Marília Mendonça, Brazilian Pop Singer, Dies in Plane Crash at 26
Marília Mendonça, a well-liked Brazilian pop singer who was referred to as “The Queen of Struggling” for her soulful, angst-filled ballads, was killed on Friday in a small aircraft crash within the southeastern state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She was 26.
The singer’s press workplace confirmed Ms. Mendonça’s dying and stated her producer, Henrique Ribeiro; her uncle who was additionally her assistant, Abicieli Silveira Dias Filho; and the pilot and co-pilot of the aircraft have been additionally killed.
The aircraft had been headed from the town of Goiania to Caratinga, the place Ms. Mendonça was to have carried out in a live performance on Friday night time. There was no speedy phrase on the circumstances main as much as the crash. The authorities stated they were investigating.
Ms. Mendonça was iconic in a kind of Brazilian nation music referred to as sertanejo, a well-liked style in Brazil.
Her legions of followers discovered energy in her track lyrics, which implored ladies to reject dangerous and abusive relationships, and advised the tales of flawed characters. She won the 2019 Latin Grammy for greatest sertanejo album for “Em Todos Os Cantos.”
Ms. Mendonça was a social media sensation, with 7.eight million followers on Twitter, 22 million on YouTube and greater than 38 million on Instagram.
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said on Twitter, “The entire nation receives in shock the information of the demise of the younger nation singer Marília Mendonça, one of many biggest artists of her era, whom, together with her distinctive voice, charisma and music gained the love and admiration of all of us.”
Anitta, a funk singer common in Brazil, said on Twitter: “I simply came upon. I can’t consider it.”
Some in Brazil’s cosmopolitan circles had scorned Ms. Mendonça’s nation ballads as “‘brega,’ or corny music,” NPR reported in 2019.
“Sentimental or not, her songs supply a lady’s perspective that hasn’t been heard a lot in sertanejo’s machismo tradition, and it’s made Mendonça the main voice of a brand new subgenre referred to as ‘feminejo’ — music by and for ladies,” NPR stated.
Ana Ionova contributed reporting.
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