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Mamonas Assassinas (usually translated into Spanish as Mamonas Asesinas) was a Brazilian Alternative Rock band. Its name actually means Killer Castor Beans (the Portuguese word mamona refers to the castor bean plant).
The band was successful in 1995 among children and adolescents. With a single studio album —homonymous, released in July 1995—, the group managed to sell more than three million copies throughout Brazil, granting them diamond disc certification that same year by the Brazilian Association of Music Producers. Records. This album included humorous lyrics, such as "Pelados em Santos", "Robocop Gay", "Vira-Vira", "1406" and "Mundo animal", which led it to full success.
Their career came to a tragic end on March 2, 1996, when the plane they were traveling in crashed into Serra da Cantareira, in the north of the city of São Paulo. All the members of the group died instantly, as well as the crew of the aircraft.
Members of the band
All were from the Brazilian state of São Paulo, except Dinho, who was born in Irecê (Bahia).
- Dinho - voice, acoustic guitar
- Samuel Reoli - bass, choirs
- Julio Rasec - keyboards, choirs, voice
- Sérgio Reoli - battery, percussion
- Bento Hinoto - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, choirs
History
The story of the Mamonas Asesinas begins with a band called Utopia, formed by the brothers Samuel and Sergio Reis de Oliveira and the Japanese Bento Hinoto, at that time known as Alberto.
In its beginnings, Utopia specialized in interpreting covers of famous groups such as Rush, Legião Urbana, Ultraje a Rigor, Titãs, Paralamas do Sucesso, Barão Vermelho, among others. One day when they were performing a show in a gym in the city of Guarulhos, the audience asked them to sing a song by Guns N' Roses. Since no member of the group knew the lyrics, they invited someone from the public to sing. It was there when Alecsander Alves, known as Dinho, introduced himself; he didn't know the lyrics either, but he made the audience laugh so much with his stage jokes that he ended up being invited to join the band. Through Dinho they incorporated the fifth member of the band, keyboardist Júlio Rasec.
The group's biggest dream was to record a video clip, but since they didn't have the money to hire a production company, they took a VHS camera and went to the Guarulhos International Airport, where they wanted to film a serious clip, to send it to MTV. In 1992 the clip was finally finished. With everything edited out, including special effects, the tape was sent to MTV, but they never heard back. The group began to tour the outskirts of São Paulo, where they recorded an album, which did not sell more than one hundred copies. The dream of the group was more and more distant, especially after Dinho and Julio went to the Department of Sports of the city of Guarulhos to be able to sing at the opening of the Guilherme Arante show, in the Thomeuzão (the main gym for holding events in that city), but they received a negative response.
Over time, they began to perceive that the antics and parody music they did in rehearsals was better received by the public than their own covers and more serious songs. During a show at a nightclub in Guarulhos, they met producer Rick Bonadio and it was then that they recorded two songs: Pelados em Santos and Robocop Gay. They decided, from that moment, to change the profile of the band and changed the name to Mamonas Assassinas do Espaço, the idea of Samuel Reoli, and which would later be shortened to Mamonas Assassinas.
The band sent a demo tape to three record labels, including Sony Music and EMI. Rafael Ramos, drummer for Baba Cósmica and son of EMI's artistic director, João Augusto Soares, insisted on hiring the band. After attending a presentation of the group on April 28, 1995, Soares decided to hire the Mamonas and thus the most important contract in the life of the five boys from Guarulhos was signed.
On May 9, 1995, the Mamonas Asesinas, thanks to the work of the press consultant hired by the group's businessman, Rick Bonadio (nicknamed by the band as Creuzebek), scheduled a national tour: with presence in the main national television programs such as Jô Soares onze e meia, Domingo legal, Programa livre (on SBT), Domingão do Faustão and Xuxa Park (on Rede Globo) and playing about eight times a week, with appearances in 25 of the 27 Brazilian stadiums and occasionally performing up to two shows per day. At one point, the band was selling close to 100,000 copies every other day. The album managed to sell more than 3 million copies throughout Brazil, granting them the diamond disc certificate in 1995 by the Brazilian Association of Record Producers.
The band was preparing an international career, with a presentation scheduled for March 3, 1996 in Portugal. However, on March 2, when they were returning from a concert in Brasilia, the Learjet aircraft in which they were traveling, with the prefix LR-25D - PT-LSD, crashed. against the Serra da Cantareira after failing a landing, killing all the members of the band and the plane's crew. The funeral, held on March 4, was attended by more than 65,000 people (in some schools there were no classes due to mourning).
Discography
Demos
- 1992: To Formula do Fenômeno (like) Utopia)
Studio album
- 1995: Mamonas Assassinas
Compilations
- 1998: Atenção, Creuzebek: A Baixaria Continua
- 2011: Pelados em Santos
Live Album
- 2006: Mamonas ao Vivo
Legacy
- During the same year of the fatal accident of the Assassina Mamonas, the payment group of So Pra Contrariar, led by Alexandre Pires, recorded the song Tribute aos Mamonas Honoring the band.
- The paulists Titãs also dedicated their 1997 MTV acoustic album to the Assassinsian Mamonas. In 1999, the Titãs rewrapped the success "Pelados em Santos" in the covers album. As Dez Mais.
- The paulistan band 365 composed the song "Manhã de Domingo", present in the album "Do Outro lado do Rio" (2005), in tribute to the Mamonas. It should be remembered that when they were still called UtopiaThe Mamonas opened several shows for 365.
- The Mamonas are quoted on a stretch of the song "Pré-Sal" by Nando Reis. and 'Festa da música tupiniquim' by Gabriel or Thinker
- The Bolivian Blue Blue pop rock group devotes them as a tribute to the theme Loco, included in the album El Sapo.