Taylor Swift returned to the stage in Brazil just one day after delaying her Saturday performance.
The “Lover” singer, 33, began the South American leg of her Eras Tour on Sunday night at Rio de Janeiro’s Estadio Nilton Santos.
Swift cancelled Saturday’s event hours before it was scheduled to begin due to abnormally “extreme heat” in the city. According to PBS.org, the temperature exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday, with humidity above 70%, giving the impression that it was actually 138 degrees Fahrenheit.
Swift wrote a hand-written note in an Instagram picture that said, “I’m writing this from my dressing room in the stadium,” Swift said in a hand-written note Saturday. “The decision has been made to postpone tonight’s show due to the extreme temperatures in Rio.”
She went on to say, “The safety and well being of my fans, fellow performers and crew has to and will always come first.”
Later, event organiser Time for Fun said in a statement that the show has been rescheduled for Monday, with all tickets from Saturday’s performance valid for the new date.
The concert was rescheduled after the Grammy winner disclosed that a fan died before the show on Friday. Time for Fun revealed in a tweet on X, formerly Twitter, that Ana Clara Benevides Machado, 23, died after becoming ill at the venue.
According to the post, Benevides Machado was responded to by first responders and died after being brought to the nearby Salgado Filho Hospital.
“I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it’s with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,” Swift said in a statement on Friday.
“I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this,” she said. “There’s very little information I have other than the fact she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.”
Swift, who said she felt the loss “deeply,” confessed that she was “overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it.”
“I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my heart goes out to her family and friends,” she said in a statement. “This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.”
Swift was captured on tape many times that night begging stadium officials to provide fans with water. When she spotted people in the audience suffering from heat exhaustion, she would stop in the middle of her song “All Too Well” and toss them bottles of water.
After days of temperatures reaching 100 degrees and dangerously high humidity – a record for mid-November in Rio — temperatures suddenly dropped on Sunday.
