Eduardo Mateo was a Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an singer, songwriter, guitarist and arranger. He played a key role in the development of the modern Uruguayan music mixing beat

Beat music

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, jazz

Jazz

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, bossa nova

Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially consisting of young musicians and college students...

 and local rhythms like candombe

Candombe

Candombe is a musical genre that has its roots in the African Bantu, and is proper of Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil .Uruguayan Candombe is the most practiced and spread internationally and has been recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity...

, in a similar way than Brazilian Tropicalismo

Tropicalismo

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Musicians like Academy Award winner Jorge Drexler

Jorge Drexler

Jorge Drexler is an Uruguayan musician and actor.In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award...

 cited Mateo as a big influence.
Artists like Fattoruso Trio, Jaime Roos

Jaime Roos

Jaime Roos is an Uruguayan singer, composer and record producer. In 2000 he won a Silver Condor Award for Best Score Musician in El Amateur.- Discography :*Candombe del 31 *Para espantar el sueño...

, Sandra Mihanovich

Sandra Mihanovich

Sandra Mihanovich Cahen is an Argentine singer, musician, and composer of Rock, Blues, and Tango rhythms.She was born in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of Iván Mihanovich Nazar, a polo player of Croatian descent -and heir to a shipping fortune- and Mónica Cahen...

, Pedro Aznar

Pedro Aznar

Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician, with a lifetime of experience in jazz, Argentinian folk music, and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius...

, Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento

-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

 , Leon Gieco

León Gieco

Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, better known as León Gieco is a pop-folk music composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentine rock, and for lyrics with social and political connotations...

, Mio Matsuda, Tomohiro Yahiro, etc have covered his songs.

Discography

• Mateo solo bien se lame (De la planta Argentina. 1972)
• Mateo solo bien se lame (De la planta KL 8317. 1972)
• Cuerpo y alma (Sondor
  Sondor
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   84332 y 44332, Cassette tapes and vinil disc 1984)
• La Máquina del Tiempo presenta a: Mateo / Mal tiempo sobre Alchemia (1er. viaje) (Ayuí / Tacuabé a/e69k. 1987)
• La Máquina del Tiempo / La mosca (Orfeo 91032-4 y 91032-1, Cassette tapes and vinil disc 1989)
• La Máquina del Tiempo / 3er. viaje, 1ª parte: Ida (1971 - 1984) (Ayuí / Tacuabé ae133cd. 1995)
• La Máquina del Tiempo / 3er. viaje, 2ª parte: Vuelta (1983 - 1988) (Ayuí / Tacuabé ae134cd. 1995)
• El Tartamudo (2000)