Latin Grammy-winning singer Mendonca dies in Brazil crash
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Latin Grammy-winning singer Mendonca dies in Brazil crash
Fans of Brazilian singer Marilia Mendonca queue while waiting for her wake at Arena Goiania sports centre, in Goiania, state of Goias, Brazil, on November 6, 2021. Marilia Mendonca, 26, one of the most popular of the "sertanejo" genre in Brazil, died on the eve along with four other people in a plane crash in the state of Minas Gerais. EVARISTO SA / AFP.



BRASÍLIA.- Marília Mendonça, a popular Brazilian pop singer who was known as “The Queen of Suffering” for her soulful, angst-filled ballads, was killed Friday in a small plane crash in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She was 26.

The singer’s press office confirmed Mendonça’s death and said her producer, Henrique Ribeiro; her uncle who was also her assistant, Abicieli Silveira Dias Filho; and the pilot and co-pilot of the plane were also killed.

The plane had been headed from the city of Goiania to Caratinga, where Mendonça was to have performed in a concert Friday night. There was no immediate word on the circumstances leading up to the crash. The authorities said they were investigating.

Mendonça was iconic in a type of Brazilian country music called sertanejo, a popular genre in Brazil. Her legions of fans found power in her song lyrics, which implored women to reject bad and abusive relationships, and told the stories of flawed characters. She won the 2019 Latin Grammy for best sertanejo album for “Em Todos Os Cantos.”

Mendonça was a social media sensation, with 7.8 million followers on Twitter, 22 million on YouTube and more than 38 million on Instagram.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said on Twitter, “The whole country receives in shock the news of the death of the young country singer Marília Mendonça, one of the greatest artists of her generation, whom, with her unique voice, charisma and music won the affection and admiration of all of us.”

Anitta, a funk singer popular in Brazil, said on Twitter: “I just found out. I can’t believe it.”

Some in Brazil’s cosmopolitan circles had scorned Mendonça’s country ballads as “‘brega,’ or corny music,” NPR reported in 2019.

“Sentimental or not, her songs offer a woman’s perspective that hasn’t been heard much in sertanejo’s machismo culture, and it’s made Mendonça the leading voice of a new subgenre called ‘feminejo’ — music by and for women,” NPR said.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.










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