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The singer of Portuguese origin, Linda de Souza, died Wednesday at Gisors Hospital in Normandy, northern France, at the age of 74. The late woman was born in Berengel, southern Portugal, and immigrated to France with her son to escape her “tyrannical” family and her country’s very conservative society that does not accept single mothers. She released her songs in Portuguese and French and was very popular in the 1980s.
said an agent Diva Popular Portuguese of origin Linda de Souza She died Wednesday in Gisors Hospital in Normandy in the northwest FranceShe was admitted “due to respiratory failure and infection with the COVID-19 virus.”
“It pains me, along with Linda de Souza’s son Joao Lanka, to inform you of her death at 10:10 this morning,” Fabian Lecouver wrote in a statement.
He added that she was transferred to Gisour Hospital “very early this morning due to respiratory failure and infection with the Covid-19 virus.”
De Souza was very popular in France in the eighties of the twentieth century, and was widely influenced by the story of her secretly crossing the French border, carrying her son and her luggage in a “carton bag” only, and she recounted the details of this experience in a book titled “La Valise de carton”. It was released in 1984 and the number of copies sold reached two million.
The late woman was born on February 22, 1948 in Brengel, southern Portugal, and her original name was Teulinda Joaquina de Souza Lansa.
De Souza fled her “tyrannical” family in Portugal, whose ultra-conservative society under Antonio Salazar’s rule did not accept single mothers like her.
Millions of copies were sold, especially in France, from the CDs that Linda de Souza released throughout her artistic career, in which she married French diversions and Portuguese songs.
A large audience turned out to the Olympia Theater in Paris to attend two series of concerts, which she performed in 1983 and 1984, and then appeared in a number of programs to promote her biography, sometimes with her son Joao Carlos, who was known as “Jano”.
Her last appearance on the stage dates back to a series of concerts she performed between 2015 and 2017 as part of the “Aj Tender” tour.
In 2015, an album entitled “My Forty Golden Songs” was released, which includes her most prominent works. It was re-released last November by the “Marianne Melody” music production company, which specializes in works that make up the heritage of the French-speaking song.
France 24/AFP