Paulinha Abelha: report on cause of death should be released on Friday, says Calcinha Preta businessman

The report on what caused the death of singer Paulinha Abelha should be released on Friday, said on Wednesday the manager of the band Calcinha Preta, Diassis Marques.

According to him, the doctors await the arrival of the results of all the tests that were done.

“We are awaiting the rest of the tests and the results of the biopsies that were taken. We didn’t want to disclose one thing today and another tomorrow. As soon as the doctors close, the report we will disclose”, he guaranteed.

The widower of singer Paulinha Abelha, Clevinho Venâncio, also spoke with g1 and said he understands the fans’ appeal for the cause of death to be clarified.

“By Friday we should have an answer. Doctors will talk to us and we will disclose,” he said.

This Wednesday, at 19:00, there is a mass for the seventh day of the singer’s death in the Parish of Nossa Senhora Santana, in the municipality of Simão Dias, the city where Paulinha Abelha was born.

On Thursday, another mass will be celebrated, this one takes place in Aracaju, in the Parish of Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro, in the Orlando Dantas Complex, in the South Zone of the capital.

Hospitalization after tour

The singer was hospitalized in Aracaju on February 11, after experiencing pain shortly after arriving in the city after a tour with the band in São Paulo.

Her condition quickly deteriorated. On the 14th, the singer was transferred to the ICU; three days later, Paulinha went into a coma. On the 23rd, the singer’s neurological injuries worsened and her brain death was confirmed.

Husband talks about using teas and medicines

In an interview with Fantástico this Sunday (27), Paulinha Abelha’s husband, Clevinho Santos, talked about the artist’s medication routine (see videos below).

“Sometimes there was a recording, she would take the medication and train, but she never got to take any type of anabolic, but the drugs she always took were these, more diuretics. Almost every week she was taking it. When she had a show, one thing she wanted to dry off, these slimming teas,” he said.

Who was Paulinha Abelha?

Born in the municipality of Simão Dias, in the interior of Sergipe, Paula de Menezes Nascimento Leça Viana, worked with her father selling in street markets. She began her career as a professional singer in the band Panela de Barro, where she teamed up with singer Daniel Diau.

The two returned to sing together in Calcinha Preta, which is also currently composed by Silvânia Aquino and Bell Oliver. The band’s history has come and gone, but it began in the late 90’s, when manager Gilton Andrade discovered it. In all, she recorded 21 CDs and three DVDs.

The singer was honored in the song that bears her name, “Paulinha”. She left the band in 2009 to join G.D.Ó. do Forró with Marlus Viana, with whom she was married. In 2014, she returned to Calcinha Preta. In 2016, Paulinha left the band to form a duo with Silvânia Aquino, returning to the group in 2018.

Among the biggest hits of Paulinha and the band Calcinha Preta are the songs: “Você Não Vale Nada”, “Furunfa”, “Baby doll”, “Louca por ti”, “Sonho Lindo”, “Armadilha”, “Paulinha” and “I still love you”.

Calcinha Preta recorded a 25-year-old DVD in February 2020 and returned to the concert routine after months without performances due to the pandemic.

Until Paulinha was hospitalized, the group’s last commitment was recording the podcast Podpah, in São Paulo, on February 8th.

See the hospitalization timeline:

• February 11 – Singer Paulinha Abelha was hospitalized in Aracaju after arriving from a tour with the band Calcinha Preta in São Paulo. The admission was to treat kidney problems, but the cause was not disclosed;
• February 14 – The singer’s condition worsened and she was transferred to the ICU. From then on, she went on dialysis;
• February 17 – The medical bulletin of that day reported that Paulinha was in a coma and, because of neurological instability, did not have sufficient clinical conditions for the transfer. At the end of the night, the situation changed and she was transferred to the Primavera Hospital, in the South Zone of Aracaju, to undergo further kidney tests;
• February 18 – The medical bulletin reported that the artist remained in a coma, clinically stable, with a controlled infection and breathing with the support of a device. The singer’s advice also said that the possibility of brain death was ruled out, and that that afternoon she would undergo another hemodialysis session. According to the press office, Paulinha was undergoing a new treatment, which should only respond within 72 hours. Regarding the transfer to a hospital in another state, the advisory informed that there was no forecast of when it could happen;
• February 19 – Late Saturday morning, a new bulletin reported that after the investigation with complementary exams, the possibility of cancer was ruled out to be with “infectious diseases of epidemiological interest for the community”. The document did not provide further details on which diseases these would be. At night, doctors reported that she was intubated and in a persistent coma;
• February 20 – According to Sunday’s medical bulletin, the singer had a serious neurological condition and remained hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). She was also still in a coma and intubated;
• February 21 – on Monday, the artist continued with a severe neurological condition, without signs of hemodynamic instability, breathing with the help of machines and requiring dialysis.
• February 22- On Tuesday, according to the bulletin, she remained with the severe neurological condition unchanged, without the need for medication to adjust the pressure, breathing with the help of devices and requiring hemodialysis to adjust her renal function. At the end of the afternoon, the doctors accompanying the singer gave a press conference and defined her coma as a level 3 on the Glasglow Scale, which is characterized as the deepest.
• February 23- The last bulletin released by the hospital, in the early afternoon of Wednesday, reported that the singer remained in a coma with a severe neurological condition unaltered, breathing with the help of equipment, undergoing hemodialysis and in continuous monitoring of neurological and renal dysfunctions. and liver. In the evening, the hospital issued the death note.