Singer Lisa Marie Presley now rests close to her father Elvis, the “King” of rock ‘n’ roll, at his iconic home in Graceland, Tennessee, where hundreds of admirers and loved ones gathered for a tribute ceremony on Sunday.
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From dawn, a long crowd lined up to attend this funeral service in Memphis, flowers or photos in hand for the singer and author who died on January 12 at the age of 54.
The ceremony was to end with a procession to the “Meditation Garden,” Graceland’s garden where are the graves of Elvis Presley, several members of his family, and now his only daughter, Lisa Marie, who he had with actress Priscilla Presley.
On a stage that featured a large photograph of Lisa Marie Presley, Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan paid tribute to her, then Alanis Morissette and Guns N’ Roses leader Axl Rose. A choir also sang gospel.
“Grief is the price paid for love,” said the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, a friend of Lisa Marie Presley, attributing her words to the late Queen of England Elizabeth II, who died on April 8. died September 2022.
The singer died of cardiac arrest shortly after her emergency hospital stay in California.
The grand residence of Graceland, where Elvis Presley was found unconscious on August 16, 1977 before being transported to the hospital and dying at the age of 42, has become a mythical place converted into a museum and visited daily by tourists and tourists becomes admirer. She was controlled by Lisa Marie Presley until her death.
Lisa Maria Presley had four husbands during her lifetime, including Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson, and four children. She had released three albums in her career without building on the success of Elvis, one of the most famous artists of all time.
She was very close to her father, who named his private jet “Lisa Marie” in her honor, and was 9 years old when he died.
She will also rest close to her son, Benjamin Keough, who committed suicide in 2020.