The artist’s greatest success will remain an autobiographical book, “the cardboard suitcase”, a rare document testifying to Portuguese immigration in France. She died on December 28 at the age of 74.
by Bruno Lesprit
She was a variety singer, but her great success will remain an autobiographical book, the cardboard suitcase, published in 1984 at Carrère-Lafon, a bestseller who was to sell more than two million copies and rare document testifying Portuguese immigration to France. Linda de Suza died at the age of 74, announced on Wednesday, December 28, his agent, Fabien Lecoire, and her son, Joao launched, adding that she was transferred that morning to the hospital Gisors (Eure) “for respiratory failure” and that it was “positive at COVID-19”.
The one who was born Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa launched, on February 22, 1948 in Beringel (Portugal), in the southern Alentejo region, had been able to touch hearts with the story of her career started in miserable conditions (soup soup (soup popular), within “a tyrannical family” (alcoholic father, ruthless mother) with eight children, before being placed in boarding school with nuns in Lisbon. The country is then governed by the moral order of the Estado Novo set up by António de Oliveira Salazar. No benevolence is granted to her when she became a mother-in-law, at 20, at the birth of Joao, in July 1968. “My friends had been banned from talking to me. I was the shame of the hamlet,” she.
It is therefore with her son and for only luggage this “cardboard suitcase” that she migrates clandestinely in France in 1969 before fixing herself in the Paris region in 1973. Wait the slum of Ivry-sur- Seine (Val-de-Marne) and work in a Kremlin-Bicêtre canning, then households in hotels in the capital. But also the hope of another life when she begins to sing at Louisette, the Guinguette of the Saint-Ouen flea market (Seine-Saint-Denis)-against “a bowl of soup”, according to her-, Fados by Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999). His model with Dalida (1933-1987).
There, Linda de Suza is noted by the composer Alex Alstone, collaborator of Tino Rossi and Maurice Chevalier, then by the parolière of Claude François, Vline Buggy, who will contribute to his first songs. She signs a registration contract with producer Claude Carrère, the man who launched Sheila. Arranged by Jean-Claude Petit, his first forty-five bilingual towers, a Portuguese/UM Portuguess, in 1978, already announced the program: “Two cardboard suitcases on the land of France/a Portuguese has just left its Portugal/ Others he came to try his luck. “The title is a success that allows him a first invitation to television at Michel Drucker.
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