Lobão Reveals Family Deaths by Suicide, Including Sister’s 2023 Assisted Suicide in Amsterdam

Overview

• In an interview on Raul Ferreira Netto’s Sem Limites channel, Lobão said his father, mother, and sister each died by suicide, describing his sister’s 2023 death in Amsterdam as an assisted suicide.
• He dated his parents’ deaths to May 1984 and April 2004 and said he felt he concluded his grieving for his father in 2013 and moved past his mother’s loss around 1995–96 after he says he stopped experiencing epilepsy.
• The singer said he and his sister were once very close but “fought fiercely” and that she had severe mental-health problems.
• He said he plans to meet his sister’s son and to visit his daughter, Julia Peres, and grandson, Pedro, who are living in England.
• Coverage notes that Julia, 37, is the daughter of Daniele Daumerie, who died in 2014 after a stroke, and outlets included suicide-prevention resources such as Brazil’s 188 hotline.