Singer Juliano Cezar Dies During Concert in the Countryside of Paraná

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Juliano Cezar, 59, died in the early hours of this Tuesday, December 31st, after suffering a cardiac arrest while performing a concert in Uniflor, in the interior of Paraná.

The information was officially confirmed by Explosion Music, a career management office, The wake will be held in the singer’s hometown, Passos, Minas Gerais.

Videos circulate on social networks showing the exact moment when the artist suffered the parade.

In the middle of a song, he seems to feel pain, gets bent, gets close to the musicians that accompanied him, tries to hold the pedestal and falls on stage.

Death in the middle of the show caused commotion among the fans. “I’m too shocked because I went to Juliano Cezar’s last concert,” wrote one of the fans. “I watched him die in Uniflor,” said another fan.

He emerged three decades ago with Joel Marques’ “I Didn’t Learn to Say Goodbye,” then recorded by the duo Leandro and Leonardo. At that time, he won the Sharp Award as a revelation and was nominated for the Latin Grammy.

Throughout his career, he recorded ten CDs, three DVDs and made success with songs like “Cowboy Vagabundo” and “Bem aos Olhos da Lua”. Before his artistic career, Juliano Cezar was a rodeo player and farmer.

On Sunday (29), the singer Andreia Ribeiro also died after having a bad time on stage, in José de Freitas, Piauí. She had a sudden illness during a concert, was taken to the city hospital and transferred to the ICU of the Teresina Emergency Hospital, but suffered cardiac arrests and died.