The decision was made by the families of the musicians, who entered into an agreement to cremate the bodies and turn them into fertilizer to plant five trees in the BioParque Cemitério de Guarulhos
On Monday, the 23rd, the bodies of the five Mamonas Assassinas will be exhumed, almost 30 years after the plane crash that ended the “comic rock” band that was successful in the country.
The decision was made by the families of the musicians, who entered into an agreement to cremate the bodies and turn them into fertilizer to plant five trees in the BioParque Cemitério de Guarulhos, the city where they lived, according to columnist Ancelmo Gois, from the newspaper O Globo.
Who were the ‘Killer Mamonas’?
A phenomenon band in the 1990s, Mamonas Assassinas became known for their debauched lyrics such as Brasília Amarela, Sabão Crá-Crá and Pelados em Santos.
The first and only album, bearing the band’s name, had been released in June 1995 and, in the following eight months, 1.8 million copies were sold (in total to date, there have been 3 million copies, the third biggest commercial success among national artists of all time).
On March 2, 1996, musicians Dinho, Bento Hinoto, Samuel Reoli, Júlio Rasec and Sérgio Reoli were returning from a show in Brasília in a Learjet model 25D, registration PT-LSD, chartered by the band.
The aircraft crashed into Serra da Cantareira, north of São Paulo, in a go-around attempt. In addition to the five members of the band, the accident killed pilot Jorge Luiz Germano Martins, co-pilot Alberto Takeda, stagehand Isaac Souto and security guard Sérgio Porto.
The group’s wake was held at the Ginásio Municipal Paschoal Thomeu, in Guarulhos and brought together around 30 thousand people, while more than one hundred thousand followed the procession to the Parque das Primaveras cemetery.
Inside the cemetery, around 500 people attended the burial. The five members of Mamonas were placed, together with Isaac Souto, in the same tomb. The ceremony lasted just over 40 minutes and included a “Congratulations to you”, in honor of Dinho, who, on March 4, 1996, would have turned 25 years old.
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