The official Cavalera conspiracy page on Instagram confirmed Vania Cavalera’s death. The mother of Max (vocals and guitar) and Iggor Cavalera (drums) was 80 years old. The cause was not disclosed.
The statement posted online reads:
“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our matriarch, Vania Cavalera. The greatest joy in Vania’s life was raising and loving her three children, Max, Iggor, and Kira, and being a grandmother to her fourteen grandchildren.
Our family asks for privacy at this difficult time of grief and we honor our mother’s wishes and legacy as we continue to celebrate her 80 year journey of love, strength, spirituality and metal.”
Vania is considered the biggest supporter of the musical careers of Max and Iggor, who formed Sepultura in Belo Horizonte in 1984. In just over a decade, the band became the greatest exponent of Brazilian heavy metal abroad, amassing gold records and outstanding chart positions in several countries, as well as a legacy that went so far as artists from around the world were mentioned as the group Influence.
Even before Sepultura was founded in 1979, Vania had to cope with the death of Graziano, her husband and father of their three children. At the age of 40, he suffered a heart attack in a car in which Max and Igor and a nephew were. In a 2010 interview with Trip, she said, who was a model in her youth:
“I looked at the little kids and became a robot, I froze my brain. There was no time to suffer. I worked as a telephone operator at the consulate, but in 1981 I decided to return to Minas, first to my parents’ house, from where I had fled to work as a model in Rio and São Paulo. And then in a rented house that would later become Sepultura’s headquarters.
After my husband died, life revolved around the boys and their friends. It wasn’t just a mother and kids relationship, we were protective of each other, we were always very supportive of each other. It was even difficult to find a job, women turned their faces to me, they were afraid of a widowed exmodel in the city. He lived on pension money because he had no reserves. I sold jewelry, perfumes, cutlery; My husband didn’t think about the future. He said he just had to leave the culture and love for the boys behind. At 12 they walked to school to save on transportation and they never asked me for anything.”
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