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She was a Portuguese Lusophone and Francophone singer, actress and best-selling author.

Linda de Suza sang fado, folk, ballads and popular songs in both French and Portuguese and was nicknamed "Amália of France" after Amália Rodrigues, to whom she paid tribute in her song "Amália".

Amália Rodrigues, known as "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado") paved the way for Linda de Suza and other well known Portuguese and Portuguese-descended singers.

In France she started to work in menial jobs.

Her novel La Valise en carton -which sold two million copies- was adapted into a cinema-film miniseries in 1988. All were successful.

In 1984, Linda de Suza published her autobiography La Valise en Carton (The Cardboard Suitcase). The book was also published the same year in Portugal, as A Mala de Cartão. She recounts her difficult and painful past, how she became the singer that the public knew in 1978.

In the late 1970s, she managed to record music albums.

Her works such as Tiroli-Torola, La fille qui pleurait, Un Enfant peut faire le monde, and L'Étrangère drew a large audience in France. She topped her success with her performance at Paris Olympia.

According to the Portuguese magazine Flash! she had been hospitalized in September 2022 in critical condition, having already contracted Covid-19 in 2020. She suffered from very serious psychological problems and refused to eat.

Suza left her homeland, Portugal for France in the 1970s and lived in France since 1973.