Rita Lee was a pioneer of the Brazilian music scene. Her extravagant outfits and songs that speak unbridled about love, sex and freedom, have made her a feminist symbol.
She retired from the stage in 2012, at the age of 64, citing "physical fragility" The singer and songwriter died at her Sao Paulo home on Monday night, her family announced Tuesday on social networks. She had been suffering from lung cancer since 2011 and had been living as a recluse in her country home in São Paulo.