Brazilian rock singer Rita Lee is dead. Lee died on Monday evening at the age of 75 at her home in São Paulo, her family reported on Tuesday on the Instagram account of the legendary singer. The cause of death was initially unknown. Lee was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021 and has been in treatment ever since. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his condolences and called Rita Lee Jones de Carvalho “one of the greatest and most brilliant names in Brazilian music, an artist ahead of her time”.
The multi-instrumentalist rose to prominence with the group “Os Mutantes” from 1966 – two years after the beginning of the military dictatorship in Brazil – and made a decisive contribution to the “Tropicalia” movement, a politically charged mix of rock and folk music from the Brazilian hinterland. In her solo career, Lee created songs that became very popular in Brazil, while also bringing up themes of feminism and her drug problems.
In her nearly six-decade career, the red-haired woman has recorded more than 20 albums, performed with Brazilian legends Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, opened the Rolling Stones shows in Brazil, and won the Latin Grammy for Best Rock Album in Portuguese. The term “Queen of Rock” that came from this, Lee himself thought kitschy. She preferred «Patroness of Freedom». (sda/dpa)
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