Douglas Maio was buried this Wednesday, 23, in the Metropolitan Cemetery of São Vicente, and leaves two children
Douglas May70 years old, one of the composers of the song Think about meimmortalized in the voices of Leandro and Leonardo, died this Tuesday 22.
According to the information of G1Douglas had been hospitalized since Thursday 17 with pain and diagnosed with a stomach ulcer that had perforated the organ. The composer was operated on, but after contracting a bacterium he did not resist.
Mario Soaresartist who also signs the classic sertanejo, lamented the loss of his friend in posts published on his social network.
“Today was a very sad day for me, really sad. I lost my friend, my fellow brother, Douglas Maio. He has gone to live with Jesus,” she said on video.
Composed of Douglas, Jose Ribeiro da Silva AND Mario Soares, Think about me it was generated in ten minutes. To the Globethe artists revealed that the inspiration for the song came from a painful story, shared by a friend of the composers, who was abandoned by her boyfriend. Douglas AND Josephwho played drums and guitar respectively, were tuning their instruments at home when the “desperate friend”, as they called her, arrived and told the sad situation.
“The sad story was the inspiration that was missing,” he said. Douglas. They changed parts of their friend’s story, such as replacing “let’s take the first train to happiness” with “let’s take the first plane to happiness.” And in about ten minutes the song was ready.
The story of how Leander and Leonard meeting the music is a coincidence. Chance made them listen Think about me and get excited about recording it. At that time, Mario Soares worked in the presenter team Edson Cabariti, known as balland who has had success with the program The Bolinha Club TO Band.
Mariopersistent, convinced ball to present the song on the program. The opportunity presented itself and behind the scenes while Leander and Leonard they were preparing for a concert, they heard the chorus of the song being played on stage. “Good music”, praised Leander. Leonardo, convinced, saw the hit potential in the song and shared it with those around him. After Mário left the stage, the duo expressed interest in recording the song.
In 2017, in an interview for the program Sunday showfrom the documentation, Douglas he said that he was making a lot of money with music, but that the capital no longer existed. After enjoying the success of Think about methe composer tried to repeat the dose and continued to write, also working as a bricklayer, but with no luck.
Douglas was buried this Wednesday, 23, in the Metropolitan Cemetery of São Vicente, and leaves two sons, Douglas Gomes da Silva Junior and Denner Glauber da Silva.
Source: Terra
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