Famous Filipino Artists: Luis Eduardo Aute (born Manila, September 13, 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer-songwriter, film director, painter and poet.
Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila, capital of the Philippines, on September 13, 1943. His father, Catalan (born in Catalonia, Spain), had been working in that country since 1919, in a tobacco company and was married with a Filipina, descendent of the Spanish burguesy. In his childhood, Aute studied in De La Salle School, where he learned English and Tagalog, which is used with his family. Since very early shows great ability 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, he travels to Spain for the 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.