Luis Eduardo Aute

Performer of a music style known as Canto Nuevo or Nueva Trova, Luis Eduardo Aute has been an artist in many different ways. His first passion was painting, having his first exhibition in 1960, and by the mid-'60s, the painter and poet was convinced to start recording his own music. The following year, Aleluya and Rosas en el Mar were released. Prominent books such as Las Matematicas del Espejo, La Liturgia del Desorden, and Animal were published in recognition of his writing skills. After releasing Alevosía in 1995, Aute started touring all over Latin America and Spain with a painting exhibition called Ad Libidum; he later participated in a collective album called Un Secreto a Voces, based on lyrics by Alejandro Filio. ~ Drago Bonacich