Heartbreaking footage has captured the moment a famed Fleetwood Mac cover singer performed her favourite song for the last time in her hospital bed before dying from breast cancer.
Marirose Powell, 62, died in April after a courageous battle with the disease. For decades she was the frontwoman of a well-known Fleetwood Mac cover band, Marirose & The Gypsies.
Her daughter-in-law shared the emotional video on TikTok after her death.
Filmed shortly before Powell passed away, the video shows Powell in his hospice bed. His friends had gathered around a guitar and asked him, “What do you want to play?”
“And she said, ‘I want to sing ‘Landslide.’ And then she sang ‘Landslide’ one last time,” Xenos said. People.
Heartbreaking footage captured the moment Fleetwood Mac cover singer Marirose Powell, 62, performed her favourite song for the last time in her hospital bed.
Powell, a singer-songwriter who released three albums, died of breast cancer a week after the video was filmed on April 10.
Xenos described her husband’s mother as “the most loving and generous person in the entire world” and said she fronted a Fleetwood Mac cover band for more than 20 years.
In the video, Powell is seen tightly gripping the side of her hospital bed as she sweetly sings the 1975 hit.
Xenos captioned his video of the moment: ‘My mother-in-law performed as Stevie Nicks for decades – this was her last performance before she passed away the following week.’
“Not a day goes by that I don’t wish I had spent more time with her. She was truly the only person I’ve ever met who left people in better shape than she found them.
‘Until we can be together again, Mom.’
Powell’s daughter-in-law Sam Xenos (pictured together) described her as “the most loving, generous person in the entire world.”
As he struggled through his final moments, Xenos said the video showed “the last time he could really sing with his voice.”
“And we sang to her from outside her window and she knew that was going to happen.”
Xenos added that he believes Powell “held on through that moment” and “even when she couldn’t speak, her friends would join her and just sing to her.”
Powell, a singer-songwriter who has released three albums, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021, People reported.
She had already beaten the disease and gone into remission, but her daughter-in-law said a scan last year found the cancer had returned.
Following Powell’s passing, Xenos said he wished he could have been there to witness his song go viral and receive praise on social media.
Powell had performed in a Fleetwood Mac cover band for more than 20 years.
“I used to tell him, ‘Post your music on TikTok,'” Xenos said.
“And when that took off, everyone kept asking for more of her performances. So I started posting more of her stuff. And I remember sitting there and thinking, ‘Oh my God… they adore you.'”
Xenos concluded that Powell “was really the only person I’ve ever met who when she met you, she found you… Just knowing her made you a better person.”
“Everyone can now see it through a 30-second video.”
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