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The entertainment industry in Brazil has been turned to a mourning state as an Award-winning Brazilian singer Marília Mendonça was killed in a plane crash along with four others after the private jet carrying the star, her producer and her uncle went down near a waterfall in southeastern Brazil on Friday.



Reports have it that Mendonça, 26, was on her way to a concert in the Minas Gerais city of Caratinga when the private aircraft crashed.

Mendonça, who won a Latin Grammy Award in 2019, leaves behind one-year-old son named Léo.

Two of the four other victims were identified as her producer Henrique Ribeiro, and her uncle and advisor Abicieli Silveira Dias.


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