Taylor Swift delivered an unimaginable present to concertgoers on Friday, November 24, as she kicked off her final weekend in Brazil. The “Cruel Summer” singer dazzled on stage in São Paulo, regardless of nonetheless mourning her fan Ana Clara Benevides Machado, who died on November 17 earlier than Swfit’s live performance in Rio.
Swift, 33, debuted her tune “Now That We Don’t Talk” in the course of the dazzling Eras live performance, per movies on X (previously Twitter), marking the primary time the 1989 bonus observe was carried out stay for followers. More fan clips circulating on social media confirmed the “Snow on the Beach” songstress smiling and blowing kisses to followers whereas closing out her present.
The “Enchanted” singer has been “completely beside herself” after the 23-year-old fan’s demise, a supply informed Us Weekly on November 21, including that Swift “reached out” to Benevides Machado’s household.
On November 17, proper earlier than Swift took the stage to carry out, Benevides Machado collapsed amid the intense warmth within the stadium and suffered from cardiac arrest. Medics tried to resuscitate her, however she went into cardiac arrest a second time whereas on the best way to the hospital and was pronounced useless earlier than she might be revived. Swift launched a heartfelt message shortly after concerning the tragic occasion.
“I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it is with her shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show. I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this,” the “All Too Well” artist wrote through Instagram. “There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young. I’m not going to be able to speak about this from stage because I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it. I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends. This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.”
Although she didn’t deal with the scholar’s demise on stage, she gave a shifting and emotional efficiency of her tune “Bigger Than the Whole Sky,” which some followers theorized was a quiet tribute to the late fan.
Benevides Machado’s father mentioned his daughter was a “happy” and “intelligent” woman who was pursuing her psychology diploma. He additionally emphasised concertgoer’s claims that they weren’t allowed to deliver their very own water bottles into the occasion.
“I want it to be determined whether they were in fact prohibited from bringing water, whether there was negligence in providing assistance,” he mentioned to native newspaper Folha de S. Paulo in Portuguese, which was translated to English, per E! News. “I know that the singer was handing out water to her fans, and that is absurd for an event of this size. Nothing will bring my daughter back, but I hope that, if negligence is confirmed, someone will be punished, so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”