Celebrity Biographies

Luis Eduardo Aute

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2 years ago

December 3, 2022

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He is remembered as one of the great singer-songwriters in the history of Spain, for his excellent lyrics, and for his special connection with the public. But he was also a painter, writer, poet, filmmaker and even an actor. Luis Eduardo Aute died on April 4, 2020, at the age of 76, in a Madrid hospital. He had been away from the stage for some time, after a heart attack that in 2016 kept him in a coma for months.

Born on September 13, 1943, in Manila (Philippines), Luis Eduardo Aute moved to Spain with his father, a Catalan, and his mother, a Filipina, at the age of eight. After a time in Barcelona, he moved to Madrid, where he would settle permanently. At 16 he was already inaugurating his first painting exhibition. After leaving the School of Surveyors, he moved to Paris, where he was dazzled by French culture, both by the cinematographic ‘nouvelle vague’, and by singer-songwriters such as George Brassens and the Belgian Jacques Brel . He came to work under the orders of film masters Max Ophuls , Jean-Luc Godard and Joseph L. Mankiewicz , during the filming of Cleopatra .

In 1968 he married María del Carmen Rosado, known as Marichu, with whom he would have three children. “In that year no one married anymore. That’s why I did it,” he confessed in an interview, while taking a drag on a cigarette, a vice that he considered “essential.” Always friendly, polite, tender, and a bit ‘scoundrel’, they brought fashions to him when it came to dressing. “Sometimes I go out without combing my hair, of course, always clean and neat,” he confessed. “What I never wear is a tie. I once had to rent a tuxedo in Paris because I was made a debutant Knight at the Paris Opera.”

In 1984 he published the album “Cuerpo a cuerpo”, which includes such well-known songs as “Cinema, cine”, which has since become a hymn for moviegoers. But also, he stood out in the field of the big screen. At the age of 19, he wrote a movie script, and submitted a twenty-minute short film to the “Primer Plano” magazine contest. He also wrote “The Last Throes”, a book with texts, poems and scripts, and signed the short film Senses . He occasionally appeared as an actor, for example he was a French musician in Días de viejo color , by Pedro Olea .