{"id":980417,"date":"2021-11-07T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980417"},"modified":"2021-11-07T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:29:05","slug":"tens-of-thousands-mourn-marilia-mendonca-brazilian-singer-killed-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tens-of-thousands-mourn-marilia-mendonca-brazilian-singer-killed-in-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of Thousands Mourn Marilia Mendonca, Brazilian Singer Killed in Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftens-of-thousands-mourn-marilia-mendonca-brazilian-singer-killed-in-plane-crash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/brazilian-singer-marilia-mendonca-pictured-2019-performance-tv-tamanho-familia-rio-de-janeiro-e1636292269141-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">GOIANIA, BRAZIL (AP) \u2014 Struck with grief, tens of thousands of fans gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Mar\u00edlia Mendon\u00e7a, one of Brazil\u2019s most popular singers who was killed a day earlier&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/marilia-mendonca-brazil-singer-dead-plane-crash-ad745bf599f119803e4c16efa186a51d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">in an airplane crash<\/a>&nbsp;at age 26.<\/p>\n<p>The Latin Grammy winner and four other passengers, including her producer and uncle, perished Friday when their plane crashed while flying from Mendon\u00e7a\u2019s hometown of Goiania in Goias state to Caratinga, a small city in Minas Gerais state north of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some mourners arrived as early as Friday night to bid farewell to the country music singer, spending the night outside the large gymnasium in Goiania where Mendon\u00e7a\u2019s wake was held. People stood in lines for hours Saturday in the sizzling heat, at times taking shelter from the sun under large umbrellas, waiting to pass by her coffin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHer, dead, it doesn\u2019t make sense. Everyone likes her,\u201d said Tania Rodrigues, who was in the crowd with her 11-year-old daughter, Rosangela.<\/p>\n<p>Ilsa da Costa Oliveira, wrapped in Brazil\u2019s green and yellow flag and holding three red roses in one hand and a CD of Mendon\u00e7a in the other, spoke of the traits that made the singer so popular: \u201cShe is very charitable to the public, to women, to men, children, young people, old people \u2026 She\u2019s a good person, humble and charismatic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inside the gymnasium, fans were able to catch a glance of the singer, who was known for her feminist engagement, writing about empowering women and denouncing domestic violence. Some broke down in tears as they passed her open coffin.<\/p>\n<p>The Latin Recording Academy issued a statement saluting \u201ca promising young singer\/songwriter,\u201d calling her \u201cthe voice of a new generation of sertaneja,\u201d Brazil\u2019s country music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMar\u00edlia Mendon\u00e7a will be sorely missed, but her legacy will live on through her music,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the cause of the accident remained unknown. Photographs and videos Friday showed the plane lying just beneath a waterfall. Earlier in the day, Mendon\u00e7a had posted a video showing her walking toward the plane, guitar case in hand. She was on her way to a concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOIANIA, BRAZIL (AP) \u2014 Struck with grief, tens of thousands of fans gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Mar\u00edlia Mendon\u00e7a, one of Brazil\u2019s most popular singers who was killed a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}