Singer’s Emotional Hospice Performance Goes Viral as She Sings ‘Landslide’ for ‘One Last Time’ (Exclusive)
“She was the most loving and generous person in the world,” Marirose Powell’s daughter-in-law tells PEOPLE
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Marirose Powell
Shortly before her death, Marirose Powell sang a song that meant a lot to her for the last time – and a video of the emotional performance, posted by her daughter-in-law on TikTok, has now touched millions.
“She was the most loving, generous person in the whole world,” Sam Xenos tells PEOPLE about Powell, her husband’s mother, who died of breast cancer on April 10.
On the day the video was shot, Xenos tells PEOPLE, two of her mother-in-law’s friends came by with their guitars and asked, “What do you want to play?”
“And she said, ‘I want to sing ‘Landslide.'” And so she sang ‘Landslide’ one last time,” adds Xenos.
In the clip, Powell, 62, sings as she rests in her bed while receiving hospice care at her home in Stockton, California.
Powell is a singer-songwriter who fronted a Fleetwood Mac cover band for over 20 years. She gripped the bed rails and had a strong voice as she sang, “I’m getting older, too.”
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Marirose Powell
“My mother-in-law performed as Stevie Nicks for decades,” Xenos wrote about the video. “This was her last performance before she passed away the following week.”
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“That was the last time she was actually able to sing with her voice,” Xenos tells PEOPLE. “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,” adds Xenos. “And even when she couldn’t speak, her friends gathered around her and just sang to her.”
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(LR) Sam Xenos and Marirose Powell
Powell, who also worked as an emergency room nurse and released three albums of her own, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021. Although the disease went into remission, a scan two years later showed that the cancer had returned, her daughter-in-law says.
From then on, she says, the family “only had six months with her.”
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In the caption of her TikTok post, Xenos wrote that “not a day goes by that I wish we 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.”
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Marirose Powell performs in a Fleetwood Mac cover band
In real life, Powell would have been thrilled by the response to her performance, which was viewed over 3.7 million times.
“I always told her, ‘Post your music on TikTok,'” Xenos recalls. “And when that took off, everyone was constantly asking for more of her performances. So I started posting more of her stuff. And I just remember sitting there thinking, ‘Oh my god… they love you.'”
Xenos says Powell, the matriarch who “couldn’t say no” to her family, “deserves” all the love the clip has generated.
“She was really the only person I’ve ever met who found you when she met you,” says Xenos. “Just knowing her made you a better person. Now everyone can see that in a 30-second video.”
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