Taylor Swift delivered an unimaginable present to concertgoers on Friday, November 24, as she kicked off her final weekend in Brazil. The “Merciless Summer time” 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 music “Now That We Don’t Speak” through the dazzling Eras live performance, per movies on X (previously Twitter), marking the primary time the 1989 bonus monitor was carried out stay for followers. Extra fan clips circulating on social media confirmed the “Snow on the Seashore” songstress smiling and blowing kisses to followers whereas closing out her present.
The “Enchanted” singer has been “fully beside herself” after the 23-year-old fan’s dying, a supply advised 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 may very well be revived. Swift launched a heartfelt message shortly after concerning the tragic occasion.
“I can’t imagine I’m writing these phrases, however it’s along with her shattered coronary heart that I say we misplaced a fan earlier tonight earlier than my present. I can’t even inform you how devastated I’m by this,” the “All Too Nicely” artist wrote by way of Instagram. “There’s little or no info I’ve aside from the truth that she was so extremely lovely and much too younger. I’m not going to have the ability to talk about this from stage as a result of I really feel overwhelmed by grief once I even attempt to speak about it. I need to say now I really feel this loss deeply and my damaged coronary heart goes out to her household and associates. That is the very last thing I ever thought would occur once we determined to convey this tour to Brazil.”
Though she didn’t deal with the scholar’s dying on stage, she gave a transferring and emotional efficiency of her music “Greater Than the Entire Sky,” which some followers theorized was a quiet tribute to the late fan.
Benevides Machado’s father stated his daughter was a “glad” and “clever” lady who was pursuing her psychology diploma. He additionally emphasised concertgoer’s claims that they weren’t allowed to convey their very own water bottles into the occasion.
“I need it to be decided whether or not they had been in actual fact prohibited from bringing water, whether or not there was negligence in offering help,” he stated to native newspaper Folha de S. Paulo in Portuguese, which was translated to English, per E! Information. “I do know that the singer was handing out water to her followers, and that’s absurd for an occasion of this measurement. Nothing will convey my daughter again, however I hope that, if negligence is confirmed, somebody shall be punished, in order that this doesn’t occur to anybody else.”
