Pop star Madonna, performing Saturday night time at a large free live performance at Copacabana Seashore in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Pop star Madonna, performing Saturday night time at a large free live performance at Copacabana Seashore in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Madonna capped off her “Celebration” tour with a visit to the seaside: Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana Seashore, to be actual, the place on Saturday night time she placed on a large free present for some 1.6 million followers. It was the final efficiency throughout her globe-trotting retrospective tour in addition to her solely “Celebration” date in South America — and it garnered the most important stay crowd of her profession.
The 1.6 million estimate got here from Riotur, the town’s official tourism company. Madonna, who had not carried out in Brazil since 2012, enthused concerning the night on Instagram: “Phrases can’t categorical my gratitude!” she wrote in a caption to a drone video displaying the beachfront full of followers. As with different “Celebration” reveals, she invited native stars onstage together with her: in Rio, her company had been Brazilian performers Anitta and Pabllo Vittar, the latter serving to Madonna shift her monitor “Music” right into a samba.
Copacabana Seashore has one thing of a historical past with regards to enormous pop spectacles: in 2006, The Rolling Stones performed for an estimated 1.5 million followers there, whereas a 1994 New 12 months’s Eve present with Rod Stewart reportedly drew some 4.2 million attendees.
