Marília Dias Mendonça † (July 22, 1995 - November 5, 2021 [aged 26]) was a Brazilian singer-songwriter and YouTuber known for her country music.
Personal life[]
She was born on July 22, 1995, in Cristianópolis, Goiás, Brazil. At the age of 12, she began writing songs for Brazilian artists like Henrique & Juliano, Jorge & Mateus, Wesley Safadão, and Matheus & Kauan.[1] Her career started in 2014 with the release of her eponymous extended play, and released her first single "Impasse" featuring Henrique & Juliano in 2015. On March 4, 2016, Mendonça released her first album, "Marília Mendonça: Ao Vivo", featuring her breakout hit "Infiel" which became one of the most performed songs in Brazil that year. Over the next five years, she would release six albums, nine extended plays, and 27 charted songs, of which "Esqueça-me se for capaz" featuring Maiara & Maraisa peaked the highest at number 15. In March 2019, Spotify announced that Mendonça was the most streamed female singer in Brazil. At the 20th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2019, Mendonça won a Grammy for Best Sertaneja Music Album with "Todos os Cantos".
After performing at her Side B concert in August 2020, Mendonça spoke about a time at a gay nightclub in the city of Goiânia, where one of her band members kissed "the most beautiful woman in his life". The band members then began joking that the woman he kissed was in fact transgender, which caused controversy due the comments being considered transphobic. The hashtag "#MaríliaTransfóbica" began trending on Twitter, and two days later she issued a statement apologizing for the comments, saying "Guys, I accept that I was wrong and that I need to improve. I'm very sorry, with all my heart. I will learn from my mistakes. I will not justify myself."
On November 5, 2021, a plane carrying Mendonça, her uncle, producer, and two pilots crashed in a river near the town of Caratinga, located in the state of Minas Gerais. The plane was expected to land at an airport in the nearby town of Piedade de Caratinga, as she was holding a concert nearby. All five of the occupants perished, and the crash is currently under investigation by the Civil Police and the National Civil Aviation Agency.[2] The funeral for the victims was held at the Goiânia Arena in Goiânia the next day, where around 100,000 people attended.
She is survived by her son Léo (born: December 16, 2019).
History[]
She joined YouTube on May 13, 2013, and uploaded two videos on the same day of the account being created.
On April 8, 2020, as the Coronavirus pandemic caused a nationwide shutdown in Brazil and cancellation of in-person concerts, Mendonça livestreamed a concert from her house called "Live Marília Mendonça - #LiveLocalMariliaMendonca". The stream reached a reported peak of 3.2 million concurrent viewers, which at the time was the second-largest livestream in YouTube history. Her channel gained an estimated 1.8 million subscribers that day, which was the record for the most subscribers gained in a single day, until tomiii 11 broke it exactly one year later.
References[]
- ↑ História - Marília Mendonça.
- ↑ Marília Mendonça: Popular Brazil singer dies in plane crash at 26. BBC News (November 5, 2021).