She was en path to a live performance on the time of the crash, which killed 4 different folks along with the singer.
The reason for the crash remains to be underneath investigation, however in an announcement on Friday, the Minas Gerais Electrical Firm (CEMIG) stated Mendonça’s aircraft had hit a cable on an electrical tower belonging to the ability agency.
Minas Gerais police chief Ivan Lopes Gross sales stated at a information convention Friday that it was nonetheless too early to find out the reason for the crash however added the dispersed particles discipline steered the plane had “hit one thing earlier than the aircraft fell.”
Mendonça rapidly rose to fame within the common sertanejo nation music style and made her mark by singing about ladies’s empowerment in an surroundings historically dominated by male musicians.
She was the most-listened to artist in Brazil on Spotify in 2019 and 2020, in line with her PR agency, and had greater than 38 million followers on Instagram.
Ronaldo Caiado, governor of Mendonça’s house state of Goiás, stated her household had confirmed a funeral for the singer would start round 8 a.m. native time Saturday in an area within the state capital, Goiânia. Caiado wrote on Twitter that he expects as much as 100,000 mourners at her funeral.
Caetano Veloso, a septuagenarian stalwart of the Brazilian style MPB — Brazilian pop music — praised her on Twitter because the “marvelous Mendonça” and stated the information had left him in tears.
“Younger and gifted, Marília was the protagonist of a brand new chapter of Brazilian nation music and inspiration for a number of singers within the phase. The nation is shocked and mourns this loss that got here too early,” Castro stated in a information launch.
