Eduardo Mateo

Eduardo Mateo (1940-1990) was a Uruguayan singer, songwriter and guitarist from Montevideo. He mixed rock, bossa nova and psychedelia with Uruguayan candombe rhythms, and with the group El Kinto, formed in 1967 with Rubén Rada, he helped shape the style known as candombe beat. His first solo album was Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame (1972). Mateo stayed with El Kinto until the group ended in 1970. Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame was recorded in Buenos Aires with engineer Carlos Píriz and issued on De la Planta, and Lion Productions later reissued it in the United States.