Jorge Mautner
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Mautner in 2013
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| Born |
Henrique George Mautner January 17, 1941 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter, poet, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Notable work | "Maracatu Atômico" Deus da Chuva e da Morte O Filho do Holocausto |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Mendes (m. 1968; her death 1983) |
| Children | Amora Mautner |
| Awards |
Prêmio Jabuti (1963) Latin Grammy Award (2003) |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | MPB |
| Instruments | Vocals, violin |
| Labels | RCA Records, Phonogram Records, PolyGram, Philips Records, Rock Company Records, Primal Records, Universal Music Group, Dabliú Records, Warner Music Group |
| Associated acts | Nélson Jacobina, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Celso Sim, Vestidos de Espaço, Rogério Skylab |
Henrique George Mautner (born January 17, 1941), better known by his stage name Jorge Mautner, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, violinist, actor, screenwriter, film director and poet, considered to be a pioneer of the MPB scene and of the Tropicalista movement.
Mautner was born in Rio de Janeiro on January 17, 1941, one month after his mother, Anna Illichi, a Catholic Yugoslav, and his father, Paul Mautner, an Austrian Jew, emigrated from Europe to Brazil to escape from the Holocaust. Despite being a sympathizer of Getúlio Vargas, Paul was a part of the Jewish underground resistance. Anna eventually suffered from a major paralysis due to a trauma caused by the fact that Jorge's sister, Susana, was not able to embark to Brazil with them, and so until he was 7 years old a nanny, Lúcia, took care of him; Lúcia was a mãe-de-santo, and introduced Jorge to Candomblé.
In 1948 Jorge's parents divorced, and Anna eventually remarried Henri Müller, a violinist who played for the São Paulo State Symphony, and who taught Jorge how to play the violin. His family later moved to São Paulo, where he studied at the prestigious Colégio Dante Alighieri; despite being an excellent student, he would, however, be expelled before he could graduate from high school because of a text he wrote, considered "indecent" by his teachers.
Mautner began to write his first book, Deus da Chuva e da Morte, when he was 15 years old; it was published in 1962, and in the following year it won the Prêmio Jabuti. Deus da Chuva e da Morte would be the first part of what is today known as his Mitologia do Kaos trilogy, which also comprises Kaos (1963) and Narciso em Tarde Cinza (1965). In it, Mautner would define the main ideology of what he calls the "Kaos Movement".
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