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Dota (c) Sandra Ludewig
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Dota Kehr comes from Berlin and is also known as the ‘Princess of Small Change’, a tag she brought back from travelling the world as a street musician. Her songs sound like Bossa Nova and pocket Swing, like Reggae and Surf-Rock, and her lyrics tell stories about social conditions in the glasshouse and love as a bonbon – sweet and constantly dissolving – with lightness and a witty way with words.
Dota’s first CD came out in 2003, self-produced and on her own label, Kleingeldprinzessin Records. It attracted some attention and appearances on radio and television followed. In 2011 she was awarded the German Cabaret Prize. In 2003 she recorded an album in Brazil with Danilo Guilherme. In 2006 she was invited by the Goethe Institute to go to Russia, in 2009 to New Zealand and in 2010 to Central Asia. Another CD followed, produced in 2007 in São Paulo, with a tour through Brazil, where a compilation was released on the label of musician Chico César.
“Dota sets criticism of consumerism and yearning to music with more poetry than almost anybody in the German-language music business,” wrote the ZEIT newspaper, “as tenderly, wittily and socially critical as Tucholsky in the Twenties.”
Dota will be appearing at the Poetry Market as a duo with her guitarist Jan Rohrbach.
Discography:
Die Kleingeldprinzessin (Berlin, 2003)
Mittelinselurlaub – Perto da Estrada (Fortaleza, 2003)
Taschentöne live (Berlin, 2004)
Blech und Plastik (Berlin, 2005)
Immer nur Rosinen (Berlin, 2006)
In anderen Räumen (Berlin, 2008)
Schall und Schatten – som e sombra (São Paulo, 2009)
Bis auf den Grund (Berlin 2010)
Dota solo live (Berlin 2011)
Das große Leuchten (Berlin 2011)
Wo soll ich suchen (Berlin 2013)