Portuguese singer Linda de Suza, known by her titles in French and her mother tongue, has died at the age of 74. It was her agent who announced it to AFP on Wednesday.
“Your son Joao Lança and I are saddened to inform you of the death this morning at 10:10” of Linda de Suza, Fabien Lecoeuvre wrote in a press release.
The singer died at the Gisors hospital, “where she had been transferred very early this morning, due to respiratory failure and positive for Covid 19,” the press release specifies.
“The Cardboard Suitcase”
Arriving from Portugal in 1969, fleeing the Salazar dictatorship, Linda de Suza developed most of her career in France, where she achieved great success, beginning in the 1970s. The singer will recount her childhood and her arrival in France in an autobiographical book. published in 1984 and titled the cardboard suitcasebrought to the small screen in 1988, in the form of a soap opera, after having been a musical.
In 1983 he triumphed at the Olympia, filling the hall for about fifteen concerts.
His first hit, in 1978, was a song called Portuguese, which sold over 200,000 copies. Other successes will follow, such as Uma mocha chorava, tirol tirolsold more than 500,000 copies, A child can make the world sing, Chuvinha (Little Rain).
At the height of her popularity in the 1980s, Linda de Suza experienced a slump in the 1990s and 2000s, after breaking her contract with her record company. Her thirteenth and final album, only livereleased in 1991.
Source: BFM TV
