Marília Mendonça, a popular Brazilian pop singer who was known as “The Queen of Suffering” for her soulful, angst-filled ballads, was killed on Friday in a small plane crash in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The plane had been headed from the city of Goiania to Caratinga, where Ms. Mendonça was to have performed in a concert on Friday night. There was no immediate word on the circumstances leading up to the crash. Ms. Mendonça was iconic in a type of Brazilian country music called sertanejo, a popular genre in Brazil. I can’t believe it.”Some in Brazil’s cosmopolitan circles had scorned Ms. Mendonça’s country ballads as “‘brega,’ or corny music,” NPR reported in 2019.

Source: New York Times November 06, 2021 18:28 UTC