RIO DE JANEIRO — A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died on the singer’s Eras Tour live performance in Rio de Janeiro Friday evening, in response to a press release from the present’s organizers in Brazil.
Whereas the reason for demise for Ana Clara Benevides Machado has not been introduced, media reported that followers weren’t allowed to take water into the stadium regardless of hovering temperatures, and town’s mayor has demanded adjustments earlier than Swift’s last two exhibits.
In a handwritten notice shared on her social media, Swift stated she had a “shattered coronary heart.”
“There’s little or no info I’ve aside from the truth that she was so extremely lovely and much too younger,” the singer wrote.
The present’s organizers, Time4Fun, stated on Instagram that Benevides was attended by paramedics after feeling unwell. She was taken to the stadium’s first assist middle, then to a hospital, the place she died an hour later, the assertion learn.
A number of native media reported that water bottles weren’t allowed contained in the Nilton Santos Olympic stadium, though Rio and most of Brazil have had record-breaking temperatures this week, amid a harmful and lasting warmth wave, and followers have been queuing for a number of hours within the solar.
Justice Minister Flávio Dino stated on X that the ministry will implement “emergency guidelines” concerning entry to water at exhibits and different public occasions.”
On-line information website G1 reported that considered one of Benevides’ pals, who attended the live performance together with her, stated her pal handed out in the beginning of the live performance, as Swift carried out her second music, “Merciless Summer season.”
A photograph of the 2 pals present them sporting Taylor Swift T-shirts contained in the stadium.
“We at all times stated that when (Taylor Swift) got here to Brazil we might discover a option to go. The ticket was very costly, however we nonetheless discovered a approach”, she informed G1 shortly after her pal’s demise.
Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes stated on X the “lack of a younger lady’s life … is unacceptable.”
Whereas authorities are investigating the circumstances of the demise, Paes wrote, the municipality will demand Saturday that the present’s manufacturing firm present new water distribution factors, extra brigades and ambulances and advance entrance to the present by one hour.
Swift has two extra exhibits in Rio on Saturday and Sunday.
“I am not going to have the ability to discuss this from stage as a result of I really feel overwhelmed by grief once I even attempt to discuss it,” she wrote. “I need to say now I really feel this loss deeply and my damaged coronary heart goes out to her household and pals.”