Reginaldo Rossi

Reginaldo Rodrigues dos Santos (14 February 1944 – 20 December 2013), better known by his stage name Reginaldo Rossi, was a Brazilian musician and singer-songwriter. He was known as the "King of Brega" ().
Cancer and death.
On 9 November 2013, Rossi a very heavy smoker went through a surgical procedure called thoracentesis removing 2 liters of accumulated fluids between the pleura and the lung. The biopsy revealed on the 11th of the same month the confirmation of lung cancer. 
Reginaldo Rossi died on 20 December 2013, aged 69, in his hometown of Recife, Pernambuco.