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Who is Rita Lee married to? All about her husbands and kids as Brazilian rock icon dies aged 75

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Lily Fisher

Published Jan 01, 2026

Brazilian Sovereign of Rock, Rita Lee Jones, who died at 75 on Monday, May 8, was hitched to guitarist Roberto de Carvalho at the hour of her passing. Rita acquired worldwide popularity and completely finishing her striking and open way of singing. She has gifted music fans with hits like Currently Just Missing You, Craziness de Você, and Ovelha Negra.

The amazing artist brought her final gasp at her back home in São Paulo on Monday night. The news was partaken in a proclamation that was posted on Rita’s true Instagram account on Tuesday, May 9.

Her profession crossed north of sixty years and she figured out how to leave an enduring contact with her inventiveness and pieces with significant messages that acquainted individuals of Brazil with women’s liberation. She additionally openly tended to her own battles with chronic drug use through her music.

Rita previously wedded Mutante Arnaldo Baptista in 1968 and separated in 1972. In 1976, she was acquainted with her current spouse Roberto through MPB artist Ney Matogrosso. With Roberto, Ritaa had three youngsters, Antônio Lee, João Lee, and Beto Lee.

The Brazilian Sovereign of Rock was purportedly battling a lung cancer beginning around 2021. She was hospitalized toward the start of 2023 because of certain confusions in her treatment. Her better half, Roberto, refreshed her fans on Rita’s wellbeing status.

Rita Lee and Roberto appeared to share an exceptionally close, cherishing, and loving bond. The guitarist every now and again posted photos of his significant other on his Instagram profile thus did Rita.

The couple’s oldest child, Beto Lee, 46, is likewise a vocalist, lyricist, and guitarist. He is right now an individual from the band Titãs. Beto is the prime supporter of Universe and he has delivered two independent collections, one of which, procured him a Latin Grammy Grant.

Rita and Roberto’s center child, João Lee, 44 is likewise in the music business and fills in as a DJ and a maker. Antônio Lee, 42, their most youthful child is a visual craftsman.

Despite the fact that Rita Lee viewed her own voice as somewhat unnatural and frail, she favored her fans with a long run of top-selling collections. Many Rita’s melodies were highlighted in well known telenovelas in Latin America. Her version of the melody Toxin Weed was utilized by the Behemoth TV station Globo in three of its projects.

“I was not born to get hitched and wash clothing. I needed a similar opportunity as the young men who used to play in the road with their toy vehicles. At the point when I got into music, I understood that the “machos” ruled outright, much more in exciting music. ‘Goodness’, I said, ‘this is where I will let my teeth out and, in a real sense, give them trouble.'”


Rita Lee was lauded for her adaptability. She played something like five instruments including the piano, drums, guitar, autoharp, and harmonica. She was additionally one of Brazil’s most memorable artists to play electric guitar.

Ultimately, her ubiquity as a vocalist and lyricist reached out past Brazil. Rita Lee acted in Europe too, including Britain, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and France. In 1988, Day to day Mirror, the English paper uncovered that Ruler Charles communicated his esteem for Rita’s tune Lança Aroma, and, surprisingly, thought of her as one of his #1 vocalists.

Rita Lee likewise won a Latin Grammy in 2001 for the Best Portuguese Language Collection classification, for her collection 3001. She imparted a 44-year melodic organization to her significant other Roberto de Carvalho. They likewise delivered another melody, Change, in 2021, and a remix of a portion of Rita’s biggest hits.