Taylor Swift dazzles on stage in Brazil a week after the tragic death of a fan

Taylor Swift offered an incredible show to spectators on Friday 24 November, at the start of its last weekend in Brazil. The “Cruel Summer” singer stunned on stage in Sao Paulo, despite still mourning her fan Ana Clara Benevides Machado, who died on November 17, before the Swfit show in Rio.

Swift, 33, premiered her song “Now That We Don’t Talk” during the impressive Centuries concert, from the videos in X (formerly Twitter), marking the first time the 1989 the bonus track was played live for the fans. Other fan clips circulating on social media showed the “Snow on the Beach” singer smiling and blowing kisses to fans as she wrapped up her show.

‘Enchanted’ singer was ‘completely beside herself’ after her 23-year-old fan’s death, source says us weekly on Nov. 21, adding that Swift “reached out” to Benevides Machado’s family.

On November 17, shortly before Swift took the stage to perform, Benevides Machado collapsed in the extreme heat of the stadium and went into cardiac arrest. Doctors attempted to resuscitate her, but she went into cardiac arrest a second time while she was en route to hospital and was pronounced dead before they could revive her. Swift released a heartfelt message shortly after about the tragic event.

“I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it is with a broken heart that I say that we lost a fan before my show tonight. “I can’t even express how devastated I am about this,” the “All Too Well” artist wrote via Instagram. “I have very little information other than the fact that she was incredibly beautiful and very young. I won’t be able to talk about it on stage because I feel overwhelmed by sadness when I try to talk about it. I want to say that I am now deeply sorry for this loss and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends. “This was the last thing I thought would happen when we decided to do this tour in Brazil.”

While he didn’t address the student’s death on stage, he gave a moving and emotional performance of his song “Bigger Than the Whole Sky,” which some fans theorized was a silent tribute to the late fan.

Benevides Machado’s father said his daughter was a “happy” and “intelligent” girl who studied psychology. He also highlighted spectators’ claims that they were not allowed to bring their own water bottles to the event.

“I want it to be established whether they were really forbidden to drink water, whether there was negligence in the service,” he told local newspaper Folha de S. Paulo in Portuguese, translated into English by AND! News. “I know the singer was handing out water to her fans and this is absurd for an event of this magnitude. Nothing will bring my daughter back to me, but I hope that if the negligence is confirmed, someone will be punished, so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”