Marília Mendonça, one of the crucial standard Brazilian pop singers who was often called “The Queen of Struggling” for her angst-filled ballads, was killed on Friday in a small airplane crash within the southeastern state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She was 26.
The singer’s press workplace confirmed Ms. Mendonça’s demise and mentioned her producer, Henrique Ribeiro; her uncle who was additionally her assistant, Abicieli Silveira Dias Filho; and the pilot and co-pilot of the airplane had been additionally killed.
The airplane 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 fast phrase on the circumstances main as much as the crash. The authorities mentioned they were investigating.
Ms. Mendonça was iconic in a sort of Brazilian nation music known as sertanejo, a preferred style in Brazil. Her legions of followers discovered energy in her tune lyrics, which implored ladies to reject unhealthy and abusive relationships, and instructed the tales of flawed characters.
Ms. Mendonça was a social media sensation, with 7.8 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 technology, whom, together with her distinctive voice, charisma and music received the love and admiration of all of us.”
Anitta, a funk singer standard 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 girl’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 known as ‘feminejo’ — music by and for ladies,” NPR mentioned.
Ana Ionova contributed reporting.