Brazilian singer Nelson Ned, one of the most famous figures of romantic music in Latin America, died on Sunday, Jan. 5 in São Paulo. He was 66 years old.
Since Dec. 24, the Brazilian singer had been living in a clinic in Granja Viana in the municipality of Cotía and was interned to a hospital in the São Paulo metropolitan area due to a pulmonary and urinary infection which took his life on Sunday, according to AFP.
Ned, better known as "the little giant of song" due to his 1.12-meter stature, is one of the best-known romantic singers in countries like Mexico, Argentina and Colombia among others, where his music never stopped being popular.
The "little giant" had been facing various health issues that worsened in 2003 when he suffered a stroke that affected his vision, reported The Examiner.
At the time of his death, the Brazilian singer suffered from diabetes, hypertension and early Alzheimers.
With a successful career that peaked during the '70s and '80s, the popular singer will be remembered for selling 45 million albums around the world, and was the first Latin American singer to sell 1 million records in the U.S., where he was also popular, mainly among Latino communities.
After three decades of excesses since he rose to fame in the '60s, in the '90s Nelson Ned became an evangelist and sang various religious songs in Portuguese and Spanish, which were also successful, according to The Huffington Post.
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