IS dead at 91, in her home in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian singer Elza Soares: family members communicated this through her Instagram profile. Soares was born in 1930 in Rio de Janiero and after a very complicated childhood and adolescence she began singing in the 1950s and in the 1960s she became famous as a samba singer. In his career, during which he also devoted himself to other musical genres, he recorded over thirty discs. She was also talked about because of her relationship with the footballer Garrincha, which ended in the Eighties.