Brazilian singer Rita Lee, an icon of Brazilian rock and culture, died Tuesday in São Paulo at 75 from lung cancer, her relatives said.
Following the singer’s death of the band Os Mutantes, which marked part of the avant-garde of the sixties in Brazilian music, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decreed a three-day mourning for the whole country.
Lee died “surrounded by all the love and her family, as she always wanted”, says the family’s statement.
The singer became famous with Os Mutantes within the cultural movement called Tropicalismo and for her solo career, with classic international rock and pop songs such as Lanza Perfume, Baila Conmigo, Mania de Voce, Oveja Negra, and Amor y Sexo.
The wake will be open to the public at the Planetarium of Ibirapuera Park, the main green lung of the city of São Paulo.