The musician, who was Rita’s partner for almost 50 years, did not hold back his emotions during an interview with Fantástico.
On the last day 8, Rita Lee died at the age of 75 leaving nostalgia throughout Brazil, but especially in his family.
The musician and husband of the singer, Roberto de Carvalho70 years old, vented about the loss of his beloved during an interview with Fantástico, which aired last Sunday, 14. The couple had three children, beto lee, John Lee It is Antonio Lee.
“A great privilege, a great privilege. And we became half. I can’t tell you that Rita and Roberto…Roberto is Rita too, Rita is Roberto too. In life or in death. And she’s still me.” he said.
Roberto told about the hits he wrote with Rita: “We started doing things together because she heard: ‘What did you play there? This is a song, it’s a song’. Then she would come with the notebook, always fast”.
The composer also said that he does not know if he wants to stop with music: “Maybe I’ll stay like this forever. It will always be difficult. I don’t have the slightest pretension that it will be easy.”
Rita Lee was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021, during the interview Roberto said that recent times have been difficult due to the singer’s health.
“Fear, anxiety, dread. Together with João, my son, the two of us who took care of the whole situation and we tried to inform ourselves as much as possible… Because we were thrown into a universe that we didn’t know about”, explained.
He also recalled Rita’s will to live: “She wanted to live, she didn’t want to leave. Until the end, she never wanted to leave. She always had a lot of stuff. Plans to write, to make music. I would even say to her: ‘I would even like to trade places with you because you have so much more to do than me. I go and you stay'”.
“She was losing… her ability to walk, her ability to think. However, her final moments were light, calm, sweet. We were all together with her, we set up a hospital room.”, said.
“And the last stage in bed, she looked like a little child, a little bird. Her breathing stopped… it was peaceful, it was peaceful”, he said.
Source: Maxima
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