Taylor Swift returned to the stage in Brazil a day after rescheduling her Saturday performance.
The “Lover” singer, 33, continued the South American leg of her Eras Tour Sunday night at Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
On Saturday, Swift canceled her evening performance hours before she was due to take the stage due to the city’s unusually “extreme heat”. Friday’s temperature topped 102 F, with humidity over 70%, a combination that made it feel like it was actually 138 F, according to PBS.org.
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In an Instagram post, she wrote a handwritten message that read, “I’m writing this from my locker room at the stadium,” Swift shared to her Instagram Story in a handwritten message on Saturday. “The decision has been made to postpone tonight’s show due to the extreme temperatures in Rio.”
She added, “The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers and crew must and will always come first.”
Taylor Swift postpones Saturday’s ‘Eras Tour’ performance in Brazil due to ‘extreme temperatures’
Event organizer Time for Fun later revealed in a statement that the show had been moved to Monday, with all tickets for Saturday’s performance remaining valid for the new date.
The postponement came after the Grammy winner confirmed that a fan had died ahead of Friday’s concert. Party time divided into ua publish on X, formerly Twitter, that 23-year-old Ana Clara Benevides Machado died after being taken ill at the scene.
According to the post, which was shared in Portuguese, Benevides Machado was treated by first responders and she died after being taken to the local Salgado Filho hospital.
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“I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but I’m heartbroken to say we lost a fan tonight before my show,” Swift wrote on Friday.
“I can’t even tell you how devastated I was,” she added. “I have very little information other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and too young.”
Taylor Swift says she is ‘broken’ after a fan died just before her Brazil Eras tour
Swift, who wrote that she felt the loss “deeply”, revealed that she is “overwhelmed with grief when I even try to talk about it”.
“Now I want to say that I feel this loss deeply and my heart goes out to her family and friends,” she wrote. “This is the last thing I thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.”
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During that night, Swift was caught on camera multiple times asking stadium staff to get fans water. At one point, she stopped in the middle of her song “All Too Well” when she saw that people in the audience were affected by the heat, and she would throw bottles of water at them.
Temperatures finally cooled on Sunday after days of heat exceeding 100 degrees combined with dangerously high humidity levels — a record for mid-November in Rio.
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