Plaques with Preta Gil's name are installed on the Carnival circuit that celebrates the singer

Rio de Janeiro City Hall installed plaques with Preta Gil 's name this Thursday (24) in the newly created Carnival block circuit that bears the singer's name , in the city center.

With an image of the artist, the plaques were installed on the eve of Preta's wake , which will be held this Friday (25), at the Municipal Theater, from 9 am to 1 pm, with open visits to the public. After the wake , the artist's body will be taken in a Fire Department car along the route that bears her name.

"She enchanted Brazil with her joy and charisma. She showed everyone that we have to be proud of who we are. She marked a generation with her strength to live," wrote Mayor Eduardo Paes (PSD) on social media.

He also said that the singer will remain in everyone's memory with the Preta Gil Block Circuit.

"Thank you on behalf of all the people of Rio," Paes added.

The circuit is part of the official Rio Carnival program. In the decree honoring the singer, published a day after her death in New York, where she was undergoing treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer, the city government stated that Preta Gil was instrumental in the resumption of street Carnival in downtown Rio, "contributing to its affirmation as an urban space of cultural citizenship."

The singer created Bloco da Preta in 2009 and brought millions of revelers to the city center.

The Preta Gil circuit foresees the concentration of blocks on Primeiro de Março Street, in the section between Rosário and Ouvidor Streets; route along Primeiro de Março Street and Presidente Antônio Carlos Avenue and ending on Presidente Antônio Carlos Avenue, at the height of Araújo Porto Alegre Street.

This Thursday, singer Gilberto Gil spoke out for the first time since his daughter's death. "I've always been proud of you, daughter, and I always will be," he wrote on social media.