Europe 1 with AFP 12:03 p.m., December 28, 2022, modified at 12:13 p.m., December 28, 2022

Popular singer of Portuguese origin Linda de Suza died on Wednesday at Gisors hospital (Normandy) where she had been transferred "for respiratory failure and positive for Covid 19", announced her agent to AFP.

Popular singer of Portuguese origin Linda de Suza died on Wednesday at Gisors hospital (Normandy) where she had been transferred "for respiratory failure and positive for Covid 19", announced her agent to AFP.

"His son Joao Lança and I have the pain to inform you of the death this morning at 10:10 am" of Linda de Suza, wrote Fabien Lecoeuvre.

Very popular in France in the 1980s, she moved with the story of her clandestine crossing of the French border with only a "cardboard suitcase" and had sold millions of records, mainly in France.

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