The singer died at the age of 75 on Monday 8, for a bacterial infection
The singer Angela Ro Ro He died at the age of 75 on Monday, 8. His body will be veiled in the ecumenical chapel of the Crematorio del Penitio and the cemetery, in Caju, Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday 9. The ceremony will take place from 13th to 16 hours and will be open to the public, according to the singer’s lawyer.
Considered one of the great voices of MPB, she had been hospitalized since July, after a tracheostomy. Also according to the professional, the singer’s desire was to be buried in the cemetery of San João Batista in Botafogo, near his friend Cazuza.
In a statement, the lawyer Carlos Eduardo Lyrio confirmed Estadão The death of the singer. The text also clarifies the reason for the artist’s death: “Angela died this morning at Silvestre Hospital, where she was hospitalized for a contract infection at the hospital itself. Your only four -year companion is absolutely dismayed by his death.”
“Her true and current partner does not want to identify at the moment. Regarding the cause of death, the singer contracted another bacterium in intensive care in which it was that it was not totally isolated by other patients”, adds the declaration.
Who is Angela Ro Ro?
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1949, Angela Maria Diniz Gonsalves took its name from the singer Angela Maria (1929-2018). Only daughter, she studied classic piano since childhood, at the same time when she gained the nickname of Ro Ro, due to her Rauca voice.
In the early 1970s, he went to Europe. Ro was known by director Glauber Rocha, one of the directors of Novo cinema. It was he who introduced Veloso to Caetano, at the time exiled to London after being arrested by the Brazilian military dictatorship.
He was invited by Caetano to participate in the cultivated album today Fuck youin which he played the harmonica on the track NostalgiaNext to Jards Macalé, áureo de Souza and Tutty Moreno. At this point, Ro already invented, but in English, songs that were subsequently poured into Portuguese.
He released the first album, which only took his name in 1979. He was immediately successful with three songs, Love, my great lovewho has texts of Ana earth, Tola you were AND There is no head.
Two years later, he said his album Scandalwho had the same name as a song that Caetano Veloso composed especially for her. Shortly thereafter, he arrived with Simple affectionby João Donato and Abel Silva.
In 2018, he declared himself “gay” during an interview with Pedro Bial and said he had been beaten by homophobia in the 70s and 80s.
Source: Terra
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