Find out why Rita Lee will be veiled at the planetarium, and not at Alesp

music icon, Rita Lee was close to the planetaryat the Ibirapuera’s Parklocated at South Zone in São Paulo, and this fact made the place chosen for his farewell. Is it there that the body of national rock queen will be veiled this Wednesday, the 10th, instead of being on Monumental Hall of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp), where artists’ funerals usually take place.

The ceremony will be open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm.

As detailed by “g1”in the book “Rita Lee – an autobiography”, published in 2016, is told in the chapter “mutatis mutandis” that the singer went to the planetarium weekly. It was about yourweekly must”, right after the visit she would go to a neighboring snack bar to eat a banana-split.

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It is reported in the book that the singer also imagined, in the end, how the minutes after her death would be. Lee, along the lines she wrote about that moment, even took the opportunity to pass a warning to politicians. “No politician would dare to attend my funeral, since I have never been to the podium of any of them and I would get up from the coffin to boo them”wrote the artist.

The singer described the area where Ibirapuera Park is currently located as the “Enchanted Forest”, the ideal place to set up a small camp and have picnics on Sundays.

According to the queen of national rock, visits to the site were made in a group, six women. Each one chose a tree or plant to care for, removing dry leaves and weeds. The members also planted fruit and vegetable trees in the surroundings of the park.

According to “g1”, the singer, when recalling the inauguration of the park, in celebration of the 400 years of the city of São Paulo, mentions that “the dream is over”their small vegetable gardens were destroyed, and the forest gave way to asphalt, cement and “Doubtful Buildings”.

Farewell to Rita Lee: find out what the wake of the queen of rock in SP will be like.

Open to the public, Rita Lee’s funeral will take place this Wednesday at the planetarium in Ibirapuera Park, which she calls the “enchanted forest”.

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Rita Lee’s father reportedly viewed the space intervention with disapproval and refused to attend the opening party.

Even so, Ibirapuera Park continued to be a landmark in the life of the Brazilian singer, being mentioned many times throughout the chapters of Lee’s book.

Featured Photo: Rita Lee and the planetarium at Ibirapuera Park. Reproduction/Guilherme Samora/TV Globo.