Singer Rita Lee, queen of Brazilian rock and psychedelia, has died at the age of 75. Star of tropicalism with the band Os Mutantes, on the road and on stages since the revolutionary sixties.
Lee was undergoing treatment for lung cancer detected a couple of years ago. She will be veiled in the planetarium of Ibirapuera Park, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, before being cremated in Rio de Janeiro. The news has immediately become the opening of newspapers and television news.