![]() The plane crashed at Serra da Cantareira, 20 miles away from the airport at 23:00.Īlong with the band members, four other people died in the crash: They were going home to spend a day off with their families since the next day they would travel to Portugal to start a new tour. After a show in Brasília, the band was flying to São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, in Guarulhos. The band's successful career came to an end along with all band members' lives on March 2, 1996, due to a plane crash. Their first demo reached Rafael, son of the artistic director of EMI-Odeon, João Augusto Soares. 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. They even did release an album, but it sold less than 100 copies. Soon Dinho and Júlio were incorporated, and Utopia performed in the suburbs of São Paulo. The band started its activities in 1989 as a trio, without Dinho and Júlio, in a band called Utopia, performing covers of Legião Urbana and Rush. Their short lived and "meteoric" success were celebrated for decades and the members are remembered and celebrated even to the present day in Brazil. On March 2, 1996, the plane in which the band was traveling crashed into the Cantareira mountain range, near São Paulo, killing all five band members. The band mentioned model Mari Alexandre as an influence to the name, and even translated the name into English as "Killer Big Breasts". 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 compound ricin (their logo incorporated a castor bean) or the augmentative for mamas, meaning breasts (which were prominently pictured on the album cover). Their musical style employed a humorous mixture between rock and a wide range of styles, often borrowing 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"). ![]() Mamonas Assassinas was a Brazilian satirical rock band.
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