She was an essential voice of the Portuguese-speaking culture and the Portuguese community. Popular singer Linda de Suza died on Wednesday morning at Gisors hospital in Eure, her agent Fabien Lecoeuvre and her son announced in a press release. She was 74 years old.
Hospitalized since early in the morning, she succumbed to respiratory failure, when she had tested positive for Covid-19, specifies the short text. “She had been hospitalized at the end of August, she was dehydrated and anemic, she forgot to eat, no longer ate, she had lost a lot of weight,” says Fabien Lecoeuvre, who had also been her tutor for a year.
“I saw her last Saturday, she was fine, she had been in a convalescent home since then and was recovering slowly.” It was there that she would have contracted the Covid-19. “She had only had one vaccine, specifies Fabien Lecoeuvre. She had lung problems, she was a heavy smoker, she smoked between two and three packs of cigarettes a day. »
A story that moved the French
Her real name Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Lança, she had moved France in 1984 with the publication of a book in which she recounted her clandestine crossing of the French border, during which her only luggage was a “suitcase cardboard-based “.
She had sold millions of records, mainly in France during the 1980s, thanks to several hits, such as “Uma moça chorava”, “Tiroli-tirola” or “A child can make the world sing”.
Sick for several weeks, “she felt like leaving, she wanted to die,” says her agent who worked with her on the editing of a DVD released a few weeks ago. “It held her, I came regularly to the hospital, we chose together the extracts on my laptop, he confides. I have the impression that she dropped as soon as the DVD was ready”.