The 26-year-old artist died this Friday in a plane crash when the plane in which she was traveling for a concert in the state of Minas Gerais crashed.
The admirers of the 26-year-old singer and millions of followers on social networks and musical platforms, whose death caused a great national commotion, made a kilometer line around the gym in the city of Goiania (downtown) this Saturday to be able to enter the pavilion and approach the coffin.
At least 100,000 people came to the Goiania Arena gym to say goodbye to the singer and songwriter Marília Mendonça, one of the most popular artists in Brazil and winner of a Latin Grammy in 2019, who died on Friday in a plane crash.
But many did not reach the gym in the three hours that its doors remained open and had to join the thousands of fans who took to the streets of Goiania to attend the funeral parade led by a Fire Department car carrying the body and some musicians friends.
The funeral procession of about 30 minutes culminated in the Parque Memorial de Goiania cemetery, where the singer was buried in a ceremony reserved for family and friends.
The Goiania Arena gym was donated for the wake by the governor of the state of Goias, Ronaldo Caiado -who also declared an official mourning of three days in the province-, due to the lack of capacity of other stages for what was already planned as a massive ceremony .
The gym doors were open between 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. local time (4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. GMT) for admirers of the singer who chanted some of the best-known songs of the “queen of suffering”, thus known for her melancholic and deep style and by lyrics dealing with jealousy, betrayal, abandonment and disappointment in love.
“No one is going to suffer alone. We are all going to suffer”, was the song with which they accompanied the exit of the funeral procession.
The popularity of the singer could be measured in the almost 40 million followers she had on the Instagram network or in the 18.5 million that followed her on Spotify, a music platform where she ranked 41st on the list of the most popular artists. heard, above idols like Michael Jackson, Katy Perry or The Beatles.
Last year, when she gave an online presentation from her residence amid confinement by the pandemic, she attracted 3 million followers, making her the star of the world’s most popular live show.
country music
The singer’s wake was attended by several of the main representatives of the so-called “sertaneja” (Brazilian country) music, among which the duo Maiara and Maraisa, Henrique and Juliano, and Jorge and Mateus.
Mendonça was the greatest reference of Sertaneja music, one of the most popular styles of the South American giant, which revolutionized with several themes about female empowerment, with which it put an end to the male dominance in this genre.
Mendonça died on Friday afternoon due to the fall of the plane in which he was traveling to Caratinga, a city in the state of Minas Gerais where he would offer one of his first concerts after almost two years away from the boxes due to the covid pandemic.
The other four occupants of the aircraft also died in the accident, including its producer Henrique Ribeiro, his uncle and advisor Abicieli Silveira, and the pilot and co-pilot of the aircraft.
Born on July 22, 1995 in the municipality of Cristianópolis, in the state of Goiás, Mendonça began composing at the age of 12.
In 2016 he stood out on the Brazilian music scene with the launch of his first album, which he named after him and in which he included hugely successful songs, such as “Saudade do Meu Ex”, “Folgado” and “Infiel”, the latter song it was the most sung and played of that year in Brazil.
In 2019 he received the Latin Grammy in the category of Best Sertaneja Music Album for his project “Todos os Cantos”. (I)
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