Luis Eduardo Aute
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Luis Eduardo Aute
is a Spanish
Spanish people
The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....

 musician, singer-songwriter, film director, painter and poet.

First years in the Philippines

Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila
Manila
Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

, the capital of the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

, on September 13, 1943. His father, a Catalan
Catalan people
The Catalans or Catalonians are the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia that form a historical nationality in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France are sometimes included in this definition...

 (from Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain
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), had been working in that country since 1919, for a tobacco company, and was married to a Filipina
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 of Spanish descent
Spanish people
The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....

. In his childhood, Aute studied at the De La Salle
De La Salle
De La Salle is the name of several educational institutions affiliated with the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the Lasallian Brothers, a Roman Catholic religious teaching order founded by French priest Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle:* Lasallian educational...

 School, where he learned English and Tagalog
Tagalog language
Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest. It is the first language of the Philippine region IV and of Metro Manila...

, which is used within his family. At an early age he showed great ability as a painter and sketcher. Another childhood passion was cinema; his interest in filmmaking was abetted by his parents' giving him an 8 mm camera, which he used to produce home-made movies with his friends.

At 8 years old, he traveled to Spain for the first time. In Madrid, with the Hotel Avenida Orchestra, he sang for the first time in public, interpreting the song Las hojas muertas (The Dead Leaves). At age 9 he watched "On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Karl Malden. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard...

", a movie that had a powerful influence on him and inspired him to write his first poems in English. Another cinematic influence at that age was the movie Niagara
Niagara (1953 film)
Niagara is a 1953 thriller-film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and introducing Marilyn Monroe. Unlike other film noirs of the time, Niagara was shot in Technicolor on location and was one of 20th Century Fox's biggest box-office hits of the year.-Plot:Ray...

, where he discovered the eroticism and sensuality of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....

.

Return of the family to Spain

In 1954 after a short stay in Barcelona
Barcelona
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, returns definitively to Madrid
Madrid
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, where Luis Eduardo studies in the "Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas" (Catholic based School). At 15 years old, with his new bithday present guitar, he performed in end of School party in a Trio with other two school mates. In those years and very influences by the German Expressionism
German Expressionism
German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s...

, dedicates most of his time to paint and wins a silver model in a Spanish "II Art Juvenile Contest".

Discography

  • Diálogos de Rodrigo y Gimena (RCA-Victor, 1968)
  • 24 Canciones Breves (1967-68) (RCA-Victor, 1968)
  • Álbum 1966-67 (1972)
  • Rito (Ariola, 1973)
  • Espuma (Ariola, 1974)
  • Babel (Ariola, 1975)
  • Sarcófago (Ariola, 1976)
  • Forgesound (Ariola, 1977)
  • Albanta (Ariola, 1978)
  • De Par en Par (Ariola, 1979)
  • Alma (Movieplay, 1980)
  • Fuga (Movieplay, 1981)
  • Entre Amigos (Movieplay, 1983)
  • Cuerpo a Cuerpo (Ariola, 1984)
  • Nudo (Ariola, 1985)
  • 20 Canciones de Amor y un Poema Desesperado (Ariola, 1986)
  • Templo (Ariola, 1987)
  • Segundos Fuera (Ariola, 1989)
  • Ufff! (Ariola, 1991)
  • Slowly (Ariola, 1992)
  • Mano a Mano
    Mano a mano (Silvio Rodríguez y Luis Eduardo Aute)
    Mano a Mano is collaboration album from the singer-songwriters Luis Eduardo Aute and Silvio Rodriguez from Spain and Cuba respectively.Recorded live in Madrid on September 24, 1993.-Disc 1:#"Anda"...

    (Ariola, 1993)
  • Alevosía (Virgin, 1995)
  • Paseo por el amor y el deseo (1996)
  • Aire/Invisible (Virgin, 1998)
  • Querencias (2001)
  • Alas y Balas (Virgin, 2003)
  • Auterretratos Vol. 1 (BMG Ariola, 2003)
  • Auterretratos Vol. 2 (BMG Ariola, 2005)
  • A día de hoy (BMG Ariola, 2007)
  • Auterretratos 3 (BMG Ariola, 2009)

Singles

  • Don Ramón / Made in Spain (RCA-Victor, 1967)
  • Aleluya nº 1 / Rojo sobre negro (RCA-Victor, 1967)
  • Al-leluia nº1 / Roig damunt el (negro) (RCA-Victor, 1967)
  • Mi tierra, mi gente / Los ojos (RCA-Victor, 1968)
  • Los burgueses / Me miraré en tu cuerpo (RCA-Victor, 1968)
  • Clamo al firmamento (Aleluya nº 2) / Ausencia / Labrador (RCA-Victor, 1968)
  • Yo pertenezco / Dónde estará la verdad (RCA-Victor, 1968)
  • Tiempo de amores / Sí, sí, señor (RCA-Victor, 1968)

Poem books

  • La matemática del espejo (Edició Ángel Caffarena, Málaga, 1975)
  • Canciones y poemas (Demófilo, 1976)
  • La liturgia del desorden (Hiperión, Madrid, 1978)
  • Canciones (Hiperión, Madrid, 1980. Edición revisada, 1988)
  • Templo de carne (1986)
  • Canciones 2 (Hiperión, Madrid, 1991)
  • Animal (Disco-libro) (Editorial El Europeo/Allegro, Madrid, 1994)
  • Animal Dos (Libro-Vídeo) (Plaza/Janés, Madrid, 1999)
  • Cuerpo del delito. Canciones (1966-1999) (Celeste, Madrid, 1999)
  • Volver al agua. Poesía completa (1970-2002) (Sial, Colección Contrapunto, Madrid, 2002)

Filmography

  • Senses (cortometraje, 1961)
  • Minutos después (cortometraje, 1970)
  • Chapuza 1 (1971)
  • A flor de piel, (cortometraje, 1975)
  • In Memoriam
    In Memoriam (film)
    In Memoriam is the 1977 Spanish directorial debut of Enrique Brasó. The film is based on a story by the Argentine writer, Adolfo Bioy Casares. The film explores the thwarted romance between Julio and Paulina . Brasó collaborated with Chaplin again, as a writer in In the City Without Limits and...

    (1977)
  • El vivo retrato
  • El muro de las lamentaciones, (cortometraje, 1986).
  • La pupila del éxtasis (1989)
  • Un perro llamado Dolor (2001)

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