Taylor Swift on Sunday met with the household of Ana Clara Benevides Machado, the 23-year-old fan who this month died whereas attending the star’s live performance in Brazil.
Ahead of her remaining Eras Tour present on the Allianz Parque stadium in São Paulo, Swift posed for a photograph with the Machado household, Entertainment Tonight reported.
In the picture, which has since been circulated on-line, the 33-year-old Anti-Hero singer stood beside Machado’s family members, together with her father, Weiny Machado. Swift wore a pink, glittering bodysuit used throughout her stage present, whereas the members of the family every wore a white T-shirt that includes a picture of Machado’s face.
It will not be clear if Machado’s family members had been invited by Swift straight, or by a member of her group.
On Nov. 17, Machado felt unwell after which collapsed contained in the Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro through the second music of Swift’s set. She later suffered cardiac arrest and died in hospital shortly after. The actual explanation for her demise has not been confirmed.
Daytime highs in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 17 reportedly reached simply over 39 levels Celsius. Despite the warmth wave, Swift’s followers have complained they weren’t allowed to take water into the venue.
Swift mentioned she was “devastated” to listen to a fan died throughout her live performance.
“I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it’s with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,” Swift wrote on her Instagram story on Nov. 18. “There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.”
Swift advised her followers she wouldn’t be talking about Machado whereas on stage as a result of she was “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,” Swift wrote.
Swift and her group then postponed her Nov. 18 present within the nation due to excessive temperatures.
When Swift stepped onto the Rio de Janeiro stage on Nov. 20, the pop star sang an emotional, rain-soaked rendition of her music Bigger Than the Whole Sky as certainly one of her shock songs. Though Swift by no means specified, a lot of her followers interpreted the choice — a ballad about loss, that includes the lyrics “You were bigger than the whole sky/You were more than just a short time” — as a delicate option to dedicate the efficiency to Machado.
Machado’s father Weiny advised the native information outlet Folha de S.Paulo that his daughter was a psychology scholar who “left home to fulfill a dream and came back dead.”
“I lost my only daughter, a happy and intelligent girl,” he mentioned in Portuguese. “I have no words to express my pain.”
Machado’s demise spurred outrage from Swifties and politicians in Brazil.
Quickly after information of her demise broke, followers of the singer launched a petition to make water freely accessible in live performance venues. In solely hours, the petition garnered over 150,000 signatures. Brazil’s federal authorities took be aware and introduced that free water can be out there in any respect future concert events.
The firm that organized Swift’s Brazilian concert events, Time for Fun, is at the moment beneath investigation for “the crime of endangering the life and health” of concertgoers, as reported by NBC News.
Swift’s run of concert events in Brazil was rocky, with two followers left useless, a number of reported muggings and a harmful heatwave, the Associated Press reported.
A second Swift fan, 25-year-old Gabriel Mongenot Santana Milhomem Santos from Cuba, was stabbed to demise on a Copacabana seashore on Nov. 20. Santos travelled to the nation to see Swift carry out.
Videos on social media confirmed teams of pickpockets robbing followers of their belongings in Rio, although this sort of theft will not be unusual within the area, in accordance with AP.
Sunday’s live performance in São Paulo was Swift’s remaining Eras Tour efficiency in 2023. The tour will resume in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 7.
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