Eduardo Mateo

Eduardo Mateo deserves to be spoken of as a genuine giant of Uruguayan music. Folding rock, bossa nova, psychedelia, and local candombe into something genuinely new, he occupies a place in Montevideo's culture comparable to what Tropicália meant for Brazil. As a composer, guitarist, and percussionist, he was a true sonic alchemist. His death at forty-nine in 1990 feels like a loss the wider world never fully reckoned with, since recognition often arrived after the fact. To me he is exactly the sort of artist worth rediscovering, his music still carrying the texture of the city that made him.

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Name (English)

Eduardo Mateo

Name (Japanese)

エドゥアルド・マテオ

Reading

えどぅあるど・まてお

Born

September 19, 1940 – May 16, 1990

Origin

Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Occupation

composer / percussionist / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Mateo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704112

Tags

• Montevideo Department
• composer
• percussionist
• guitarist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.