The singer of Portuguese origin, Linda de Suza, left us this morning in Normandy. She succumbed to the consequences of Covid-19. She leaves behind a huge career but also a heavy past.
“His son Joao Lança and I have the pain to inform you of the death this morning at 10:10 a.m. of Linda de Suza”, wrote Fabien Lecoeuvre, his agent. Popular in France in the 80sshe had managed to move by recounting her clandestine arrival at the French border, with only luggage “a cardboard suitcase”. This is how she named her autobiographical book published in 1984. A true queen of variety, she fled “a tyrannical family” in his native country very conservative, at a time when single mothers, like Linda de Suza, were rejected. The singer filled the Olympia several times between 1983 and 1984. She had not been on stage since 2017, with the tour Tender Age. Linda de Suza didn’t have a happy past. She went through terrible ordeals which she recounted. Plunged into financial distress, which is reminiscent of that of Loana at the present time, the last years of the singer were dark.
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The dark past of Linda de Suza
The ’80s star has truly been through hell. Defrauded by her relatives, she confessed to having been forced into prostitution in her youth. That’s what she says in her book Silver Tearspublished in 2015. “This book will tell the whole truth… How I was robbed, humiliated, betrayed by those in whom I had given all my trust. I want to transmit to young people the need to learn, to know so as not to be misled“she had confessed before the release of the book.
Very young from Portugal, she combines odd jobs to survive. It was then that she met a man “who was her father’s age”, with whom things began to go wrong. Indeed, Linda de Suza had to accept some gestures for money. “Was he aware that he was buying a semblance of love? I’m not sure and I’d rather not know. After all, it wouldn’t have changed anything. I had no feelings for him. I was just doing him and him a favor, in his own way”, she wrote in her book. Died at the age of 74, she will remain engraved in the memories.