Taylor Swift canceled her second present in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday attributable to extreme warmth and following the loss of life of a 23-year-old fan throughout her Eras Tour live performance on Friday night.
“I’m penning this from my dressing room within the stadium. The choice has been made to postpone tonight’s present because of the excessive temperatures in Rio,” the singer stated in a handwritten observe posted on her Instagram account. “The security and effectively being of my followers, fellow performers, and crew has to and all the time will come first.”
The circumstances as to how and why Ana Clara Benevides Machado died after looking for medical consideration at Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium throughout Friday’s present, have but to be revealed, in keeping with The Related Press. Rio’s public prosecutor has opened a prison investigation and confirmed that Benevides’s physique was being examined.
Following her loss of life, hundreds 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.four levels Fahrenheit. Federal authorities introduced on Saturday that free water would now be accessible at live shows, nevertheless it was too little, too late.
In a handwritten observe shared on social media, Swift stated she had a “shattered coronary heart.”
“There’s little or no info I’ve apart from the truth that she was so extremely stunning and much too younger,” Taylor posted on IG.
The present’s organizer, Time4Fun, stated that paramedics took Benevides to a first-aid middle after which to a hospital, the place she died an hour later, in a press release from the Brazilian dwell leisure firm.
Obvious temperature — a mix 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 often known as Twitter, that the “lack of a younger girl’s life … is unacceptable.”
For now, Swift is ready 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 are going to “monitor measures that search to keep away from new issues and assure the safety of the well being of the general public.”
“I’m not going to have the ability to talk about this from [the] stage as a result of I really feel overwhelmed by grief once I even attempt to discuss it,” the singer wrote. “I need to say now I really feel this loss deeply, and my damaged coronary heart goes out to her household and buddies.”
With wire companies