Popular Portuguese singer Linda de Suza dies of coronavirus

The popular Portuguese singer

died this Wednesday at the

(Normandy, northern France) to which she had been transferred "due to respiratory failure and positive for covid-19," her agent told AFP.

"Your son

and I are saddened to inform you of the death of Linda de Suza this morning at 10:10 am,"

wrote .

She was very popular in

in the 1980s and was moved by the story of her clandestine crossing of the French border with her son and carrying only a "cardboard suitcase", an experience she described in the book

(The cardboard suitcase) published in 1984 and of which two million copies were sold.

Linda de Suza, whose real name is

, was born on February 22, 1948 in Beringel, in southern Portugal.

She had to flee from "a tyrannical family" in Salazar's very conservative Portugal, where young women like her who had children were not tolerated.

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