Mamonas Assassinas

Mamonas Assassinas
Origin	Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil
Genres	Comedy rock
Years active	1995–1996
Labels	EMI
Associated acts	Utopia

Past members	Dinho Samuel Reoli Júlio Rasec Sérgio Reoli Bento Hinoto

Mamonas Assassinas was a satirical Brazilian rock band. Their lyrics, music and live performances were as famous as their tragic end: on March 2, 1996, the plane in which they were flying, crashed into the Cantareira mountain range, near São Paulo, causing the death of all the band members.

The band's name carries a double-entendre as, in Portuguese mamonas can be either the name of the Castor oil plant, which contains the highly toxic comount ricin (their logo incorporated a castor bean) or the augmentative for mamas, meaning breasts (which were prominently pictured on the album cover). The band mentioned model Mari Alexandre as an influence to the name, and even translated the name into English as "Killer Big Breasts".^[1]

The musical style of Mamonas Assassinas members employed a humorous mixture between rock and a wide range of styles. They often borrowed elements from other music, among which were the main riff of the Portuguese Vira ("Vira-Vira"), Northeastern Brazilian rhythms like forró ("Jumento Celestino"), Mexican music ("Pelados em Santos"), heavy metal ("Débil Metal"), sertanejo ("Bois Don't Cry"), and even pagode ("Lá Vem o Alemão"). This combination can be easily checked at their videos, where various references to many cultures were found.

History

Early years and major era

The band started its activities in 1989 without Dinho, in a band called Utopia, performing covers of Legião Urbana and Rush. Soon Dinho was incorporated, and Utopia performed in the suburbs of São Paulo. They even did release an album, but it sold less than 100 copies. Just as the band noticed the comedical intromissions and songs on their concerts were better accepted than the serious performances, the band decided to fully embrace the comedy on their music, including a change to a double entendre name.^[2] Their first demo reached Rafael, son of the artistic director of EMI-Odeon, João Augusto Soares. João Augusto hired the band afterwards

The plane crash

The band's successful 8-month career came to an end along with all band members' lives on March 2, 1996, due to a plane crash. After a show in Brasília, the band was flying to São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, in Guarulhos. The aircraft was a Learjet 25.^[3] The jet was on final approach to land on the runway 09R,^[3] but went-around. As it flew around the runway for a second attempt to land, it crashed into the Cantareira mountain range, at 23:16.

After the disaster

After the band's sudden end, their label released one live album and one posthumous album. They continued to be very famous in Brazil, and kept being influential to the culture. They were, for instance, parodied several times by the humorous site Charges.com.br.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Videography

1996: MTV na Estrada (MTV on the Road) (re-released in DVD in 2004)^[10]
2002: Show Ao Vivo em Valinhos 1996 (Live in Valinhos)
2008: Por Toda Minha Vida - Mamonas Assassinas (Exhibited in TV Globo)^[11]
2011: Mamonas para sempre (Documentary)^[12]

Members

All of them were born in Guarulhos, except Dinho, who was born in Irecê, a town from Bahia state.

Alecsander Alves (known as Dinho) - vocals
Alberto Hinoto (Bento Hinoto) - guitar
Samuel Reis de Oliveira (Samuel Reoli; "Reoli" is a contraction of the last names Reis and Oliveira) - bass guitar
Júlio César Barbosa (Júlio Rasec; Rasec is "César" spelled backwards) - keyboards, backing vocals
Sérgio Reis de Oliveira (Sérgio Reoli; Samuel's older brother) - drums

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album
1992	A Fórmula do Fenômeno, as Utopia Released: 1992 Label: Independent
1995	Mamonas Assassinas Released: 1995 Label: EMI

Compilation albums

Year	Album
1998	Atenção, Creuzebek: A Baixaria Continua (1998, posthumous album) Released: 1998 Label: EMI

Live albums

Year	Album
1998	Mamonas Ao Vivo (2006, posthumous album) Released: September 24, 2006 Label: EMI

Singles

Year	Single	Album
1995	"Pelados em Santos"	Mamonas Assassinas
	"Robocop Gay"	Mamonas Assassinas
	"Vira-Vira"	Mamonas Assassinas
	"1406"	Mamonas Assassinas

References

External links

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