She was well known in France in the 1980s and was moved by the story of her clandestine crossing of the French border with her son and carrying only a “cardboard suitcase”.
The popular Portuguese singer Linda de Suza passed away this wednesday in hospital of Gisors (Normandy, northern France) to which she had been transferred “due to respiratory failure and positive for covid-19,” her agent told AFP.
“Your son joao lance and I are saddened to inform you of the passing of Linda de Suza this morning at 10:10 a.m.,” he wrote. Fabien Lecoeuvre.
It was very popular in France in the 1980s and was moved by the story of her clandestine crossing of the French border with her son and carrying only a “cardboard suitcase”, an experience she described in the book ‘The Cardboard Suitcase’ (The cardboard suitcase) published in 1984 and of which two million copies were sold.
Linda de Suza, whose real name is Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Spearwas born on February 22, 1948 in Beringel, in southern Portugal.
She had to flee from “a tyrannical family” in Salazar’s very conservative Portugal, where young women like her who had children were not tolerated.
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