The news was given by his son, filmmaker Zeca Ferreira, on Instagram; The artist had been fighting cancer for 1 year
The singer and songwriter Maria Cristina Buarque died on this Easter Sunday (20.br.2025), at 74. The news was given by his son, filmmaker Zeca Ferreira, director of “lettuce nights” on Instagram.
Cristina was the daughter of historian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and painter and pianist Maria Amelia Cesário Alvim, as well as sister of singer-songwriter Chico Buarque, singer and former Minister of Culture Ana de Hollanda and singer-songwriter, who died in 2018.
He recorded the first LP, called “Cristina” in 1974, where he launched some of his greatest hits, such as the song “How many tears”, by composer Manacia, who made her nationally known.
According to the newspaper, the singer had been fighting breast cancer for 1 year. In addition to Zeca, Cristina leaves 4 more children: Ana, Paulo, Antonio and Piiizinha, according to the filmmaker. On Instagram, he published:
“A reverse singer to the spotlight. How to explain such a business at any time? But how to explain it at this specific time? But that’s that the whole life of this woman we had, the big luck to have as a mother. A lifetime of love for the craft and good shadow. ‘Good is the choir’, she said, and would live her life hidden in the middle of the voices were not such a refined bearing, the love to turn the shadows of Brazilian music in search of small pearls not played by success, because success, in those and times, has a short range. It is beautiful and clear image but it blurs the other beauties that would be lost in the shadow were not these immune people to the immediate.
Human being more whole I have ever met. Lighthouse, head, braba, the whole fucking owner.
Go in peace, mother ”.
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