Rita Lee Jones, Brazil’s million-selling “Queen of Rock” who gained an international following through her colorful and candid style and such hits as “Ovelha Negra,” “Mania de Você” and “Now Only Missing You,” has died at 75. Know more:
BRASILIA, Brazil — Rita Lee Jones, Brazil’s million-selling “Queen of Rock” who gained an international following through her colorful and candid style and such hits as “Ovelha Negra,” “Mania de Você” and “Now Only Missing You,” has died at 75.
With a career spanning six decades, the Sao Paulo native left a lasting mark with her irreverence, creativity, and compositions containing messages that helped introduce Brazilian society to feminism, while also candidly addressing her struggles with drug abuse. She was a singer and songwriter praised for her versatility, playing at least five instruments: drums, guitar, piano, harmonica, and autoharp. She was also one of the first Brazilian musicians to use [the] electric guitar.
“She brought that thing on stage, in those clothes… it was completely mythological,” the musician said. “There really is a lineage of ‘girls’ tied to rock in Brazil, of which she is a legitimate representative. But I see her as an element that distances herself from the clichés of rock.” She, from her feminine point of view, sees the clumsiness of the worn-out cliché of the male rocker, the one who plays with his legs open. She saw right through him.
In her autobiography, published the following year, she didn’t shy from describing the sexual abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of a man who had come to fix her mother’s sewing machine. In an interview with the television program Fantastico in 2020, she explained that physical frailty had prompted her to leave the stage eight years earlier.
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