Taylor Swift canceled her second present in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday as a consequence of extreme warmth and following the dying of a 23-year-old fan throughout her Eras Tour live performance on Friday night.
“I’m writing this from my dressing room in the stadium. The decision has been made to postpone tonight’s show due to the extreme temperatures in Rio,” the singer stated in a handwritten notice posted on her Instagram account. “The safety and well being of my fans, fellow performers, and crew has to and always will come first.”
The circumstances as to how and why Ana Clara Benevides Machado died after in search of medical consideration at Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium throughout Friday’s present, have but to be revealed, in line with The Associated Press. Rio’s public prosecutor has opened a prison investigation and confirmed that Benevides’s physique was being examined.
Following her dying, 1000’s of concertgoers complained they weren’t allowed to take water into the 44,000-seat stadium regardless of searing temperatures that reached greater than 102.4 levels Fahrenheit. Federal authorities introduced on Saturday that free water would now be obtainable at live shows, but it surely was too little, too late.
In a handwritten notice shared on social media, Swift stated she had a “shattered heart.”
“There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young,” Taylor posted on IG.
The present’s organizer, Time4Fun, stated that paramedics took Benevides to a first-aid heart after which to a hospital, the place she died an hour later, in a press release from the Brazilian stay leisure firm.
Apparent temperature — a mixture of temperature and humidity — hit 138 F Friday morning in Rio, the very best index ever recorded there.
Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes stated on X, previously referred to as Twitter, that the “loss of a young woman’s life … is unacceptable.”
For now, Swift is about to carry out in Rio on Sunday, with three extra live shows scheduled for the next weekend in Sao Paulo that start November 24. State prosecutors stated in a press release that they’ll “monitor measures that seek to avoid new problems and guarantee the protection of the health of the public.”
“I’m not going to be able to speak about this from [the] stage because I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it,” the singer wrote. “I want to say now I feel this loss deeply, and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends.”
With wire companies