Luis Osório tribute to Marco Paulo in ‘Post do Dia’, chronicled on Antena 1. The writer began to remember that the 79-year-old singer is “very sick” – at a time when some less positive news is emerging about him health – and decided to thank him for everything he did for Portuguese music and its legion of fans.
“Marco Paulo is very ill. Probably, he says himself, yes One of these days I need to go. And I would thank you for being. Because he played the songs that part of the country wanted to hear and make their own songs”, he wrote.
“He was always more than a singer (…) Marco Paulo was always there the female singer no one listened tothose soup kitchens nicknamed by the Elites, those who were little esteemed, those whom no one respected. His shows were beautiful for that reason. Why suddenly There were people who were crying without understanding what they were crying about.people who honored him without knowing why there was such horror, women who wore their Sunday clothes, their unused clothes, to listen to him and, who knows, notice his presence. It was the reason for it“, he said.
There is Marco Paulo during a break from chemotherapy cycles. The romantic singer liver cancer fights which, even with intensive treatments, show signs that do not want to be introduced. The clinical team is studying the next steps in this battle after them suspended from chemotherapy for not showing the intended results.
Marco Paulo’s first battle with cancer It was in 1996, at the age of 51, when he was diagnosed with a stomach cancer. After 24 years, in 2020, the singer was diagnosed with a breast cancer and after that, with a lung cancer. When everything seemed to be recovering well, the singer received the latest diagnosis.