When approached by CNN report, Cadu Nolla, the husband of singer Lilian Knapp, said he did not want to talk much about the state of his wife in her last days after death last Saturday (22), at 76. He defined the last three weeks of her life as a “fast and painful process” and said that before that “she was doing her things normally, we were traveling and everything.”
However, he believes it is important to have her memory preserved for fans. “Fans and audiences have to see her as she always was: a beautiful, healthy woman, who did exercise, eaten healthy food, didn’t smoke, didn’t drink and helped everyone,” he said exclusively to CNN.
The singer, who was successful in and had a career in pair with her brother, Leno ,. The family even campaigned to raise funds for medical treatment and called for strength from fans.
Widower wants to preserve his legacy in music
The partnership between Cadu and Lilian was both in life and in music, and I intend to continue bringing his work to people. “I will keep doing what I have always done all these years, I will continue to take her music to the best I can to everyone who likes her,” says the widower, who wants to donate part of his collection to those who want to take care and catalog. “I will preserve my collection of some of it, not everything, because it is a huge amount of reports and photos, but I will maintain a reasonable amount with me and the rest I will donate to a museum,” he said.
He also says that the singer had a life of many achievements. “The only wish she had, she couldn’t fulfill, was to see the great -grandson. And when they arrived in Brazil, she could no longer see him, ”said the music producer. According to him, all the other wishes she fulfilled and he did all who were within her reach. “She was a super happy person and completed me a lot. I completed her, so we did everything together. ”
One of her last wishes, even, was about her burial: 3 years ago Lilian had “hugged,” as her husband considered Islamic faith, and wanted her burial to follow all the rites. “I made her desire to bury her on consecrated soil, make a Muslim ceremony. She rested as Muslim, is there in her corner, wrapped in that white linen, fragrant, washed, as the tradition asks, ”he explained.
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