Marília Mendonça Dies In A Plane Crash In Minas Gerais

Marília Mendonça is one of the main names in Brazilian music today. She accumulates fans throughout Brazil and has some of the most expressive numbers in national streaming. On the YouTube channel itself, there are 22 million subscribers, it has more than one song that surpassed the 500 million views mark and is currently included in the platform’s popular songs ranking with the song Para de chama me pratrair , in partnership with the duo Maiara and Maraísa. Spotify is also very successful, with an average of over 8 million monthly listeners and songs that exceed 90 million plays. The singer died this Friday (5/11), in a plane crash, while flying to a series of shows in the interior of Minas Gerais.

The Minas Gerais Fire Department reported in a note that the popular 26-year-old singer died after the impact of the twin-engine plane in which she was transported with four other people, who also died.

The device, model Beech Aircraft, in which the five occupants were traveling, crashed around 15:30 local time (18:30 GMT) in a mountainous region of Caratinga, in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais, where Mendonça was going to offer a concert tonight.

According to images released on social networks, the plane, which had the papers to fly up to date – according to the Brazilian authorities – crashed near a waterfall, in an area difficult for rescue teams to access.

At 26, the country singer had a meteoric rise. At the age of 20, in 2016, she had already recorded and released the first DVD of her career, in which he sang live in Goiânia. In the first release, he introduced the public to the first big hit of her career, Infiel. The song elevated her status and placed her as one of the exponents of a movement later dubbed feminejo. Other outstanding names in the style are Naiara Azevedo, and the duos Simone and Simaria and Maiara and Maraísa. Marília joined Maiara and Maraísa for the group Patroas, which has already released two albums.

The success of Sertaneja, however, is the result of many years of work. Marília Mendonça began composing at a very young age. According to the singer’s website, she was already starting to write her first lyrics at 12 years old. Even before she broke out with Infiel, She had hits such as Cristiano Araújo’s It’s with her that I’m in the voice of Cristiano Araújo and Till you return and Take care of her, famous songs sung by Henrique Juliano. Marília also won a Latin Grammy in 2019, when she was six months pregnant, with the album Todos os cantos, Volume 1 (Live). She competes for this year’s award with the album Patroas , along with Maiara and Maraísa.

In her personal life, she dated the singer from Goiás Murilo Huff. They took over the relationship in 2019 and announced the end of mid-2020. They got back together and ended again in 2021. The two had a son together, Léo, who is two years old.

Government of Brazil and former President Lula mourn the death of Marília

For its part, the Brazilian government mourned the death of Mendonça, who was very popular in his country of origin.

“Marília Mendonça leaves a legacy for Brazilian regional music and the culture of Brazil, clearly it will not be forgotten; our sentiments to family and friends, rest in peace, ‘singer of the world'”, expressed the Ministry of Culture of the Government in a release.

Meanwhile, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva highlighted the singer’s “charisma” in a message posted on his Twitter account.

“Our sentiments to the families and the millions of fans of music, the charisma and irreverence of the singer Marília Mendonça, may God give strength and comfort the hearts of all those who lost a loved one in this tragic accident”, expressed the leader of the Brazilian left.

Amelia Warner writes all the Latest Articles. She mostly covers Entertainment topics, but at times loves to write about movie reviews as well.

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