Luis Eduardo Aute - biography, career, poetry
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Luis Eduardo Aute (born Manila, September 13, 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer-songwriter, film director, painter and poet.
Biography
Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila, capital of the Philippines, on September 13 of 1943. His father, catalan (born in Catalunya, Spain), had been working in that country since 1919, in a tobacco company and was married with a Filipina, descendent of the Spanish mestizo burguesy. In his childhood, Aude studied in De La Salle School, where he learned English and Tagalog, which is used with his family. Since very early shows great hability as painter and drawer; another childhood passion is the cinema, specially since his parents gave him a 8 mm camera, which will serve him to home made small movies with his friends.
At 8 years old travels to Spain first time. In Madrid, with Hotel Avenida Orchestra, sings for first time in public, interpreting the song Las hojas muertas (The Dead Leaves). At 9 watches "On the Waterfront", movie that had a notorious influence in him and made him to write in English his first poems. Another influence at that age is the movie Niagara, where he discovered the erotism and sensuality of Marilyn Monroe.
In 1954 after a short stay in Barcelona, returns definitively to Madrid, 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, dedicates most of his time to paint and wins a silver model in a Spanish "II Art Juvenile Contest".
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)
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