An ample investigation is started after the death of Romanian singer

Newsroom 14/07/2010 | 14:40

Romanian singer Madalina Manole was found dead in her home in Otopeni on Wednesday, on the day in which she turned 43. According to the forensics report, Manole committed suicide, after leaving a good-bye message on her husband’s mobile telephone.

An ambulance was called to the singer’s residence early in the morning by Manole’s husband. The first speculations regarding the woman’s death were connected with suicide, as, according to sources, Manole had had a previous attempt to take her own life several days before. What’s more, it seems that the woman had health-related issues, as she had been hospitalized in May. The forensics report on Thursday confirmed the suicide suspicions and laid out an extremely toxic pesticide as the cause for the woman’s death.

The Romanian music community presented its condolences regarding the artist’s death, who had just released an album, “09 Madalina Manole”. Several versions regarding Manole’s death circulated in the media, most of them focusing on depression as the main reason to trigger the woman’s desperate gesture.

Madalina Manole was born on July 14^th 1967 and made her artistic debut at age 15. She had musical studies and a background in folk music, to later become one of the most prominent names of the Romanian pop scene in the 1990s. At the time of her death, Manole was on her second marriage and had recently become a mother.