Heartbreaking footage captured the moment a famous Fleetwood Mac covers singer sang her favourite song for the last time in her hospital bed before dying from breast cancer.
Marirose Powell, 62, died in April after a brave battle with the disease. She was the lead singer of a famous Fleetwood Mac cover band, Marirose & The Gypsies, for decades.
Her daughter-in-law shared the emotional video on TikTok after her death.
The video, filmed shortly before Powell’s death, shows Powell in her hospice bed. Her friends had gathered with a guitar and asked, “What do you want to play?”
“And she said, ‘I want to sing ‘Landslide.’ And so she sang ‘Landslide’ one last time,” Xenos said People.
Heartbreaking footage captured the moment Fleetwood Mac cover singer Marirose Powell, 62, sang 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 world” and said she was the frontwoman of a Fleetwood Mac cover band for more than 20 years.
In the video, Powell is seen holding onto the edge of her hospital bed as she softly sings the 1975 song.
Xenos captioned her 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.’
“There’s not a day that goes by that I wish we had had more time with her. She was truly the only person I’ve ever known who left people better 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 and generous person in the world”
As she struggled in her final moments, Xenos said the video was “the last time she could really sing with her voice.”
“And we sang to her from the window and she knew this was going to happen.”
Xenos added that she believes Powell “held on through that moment,” and “even when she couldn’t talk, her friends gathered around her and sang to her.”
Powell, a singer-songwriter who has released three albums, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021, People reported.
She had previously beaten the disease and gone into remission, but her daughter-in-law said a scan last year showed the cancer had returned.
After Powell’s death, Xenos said she would have liked to experience how her singing went viral and how she was praised on social media.
Powell played in a Fleetwood Mac cover band for over 20 years
“I always told her: ‘Put your music on TikTok,’” said Xenos.
“And once 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 love you.’”
Xenos concluded that Powell was ‘really the only person I’ve ever met who found you when she met you… Just knowing her made you a better person.
‘Everyone can now see that through a 30-second video.’
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