14, 1979 in West Berlin ) is a German songwriter and music producer . The medical student is the front woman of the Berlin band Dota and Die Stadtpiraten , which has only been called Dota since 2013 .

Life and professional history

Dota Kehr spent childhood and youth in the Berlin districts of Ruhleben, Zehlendorf and Schöneberg. She first played the saxophone and began performing at fairs when she was 14. It wasn't until the age of 21 that she learned to play the guitar. At first she gained experience with street music; Until the mid-2000s, she was therefore also known under the stage name Kleing Changeprinzessin . These early recordings were influenced by bossa nova . The love for South American music stems from her childhood. A Brazilian babysitter left a tape for the Kehr family: Elis & Tom ( Elis Regina and Tom Jobim , 1974). Dota Kehr was able to sing along to the lyrics by heart without actually understanding Portuguese. She later learned to speak the Portuguese language fluently.

Dota Kehr studied medicine in Berlin and graduated in 2010. In 2003 she received a scholarship to study abroad in Brazil . In Fortaleza she recorded a record with Danilo Guilherme (Central Island Vacation) . Later she lived in São Paulo with the guitarist Regis Damasceno, who plays on this record. She then lived in Ecuador for a while . She recorded the album Schall und Schatten with Brazilian musicians, u. a. with the singer Chico César .

The 2010 album Bis auf der Grund is more influenced by folk rock and elements from jazz and fair music. On the 2012 released debut album The imagination will prevail by Max prose it is the song Until home Prosas duet partner.

It has been part of the reading dune since the beginning of 2019 .

Dota Kehr has two children who were born in 2011 and 2013.

Loose Change Princess Records

Loose change princess goes back to her stage name as a street musician , which she used until the mid-2000s. Dota founded her own label Kleingeldprinzessin Records , on which, in addition to her own albums, productions by other artists (e.g. Uta Köbernick ) appear. Kehr takes care of the design, merchandising and large parts of the distribution of your CDs. She awarded her doctorate to an agency. In March 2011 the CD Dota - Solo Live was also released on this label with songs, some of which were still unreleased, and two spoken texts.

Dota 2014 at the song festival at Waldeck Castle

Awards

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Where should i look
  DE 57 09/16/2013 (1 week)
No danger
  DE 14th 01/22/2016 (2 weeks)
The freedom
  DE 11 09/21/2018 (2 weeks)
Kaléko
  DE 13 04/10/2020 (8 weeks)
  AT 54 April 17, 2020 (1 week)
  • 2003: Change princess
  • 2003: Central Island Vacation - Perto da Estrada (as Dota & Dan, with Danilo Guilherme)
  • 2004: Taschentöne - live (Dota and the city pirates)
  • 2005: Blech + Plastik (Dota and the city pirates)
  • 2006: Always raisins (as change princess)
  • 2008: In other rooms - live (Dota and the city pirates)
  • 2009: Schall und Schatten (with Brazilian musicians)
  • 2010: Down to the Ground (Dota and the City Pirates)
  • 2011: Solo live (solo)
  • 2011: The great glow - live (Dota and the city pirates)
  • 2013: Where should I look
  • 2016: no danger
  • 2016: Confetti everywhere - live
  • 2018: Freedom
  • 2020: Kaléko

The name Dota and the city pirates has not been used since 2013, but Dota still performs with band musicians.

Compilations

  • 2008: Dota de Berlin (only Dota compilation released in Brazil)
  • 2010: In the glass house (with Fanfara Kalashnikov , on Berlin Global 2010/11 )
  • 2012: In the garden ( here today, there tomorrow - salute to Hannes Wader )
  • 2012: A beautiful song , utopia (on Franz Josef Degenhardt - friends celebrate his work )
  • 2013: Lullaby (on The Gathering of the Islands - SAGO sings Stählin )
  • 2013: Rarely but sometimes (at 40 Hamburg kitchen sessions )
  • 2016: All day long (on Under my bed 2 )

Features

  • 2008: My beautiful Berlin (on the album Cheeky Tattoos on very young bankers from Dziuk's kitchen )
  • 2011: Gewitterlied (with Sebastian Krämer on his album Akademie der Sehnsucht )
  • 2012: Up to the house (with Max Prosa on his album Die Fantasie will win )
  • 2018: what for, what for, what for? (with Max Prosa on his album Heimkehr )

Web links

Commons : Dota (singer)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Goldmann: A different Berlin sounds here. Der Tagesspiegel , April 24, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Peter Gruner, Dota Kehr: Interview with Dota Kehr. schallplattenmann.de, May 18, 2009, accessed on April 3, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b Thomas Winkler, Dota Kehr: Monday interview: Dota Kehr, musician "Street music has something defiant". taz.de , April 12, 2010, accessed April 3, 2015 .
  4. ↑ The reading dune: The reading dune in January. With DOTA! In: The reading dune. November 12, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The change princess is growing up. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Christian Rath: The fairy and the peace: The Berlin songwriter Dota Kehr in the Jazzhaus. badische-zeitung.de , December 21, 2012, accessed on April 3, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Wenzel receives this year's song award. News from the Neue Musikzeitung from October 23, 2008 (accessed on August 27, 2011)
  8. ↑ Best list 2-2016 , accessed on October 14, 2017.
  9. ↑ Chart sources: Germany Austria
personal data
SURNAME Dota
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sweep, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin