Marinella: "She was my mother," writes Theofanous

Composer Giorgos Theofanous bid farewell to Marinella with a moving post on social media. He referred to her as "mother" and expressed his difficulty in comprehending her loss. He described Marinella as a personality with a huge smile and a big heart. The post was made shortly before a concert of his in Constantinople, where he was for the celebrations of the Virgin of Vlachernae. Theofanous expressed a feeling of losing a second mother, after the Virgin Mary.