The Portuguese singer Marco Paulo, a well-known interpreter of significant themes of popular music in Portugal in the 1980s and 1990s, for example I have two loves or Joanwho died last Thursday at the age of 79. SIC released the news. The interpreter and TV presenter has been struggling with cancer in recent years.
Marco Paulo, stage name João Simão da Silva, was born on January 21, 1945 and is one of the most successful Portuguese singers. Throughout his career, which began professionally in the 1960s, he participated in several editions of the Festival da Canção, and his records sold more than five million copies. It has some of its most famous themes Nobody, nobody (1978), I have two loves (1980), brunette brunette (1984), Whenever the sun shines (1988) or Joan (1988); His arrival in the 1990s was a great success stars and maniacs (1991).
His career took a new shape when he became a television presenter as well as continuing to sing and tour. First on RTP, with liver I have two lovesin 1994, a Sunday night talk show that had more than 60 broadcasts, and Music in the heart1996. It was in that year that he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He underwent surgery in June of the same year and underwent chemotherapy sessions.
He returned to singing, changed publishers, and in 2011 made his soap opera debut with a special appearance in Blood Tiesfrom SIC. The broadcaster of the Impresa group came to his home in recent years, where he only presented a weekly program — Hello Marco Paulo — as it was also shown in the series of fiction dedicated to his life, and to his name, launched on the Opto platform. Hello Marco Paulo it began occupying the Saturday afternoon of SIC, where the singer was partnered with Ana Marques, and then moved to the morning of the same day.
In 2022, he received the rank of commander of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. In 2020, she publicly announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would undergo treatment. At the end of that year, he publicized the deterioration of his health condition when he was diagnosed with a lung tumor.
Marco Paulo appeared on several SIC programs and made special appearances in several soap operas: daytime programs Happy House e Hello Portugal to soap operas Good world, The honeymoon or Lucky strike. A three episode mini-series about his life, Marco Paulo, It was a big hit with viewers on SIC when it aired on 1 January 2023. Hello Marco Pauloa program under his own name, his last work.