Dying singer’s final performance of “Landslide” goes viral as she sings in hospice bed

This may be the saddest yet most inspiring video you’ll see today. A dying singer performed a moving rendition of the Fleetwood Mac classic “Landslide” from her hospice bed.

They say music has power, and I think cases like this show that’s true. For singer Marirose Powell, the tune had a lot of meaning for her and her life. She wanted one last chance to sing and share her voice with others before she died. Her daughter-in-law eventually shared the video on TikTok, where it went viral.

Unfortunately, Powell died of breast cancer in April.

“She was the most loving and generous person in the whole world,” Sam Xenos told People. On the day of the video, a few of the singer’s friends came by with guitars. They played for her and asked her if she wanted to play. “‘What would you like to play?'”

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not a day goes by that I don’t wish we had more time with her. She was truly the only person I knew who left people better than she found them. Until we can be together again, Mom…

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“And she said, ‘I want to sing ‘Landslide’.’ And so she sang ‘Landslide’ one last time,” said Xenos. The video shows the 62-year-old in her hospice bed at home. The song had a special meaning. For more than two decades, the singer was part of a Fleetwood Mac cover band.

Although Powell had cancer, her voice remained as strong as ever. “My mother-in-law performed as Stevie Nicks for decades,” Xenos wrote of the video. “This was her last performance before she passed away the following week.”

Singer dies after performance

It turned out that this was the last time the singer sang a song.

“That was the last time she was actually able to sing with her voice,” Xenos told the outlet. “And we sang to her from outside her window and she knew that was going to happen.”

“I felt like she held on to that moment,” added Xenos. “And even when she couldn’t speak, her friends gathered around her and just sang to her.”

Powell battled breast cancer for three years. Doctors first diagnosed her in 2021. She went into remission, but the cancer returned two years later. Doctors gave her six months to live. In the caption of her TikTok post, Xenos wrote that “not a day goes by that I wish we had had more time with her.”

“She was really the only person I knew who left people in a better state than she found them,” she added. “Until we can be together again, Mom.”

She said the singer was very happy with the response she received.

“I always told her, ‘Post your music on TikTok,'” Xenos recalls. “And when that took off, everyone kept asking for more performances from her. So I started posting more of her stuff. And I just remember sitting there thinking, ‘Oh my god… they love you.'”