SAD! 26-Yr-Old Grammy Award Winner Dies In Plane Crash Moment After Sharing Video

Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil’s most popular singers and a Latin Grammy winner, died Friday in an airplane crash on her way to a concert. She was 26.

Mendonça’s press office confirmed her death in a statement, and said four other passengers on the flight; Marília’s music producer, Henrique Ribeiro, her uncle and adviser, Abicieli Silveira Dias Filho; the plane’s pilot and co-pilot also perished.

Their plane crashed between Mendonça’s hometown Goiania and Caratinga, a small city in Minas Gerais state located north of Rio de Janeiro.

Photographs and videos show the plane laying just beneath a waterfall; Mendonça had posted a video this afternoon showing her walking toward the plane, guitar case in hand.

The police in Minas Gerais while speaking on the saddened incident noted that the plane crashed in the area of Caratinga, in Rio de Janeiro’s north.

Marilia won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Sertaneja Music Album. Her YouTube page has nearly 14 billion views.

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro in his reaction said the country is in shock and described Marília as one of the greatest artists of her generation.

He took to his Twitter and wrote, “We feel like we have lost someone very close to us.”