Luis Eduardo Aute

Luis Eduardo Aute Gutiérrez (Manila, Philippines, September 13, 1943-Madrid, Spain, April 4, 2020) was a Spanish composer, filmmaker, sculptor, painter, and poet. Although he was primarily known as a singer-songwriter, he also excelled as a painter and as a film director. He spoke Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian ^{[citation needed ]} and Tagalog.

Biography

Early Years in the Philippines

Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on September 13, 1943. His father, Gumersindo Aute Junquera, was born in Barcelona, the son of Andalusians, and at the age of 18 he went to work in Manila, to the Tabacos de Filipinas company and there he met his wife, Amparo Gutiérrez-Répide Carpi, a Spanish daughter of a Valencian and Santander native. In his childhood, Luis Eduardo studied at the Colegio de La Salle, where he learned English, since all the teaching it was taught in that language; He also spoke Tagalog, which he learned on a daily basis, Spanish and Catalan, which he used with his family. As a child he showed great skill as a draftsman and painter. Another early passion was cinema, especially since his parents gave him an eight-millimeter camera with which he made various films with his friends.

At the age of eight, he traveled to Spain for the first time. In Madrid, accompanying the orchestra of the Hotel Avenida, she sang for the first time in public interpreting the song Las hojas muertas . At the age of eleven he saw On the Waterfront for the first time, a film that marked him remarkably and led him to write his first poems in English. Another film that influenced him at that time is Niagara, where he discovered the sensuality and eroticism of Marilyn Monroe.

Family return to Spain

In 1954 the family, after staying in Barcelona, settled permanently in Madrid, where Luis Eduardo studied at the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas school. Three years later, when he turned fifteen, and after giving him a guitar from his father, he performed at the school's end-of-year party forming a trio with two other friends. In those same years, greatly influenced by German expressionism, he began to paint tirelessly, obtaining a silver medal in the II Youth Art Contest.

In 1960 his first individual painting exhibition took place at the Alcón Gallery in Madrid, with considerable success. That same year his brother José Ramón was born. In the pre-university course he was part of several groups, such as Los Sonor, from which Los Bravos would emerge and in which he played the acoustic guitar; Los Tigres, in which he sang songs by Elvis Presley in English, and, according to José Ramón Pardo, Los Pekenikes.However, cinema and painting, like writing, continued to be his great passions. With Los Sonor he would come to perform two songs on the television show Salto a la fama , although Aute left the group to focus on his studies.

In 1961 he wrote his first film script and submitted a twenty-minute short film to the Primer Plano magazine contest. He also wrote The Last Throes , a kind of book with texts, poems and scripts that he had bound. His parents separated. He made another short film, Senses, which was rejected as immoral. In 1962 he held his second individual painting exhibition, at the Quixote gallery, and met Marichu Rosado, whom he married in 1968.

In 1963 he began to study technical architecture at the School of Surveyors, although only two weeks later he would drop out of university and move to Paris, where he experienced all the cultural effervescence of the time, discovered the music of Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens, He read Paul Éluard and Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) and watched films banned in Spain, such as Lolita by Stanley Kubrick. During the following years he returned several times to the French capital and began to live from his paintings, holding some exhibitions outside of Spain. The American art dealer Gregg Juárez sold his paintings in the United States. He also managed to start working in the world of cinema, highlighting his participation in the film Cleopatra, by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, as an interpreter for English, French and Spanish and second assistant director of the second unit, who was in charge of filming the sequences shot in Spain. In Madrid, he worked as a director on Life is magnificent, a film by Maurice Ronet, and on Chaud, chaud, les visons, by Marcel Ophüls.^{[ citation required]}

First compositions and international success

In 1965 Luis Eduardo Aute began his military service in Tremp (Lérida). His captain, fond of drawing, allowed him time to finish the paintings for an exhibition that was going to take place in California. During a trip to Madrid he met the singer Massiel. At the end of his military service in May of the following year, he returned to Madrid and traveled to São Paulo to participate in the Painting Biennial with three large-format paintings. In Brazil he discovered the music of Bob Dylan and Joan Báez and upon his return, encouraged by Massiel and under the influence of Dylan, he wrote five songs: Don Ramón, Made in Spain, Red on Black, Hallelujah #1 and Rosas en el mar . Initially, he offered all of them to Massiel, although eventually she only recorded the last one, making it a smashing success.^{[citation needed ]}

However, an old partner from Los Sonor, Manuel Escobar, chose two of them to include on the album he was recording and, while he was rehearsing them in a studio with Aute on guitar, the Producer and composer Juan Carlos Calderón listened to them and suggested that Aute record them himself, although he, despite the wishes of Ele Juárez, artistic director of RCA, rejected the idea, as he wanted to continue focusing on painting and film.. In 1967, Massiel finally included on a new album Rosas en el mar and Hasta mañana, another composition by Aute. Meanwhile, the RCA company insisted that Aute record his songs himself and he finally accepted, releasing a single with Made in Spain and Don Ramón. ^{[citation required]}

The version of Rosas en el mar by Massiel was a great success, so RCA decided to publish Aleluya #1, performed by Aute, while Zafiro published it performed by Massiel. The theme was a resounding success internationally, being performed by various singers in versions in Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Brazil, Japan, Venezuela and Latin America. In the United States, Ed Ames made a version called Who Will Answer, adapted by Sheila Davis, which reached number seven on the Billboard chart. Years later, Aute recounted a curious anecdote that he had heard, according to which Paul McCartney, upon hearing this English version of Hallelujah, decided to answer it with the song Let it be, by the Beatles. At this time, Aute met Joan Manuel Serrat.^{[citation needed]}

First album and retirement

Despite his success, Aute continued to consider himself primarily a painter and considered this foray into the world of music as something temporary. However, between 1967 and 1968 he published several single songs (Los burgueses, My land, My people, Niño de nada, Slowly , Clamo al firmamento and Tiempo de amores) and their first album, Diálogos de Rodrigo y Gimena, composed mainly of those songs already published on a single disc or performed by others, such as Rosas en el mar or Aleluya #1, and others of a satirical nature. The disc included a reproduction of one of his paintings and a definition of what a song was for him. He also held the fourth exhibition of his painting. That same year he met the singer Mari Trini, who performed two of his songs: I won't sell my soul and I don't know what will happen, the first song Aute wrote.^{[citation required]}

On March 21, 1968, he married his girlfriend Maritchu and in May he decided to leave the world of music, which had disappointed him, recording six months later, as a musical testament, the album 24 songs breves, a kind of political and social chronicle of the Spain of those years.^{[citation required]}

Away from the music business, in 1968 he published in Nueva Dimensión, a science fiction magazine, two short stories, Los fugitivos and P.A.P. In 1969, under the pseudonym Luis Junquera, he co-wrote the script for Cibeles, directed by José Sámano and won the prize for best experimental short at the San Sebastián Film Festival. That same year he made several promotional films for various musicians commissioned by RCA to be broadcast on television and met the singer Rosa León. ^{[citation needed ]}

The seventies. Around the world of music

In 1970 he published in Poesía 70, a poem that was the cause of the closure of the magazine, in which he had shared pages with fellow singers Joaquín Sabina and Carlos Cano. He also began to write the first poems of the book The mathematics of the mirror , something funeral due to the death of his father-in-law and an aunt of his wife. He wrote and directed Minutes Later , a 16-millimeter short selected to participate in the II Festival de Cine de Autor de Benalmádena. That year his son Pablo Antonio was born. He also composed, in collaboration with Jesús Munárriz, two songs for the play Castañuela 70. ^{[citation needed ]}

In 1971, he wrote and directed a new short film, Bodget 1, with his pictorial work as the protagonist, and he made the panels for the play Marat-Sade, by Peter Brooks, and the posters for the cycles on Godard, Luis Buñuel and the Novo Cinema Brasileiro at Cine California in Madrid.^{[citation required]}

In 1972, RCA published the compilation Álbum (1966-67), with songs already published, and the following year Rosa León published her first album, which includes seven songs by Aute, such as Ten past four, Somehow or The ideal secretary.^{[citation needed]}

Given the success achieved, and with the promise of absolute freedom on the part of the record company and the producer and writer José Manuel Caballero Bonald (including the non-obligation to appear on television or give recitals in public), Aute returned to world of music as a performer and that same year, 1973, he recorded Rito for Ariola, which came out the following year and was the first of the albums in the trilogy Canciones de amor y de muerte. The last song on the album is the song Autotango del cantautor, a self-criticism towards the world of singer-songwriters. This same year he composed the songs for El pechicidio , by Lauro Olmo. In 1974 he wrote the soundtrack for Los viajes escolares , by Jaime Chávarri. ^{[citation needed ]}

In 1975 Espuma was published, with the subtitle «Canciones eróticas» and whose back cover included quotes by Paul Éluard and Vicente Aleixandre. From this work, which had considerable success, the single Anda was extracted, one of his best-known songs. That same year he published the book La matemática del espejo and wrote the soundtracks for Emilia, parada y fonda, by Angelino Fons, and, for Televisión Española, Viaje to the Alcarria, by Antonio Rico. He also shot A flor de piel , his last short film, in color and in 35mm, starring Ana Belén and Jaime Chávarri. In these years he also designed record portfolios for RCA, EMI, Movieplay and Nevada and did commissioned portraits. His first solo public performance took place on December 20 of this year, together with Amancio Prada, Rosa León, his sister Julia León, Víctor Manuel and Luis Pastor, at the IX Festival de Villancicos Nuevos de Pamplona, where he performed the Christmas carol Niño de nada.^{[citation needed]}

He then began recording the songs for his next album, Sarcófago, which sets to music some poems from La matematica del espejo. The theme of this new work is death, so, since it was not a commercial theme, he was forced by the record company to record Babel, a more commercial work that finally came out in 1976, while that Sarcófago did it in 1977. Babel was a kind of satirical and ironic entertainment about the society of the time, with criticisms of soccer, Torrejón's US base, consumerism, etc., while Sarcófago was a much more personal and intimate work, the last of the trilogy Songs of love and death, after Rite and Foam. Also in 1976 he wrote for television the music of La señora García se confessa, by Adolfo Marsillach, and La viuda andaluza, by Francesc Betriu.^{[quote required]}

In 1977 he wrote the soundtracks for the films In memoriam, by Enrique Brasó, Wife and lover, by Angelino Fons, My daughter Hildegart, by Fernando Fernán Gómez and ¡Arriba Hazaña!, by José María Gutiérrez. He also wrote a song for The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, by Fernando Arrabal. This same year she began to write the songs for her album Albanta and several poems for what was her new book The liturgy of disorder . The singers Marisol, Massiel, Ana Belén and Rosa León recorded songs written by him. The humorous album Forgesound also appeared, recorded the year before in the company of Jesús Munárriz and inspired by the cartoonist Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, known as Forges, and in which he also Rosa León and her sister participated Julia, Teddy Bautista and Fernando García Morcillo.

In February 1978, he performed in Albacete accompanied on guitar by Jos Martin at a party organized by the CNT union and in which Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, Jesús Munárriz and Moncho Alpuente also participated. next he performed in Cuenca. On April 12, his father, to whom he was very close, died. Performances at other venues followed, including the Colegio Mayor San Juan Evangelista in Madrid, and after the summer he began to be accompanied by his inseparable guitarist, Luis Mendo.

He then recorded Albanta, a name invented by his son Pablo to refer to an imaginary and ideal country. The album was a turning point in his career, since the arrangements were aimed at live performance and it is the one with the most rock sounds of his entire discography, the result of the musical direction and arrangements by Teddy Bautista, as well as the participation on the guitars of Armando de Castro. It included the song "Al alba", probably the most famous and significant of Aute's entire career, dedicated to the victims of the last executions of the Franco regime but which nevertheless managed to circumvent the censorship of the time. A por el mar is another of the hymns of the time. The album was the first of the trilogy called Canciones de amor y de vida. In July he was invited by the Cuban government to participate in the World Youth Festival in Havana, where he sang with Pablo Milanés, Silvio Rodríguez and Amaury Pérez, members of the Nueva Trova Cubana. When he arrived in Cuba, he worsened from tuberculosis that he had contracted for a long time in Spain (he did not contract it on the island). and he had to rest for five months, during which he read philosophy, which influenced his transition from atheism to a certain kind of religion. This same year he wrote a song for the film Cabo de Vara, by Raúl Artigot. ^{[citation needed ]}

In 1979 he recorded the album De par en par, which at first was going to be called Latido, but the record company changed the title (it is the first album of the second stage of Aute whose title is not made up of a single word). Also that year she composed the music for the play Cinco horas con Mario, based on the novel by Miguel Delibes and directed by Josefina Molina. On February 22, 1980, he offered his first concert accompanied by the Suburbano band, led by Luis Mendo, at the Teatro Alcalá in Madrid. At the end of the year a new album appeared called Alma, published with a new company, Movieplay. This work marked the closure of the trilogy Canciones de amor y de vida and is the first produced by Luis Mendo. It includes I was passing through here and Don't undress yet, two of Aute's best-known songs. He wrote the music for El hombre de moda , by Fernando Méndez Leite. ^{[citation needed ]}

The Eighties

On April 30, 1981, their daughter Laura Julieta was born. Year in which she composed the music for the film Función de noche , by Josefina Molina, performed by Lola Herrera and Daniel Dicenta. He starred with Juan Carlos Calderón in one of the debates on the TVE program, Mano a mano, directed and presented by Joaquim María Puyal and coordinated by Carlos Villarrubia and Jordi Jaria.^{[citation required ]}

In March 1982 he published Fuga, which included classics such as Siento que te estoy perdido y Mira que eres canalla and constitutes the first of a new trilogy, Songs of Love and Doubt. He wrote the music for Pablo y Virginia, by Jaime Chávarri. On March 4, 1983, in two performances, the live album Entre amigos was recorded at the Salamanca Theater in Madrid, in which he was accompanied by Teddy Bautista, Pablo Milanés, Silvio Rodríguez and Joan Manuel Serrat. This new work rose to the charts and was awarded the 1983 National Record Award from the Ministry of Culture. He wrote the music for Fausto Canal's Juego de poder , and several songs for a Pepa Flores album. ^{[citation needed ]}

In 1984 he published Cuerpo a cuerpo, which included well-known songs such as Cinema, cine, Two or three seconds of tenderness and One of two. A year later, in 1985, Nudo was released, which included the theme The Universe. Both discs were accompanied by pictorial exhibitions of the same title. She went on a successful concert tour, performing in the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid and in the Monumental in Barcelona. That same year he wrote the music for A Dreamed Childhood, by Isidoro Moreno, and directed the episode The Wailing Wall, of the television series Delirios de amor , for which he also composed the music. In 1986 he recorded the double album, titled tribute to Pablo Neruda, 20 Canciones de Amor y un Poema Desesperado, in which he reviews twenty of his best-known songs and ends with a recited poem accompanied by the guitar by Paco de Lucía. He participated in the recording, at the Salamanca Theater, of the live album Joaquín Sabina y Viceversa en directo, dedicating a song to Joaquín Sabina entitled Let's say I'm talking about Joaquín.^{[citation required]}

On April 7, 1987, their third child, Miguel Leonardo, was born. After the summer he began recording the songs for Templo, an album in which, inspired by the paintings painted for the exhibition of the same title held at the Kreisler Dos gallery in Madrid, he elaborated a whole hymn to love and eroticism based on the liturgy of the Christian mass. The work, considered by Aute himself as his "cursed album", was accompanied by a video for the song Pumpum, pumpum filmed by the director Hervé Tirmache.^{[citation required]}

In 1988 he wrote, directed and composed the music for the episode of the television series Delirios de amor entitled La pupila del écstasis. Segundos fuera, recorded between March and April 1989, beginning the trilogy Canciones de amor y rabia. This work reflected his disappointment in the face of lost dreams (in it there is a quote from the philosopher Eugenio Trías: «Cynicism is the morality of the 20th century, especially in recent years, after the old social utopias have been discredited, and it has become of money the only God"). However, the album, which includes another of Aute's classics, La Belleza (with a video by Hervé Tirmache), ended with the humorous Vaya feena.

The 1990s

His next album, Ufff!, released in 1991 and in which Suso Saiz collaborates, follows the same trend as the previous one, between disappointment and refuge in love and eroticism. The song Siglo XXI can be considered as a continuation/homage to the famous tango Cambalache, by Enrique Santos Discépolo. In the summer of 1992 he recorded a new album, Slowly, in the company of Suso Saiz and Gonzalo Lasheras, who replaced Luis Mendo as producer, and for which the filmmakers Azucena Rodríguez and Carmen Rosado directed the video of the title song of the album. On November 13 and 14 he performed at La Casona del Conde de Palermo in Buenos Aires, in what was his first performance in South America. ^{[citation needed ]}

In 1993, he campaigned for the United Left in the general elections held in Spain. In June she returned to perform in Buenos Aires and also in Uruguay and Chile. Back in Spain, he went on a concert tour in the company of Silvio Rodríguez that resulted in the album Mano a Mano, recorded in the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid on September 24 in a concert that lasted three and a half hours. The record sold over 200,000 copies, a huge success for both artists. This same year he published the album / book animaLuno in El Europeo, in which he sets to music some of his short poems, which he called "poemigas"; it also included drawings made with ballpoint pen or "pens". Two years later, in 1995, he published Alevosía , an album in which Silvio Rodríguez and Santiago Feliú collaborated. In 1997 Jaime Chávarri directed a film about the singer-songwriter called Ad libidum for the General Society of Authors of Spain. This film was part of the Author by Author cycle, a series of 13 short films that reflected from independent cinema the perspective of 13 directors on 13 musicians.

In 1998 Aire/Invisible came out, a double album made up of a first part sung in Spanish and a second part sung in English. The album included two poems by Fernando Pessoa and the English version of his song Aleluya #1, which was so successful in the sixties. In 1999 he published animaLdos in Plaza y Janés, another experiment that included more "poemigas" and a video made filming with a super 8 camera. In the year 2000 Look, you're a scoundrel Aute! was published, a tribute album in which several artists covered songs by the singer-songwriter.^{[citation required]}

21st century and death

Aute at the Madrid Book Fair next to David Trueba.

In 2001 Luis Eduardo Aute, after five years of intense work, gave birth to his full-length film A dog called pain, an animation project for which he made more than four thousand drawings on pencil. The film was published in DVD format accompanied by a disc with the soundtrack, composed by Aute himself, Silvio Rodríguez, Suso Sáiz and Moraíto Chico. The Salamanca City of Culture Foundation dedicated a tribute to him entitled SemanAute, the largest retrospective to date of the artist. As part of this tribute, the exhibition Aute. Transfiguraciones shows his pictorial work between 1951 and 2001. The following year the book Volver al agua was published, a compilation of all his poetic work, which included the books The Mathematics of Mirror, The Liturgy of Disorder and Temple of Meat.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003 he published Alas y balas, where he recovered the song La vida al pasar, a song he once composed for Marisol. compilation Self-Portraits Vol. 1, which included new revisions of timeless classic songs. Two years later, the second part of this work came out, Self-portraits Vol. 2.^{[citation required]}

In 2005 he published animaLtresD, which included more «poems» and three-dimensional drawings for which special glasses were included and which, according to the author himself, «are not surreal drawings, rather rationalists." The work, published by Ediciones Siruela, was published in the compilation animaLhada, a book that also included a summary of animaLuno and animaLdos plus a CD and a DVD.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006 Aute released a new book-record, entitled Días de amores. The book collected the lyrics of some seventy songs from her repertoire that have love as their main theme. The CD that accompanied it included eleven new versions of classic songs from her repertoire plus the previously unpublished song A day of today , which gave its name to her next album, published the following year.

A day of today (2007), produced by Tony Carmona, was Aute's first album with unpublished songs in five years, when they celebrated forty years since their first recording. It included twelve songs, including Hallelujah #8. To end the year, Aute surprised again with the publication of a new work, animaLhito , a continuation of animaLhada , in which he presented his new pictorial and literary work. The book, with a circulation of 5,000 copies, included a CD with more than thirty new songs from his "poemigas", with arrangements and production by Javier Monforte, except for five of them, by Miguel Aute. The book was prefaced by Alfonso López Gradolí. On the other hand, Humo y azar was put up for sale, a box with two CDs and as many DVDs recorded live.^{[ citation required]}

In 2008, he collaborated on the third LP of the Sevillian rapper Haze, on the song Juego de niños and in 2009, with fellow rapper El Chojin on the second version (remix) of the song « Laugh when you can, cry when you need tos”, from his album Things that happen, that don't happen and that should happen.^{[citation required]}

In 2009 he was invited to sing at the 25th anniversary concert in the music of the Ciezana singer-songwriter María Esperanza, in which she paid tribute to him. This performance took place within the Semana Grande Cultural of Caja Murcia, in the Aurelio Guirao de Cieza auditorium.^{[citation required]}

In 2010, once again with the production and accompaniment of Tony Carmona, he published Intemperie, a new album with 14 unpublished songs. A recognized bullfighting fan, he positioned himself in favor of bullfighting and in defense of the same different press articles on the occasion of the ban on bullfights in Catalonia.

In 2012 he released The boy who looked at the sea, produced by Tony Carmona, a CD with 12 new songs accompanied by a DVD with the animated film The boy and the basilisk , the work of Aute himself.

At the end of November of that same year, he collaborated with María Dolores Pradera on her album Gracias a vosotros, interpreting the popular bolero "Caminemos" as a duet.^{[ citation required]}

In 2013 he collaborated in the LCD Manual for the forgotten ones, by the Mexican poet Paco Álvarez, musicalizing and interpreting the text «Aunque solo sea uno», In this kind of book-disc other writers and singer-songwriters such as Elena Poniatowska, Jaime Sabines, Tania Libertad, Santiago Feliú, and Cristina Narea, a Chilean singer-songwriter from Madrid who collaborated for more than 20 years with Aute as part of his band, among others.

In 2014 he published Claroscuros y otros pentimentos, a book that collected all his songs published up to then.

In 2015 he received a tribute for his career in music, painting and film, at the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani in Valencia.^{[citation required]}

On August 8, 2016, the artist suffered a heart attack after returning to Madrid after a concert in Huelva. The heart attack led him to a coma and to undergo surgery at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, for which reason his subsequent concerts in Spain and Latin America were suspended.

After the stroke he suffered in 2016 that kept him in a coma for two months, he made several stays in hospitals, including the International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN) in Cuba, where he stayed for two months to undergo experimental treatment.

After this stay, on January 30, 2017, he returned to Madrid from Cuba and remained in the care of his family.

On November 16, 2018, a live double CD entitled De la luz y la sombra was published, with 34 songs recorded on the artist's last tour in Madrid and Mexico.

On December 10, 2018, around twenty artists and admirers held the tribute concert Ánimo Animal at the old Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid. Among them were Silvio Rodríguez, Joaquín Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat, Ana Belén, Massiel, Víctor Manuel, Dani Martín, Jorge Drexler, Pedro Guerra, José Mercé, Rozalén, Andrés Suárez, Miguel Poveda, Ismael Serrano, Luis Pastor, Marwan, Vicente Feliú, Rosa León, Los Tambores De Calanda, Cristina Narea, Aute's scenic accomplice for two decades, and Suburbano. The musician José Antonio Romero (a collaborator of Víctor and Ana, Serrat, Sabina's guitarist and producer) took over the musical direction. The artist and singer-songwriter could not attend the event, but he closely followed the preparations.

In 2019, as happened at the WiZink Center in Madrid, on February 2 the concert Ànims Animal was held at the Auditori del Fórum in Barcelona, which brought together several friends of Luis Eduardo Aute who offered a heartfelt concert to encourage him; among them other songwriting colleagues: Paco Ibáñez, Quico Pi de la Serra, Maria del Mar Bonet, Marina Rossell, Sisa, Roger Mas, Los Tambores De Calanda and artists with one foot in other aesthetics, from Estopa to Els Amics de les Arts, going through Quique González, Andrés Suárez, Ángel Petisme, Suburbano, Javier Gurruchaga and Depedro who completed the cast together with Cristina Narea, who also served as executive organizer of the tribute concert, under the musical direction of Cope Gutiérrez, another renowned collaborator of the singer-songwriter.

On September 13, 2019, the tribute film to the author called: "Aute Retrato" will be released, directed by Gaizka Urresti, from Urresti Producciones S. L.

It is a documentary feature film about the half-century career of Luis Eduardo Aute, built with comments from friends, family and colleagues, who express their affection and admiration for him and his immense musical, pictorial, poetic and cinematographic work.. Recordings and words of his made throughout his artistic life are also collected.

The artist himself participates with his presence and gaze in some moments of the filming of the documentary, (but in silence forced by his state of health, he would die just over half a year after the premiere of this film).

He died of COVID-19 on April 4, 2020 at the age of seventy-six in a Madrid hospital where he was admitted twenty-four hours earlier. However, the family said that he could not know if he died from COVID-19.

At the end of 2020, the publishing house Ya lo dijo Casimiro Parker publishes the title "Authentic" as it says in its synopsis, it is a volume that brings together the artistic thought of Aute through his poems/poems, and his paintings and drawings. They are the two least known artistic aspects of Luis Eduardo, but where he felt most comfortable. A sign that he was a total and fundamental artist of our culture.

Personal life

In 1968, he married the Ecuadorian María del Carmen Rosado, Maritchu, with whom he had three children: Miguel Leonardo, Laura Julieta and Pablo Antonio.

Discography

Early singles

• Don Ramón / Made in Spain (RCA-Víctor, 1967)
• Hallelujah #1 / Red on black (RCA-Víctor, 1967)
• Al-leluia #1 / Roig damunt the negre (RCA-Víctor, 1967)
• My land, my people / The eyes (RCA-Víctor, 1968)
• The bourgeois / I will look into your body (RCA-Víctor, 1968)
• Class at the firming (Hallelujah #2) / Labrador (RCA-Víctor, 1968)
• I belong / Where the truth will be (RCA-Víctor, 1968)
• Time of love / Yes, yes, sir (RCA-Víctor, 1968)

Long Playing Records

Groups

• Third Festival of the New Latin American Song (Discos Pentagrama, 1984)
• All voices all (1996)
• I sing for change (2004)
• Manual for forgotten (2013)

Original poems

• The math of the mirror (Edició Ángel Caffarena, Malaga, 1975)
• The liturgy of disorder (Hiperion, Madrid, 1978)
• Songs (Hiperion, Madrid, 1988)
• Animum (Editorial The European/Allegro, Madrid, 1994). Disco-book.
• animated (Plaza/Janés, Madrid, 1999). Book-video.
• animaLtresD (Siruela, 2005)
• animaLhito (Siruela, 2007)
• There's no fifth aniMalo. (Siruela, 2010)
• SexTo animal (Espasa, 2016)

Claroscuros and other pentimentos (Pigmalión, 2014) and Toda la poesía (Espasa, 2017) are the most recent compilations of his songbook and his complete poetry, respectively.

Filmography

• Senses (cortometraje, 1961)
• Old Color Days (1967)
• Minutes later (cortometraje, 1970)
• Chapuza 1 (1971)
• A flower of skin (cortometraje, 1975)
• The Andalusian widow (1976), composer
• School travel (1976), composer
• Wife and lover (1977), composer
• In memoriam (1977), composer
• My daughter Hildegart (1977), composer
• Up Hazaña! (1978), composer
• The fashionable man (1980), composer
• The wall of regrets (cortometraje, 1986)
• The living portrait (1986)
• The pupil of ecstasy (1989)
• A dog named Dolor (2001), Director
• Delusions of love (1986), director and screenwriter
• The boy and the basilisco (2012)
• After Nazareth (2015), actor and composer
• Vincent and the spinner (2015)

Painting exhibitions

Individuals

Collective

• 1960: II Youth Art Contest, Madrid (Medal of Silver)
• 1965: Biennale of Zaragoza. Les arts en Europe, Brussels. Biennale de Paris
• 1967: São Paulo Biennial
• 1973: 25 Artists Young. Gallery d'art del Vallés, San Cugat, Barcelona
• 1974: Collective of the magazine Tropos, Galería Matisse, Barcelona. Collective, Kreisler Dos Gallery, Madrid. Selected for the National Fine Arts Contests, Madrid. XXVIII Mostra Internazionale Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy (First Painting Prize)
• 1975: Collective, Atienza Gallery, Madrid.
• 1982: Collective of the ABRA group, Altex Gallery, Madrid. Magic Kermesse, Altex Gallery, Madrid. Magic Kermesse, Marie Blanchard Gallery, Santander
• 1983: ARCO, Madrid
• 1984: ARCO, Madrid. Collective of the ABRA group, Weehuis Neumen Gallery, Netherlands
• 1985: Autograph poems, Moriarty Gallery, Madrid
• 1996: Referente: Goya, Bat Gallery, Madrid
• 1998: II Refractory Hall, Galería Buades, Madrid
• 2003: The colors of the musicInauguration: Circle of Fine Arts, Madrid (Itinerary Exhibition)

Acknowledgments

• In 2016 he received the José Rizal Award of the Letters Philippines, awarded by the Instituto Juan Andrés de Comparatística y Globalización and the Grupo de Investigación Humanismo-Europa, in this case "to the polyphacetic artist Luis Eduardo Aute for the set of his literary and artistic work on the occasion of the publication of the volume of 'Poemigas and other iconographs' entitled SexTo animal (Madrid, 2016)".