After surviving a massive massive bacterial infection last year, Madonna began her celebration tours and has been seen in several locations performing her hit songs. Now the 65-year-old is ready for the finale of her tour.
On Monday, the Vogue singer announced that her ‘biggest show yet’ will be a free concert on May 4 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ‘The celebration spanning four decades of music will culminate with a free event on May 4th at Copacabana Beach as a thank you to her incredible fans from around the world,’ reads the announcement on her website.
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Madonna is slated to hold the event at Belmond Copacabana Palace Hotel and will be broadcast live on TV Globo. There will be no tickets, and admission will happen on a first-come, first-serve basis. This is her first show in Brazil since 2012.
Joining her onstage for the tour is Bob the Drag Queen, who has accompanied her throughout the Celebration Tour. The celebration tour started on October 14 in London after she had a well-adjusted rest after fighting a bacterial infection last year June. She shared that she was in an induced coma for 48 hours after suffering lung and kidney failure.Â
On her first Celebration Tour stop in London, Madonna admitted onstage that she ‘ didn’t think I’d make it’ during the stint, during which she ‘forgot five days’ of her life. ‘I didn’t think I would make it, and neither did my doctors,’ she said. ‘That’s why I woke up with all of my children sitting around me.’
‘I forgot five days of my life or my death, I don’t really know where I was. But the angels were protecting me,’ she continued. ‘And my children were there. And my children always save me, every time.’ The added, ‘If you want to know how I pulled through and how I survived, I thought, I have got to be there for my children. I have to survive for them.’
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Madonna has had a fair share of bad things happening to her. From the health scare to falling off on stage, the star has also met with lawsuits after her NYC shows started two hours late. Her legal team and Live Nation responded to the lawsuit in TMZ. ‘Madonna just completed and sold out her 2023 Celebration Tour in Europe – which received rave reviews,’ they said.
‘The shows opened in North America at Barclays in Brooklyn as planned, with the exception of a technical issue on December 13th during soundcheck.’ ‘This caused a delay that was well documented in press reports at the time. We intend to defend this case vigorously,’ they added.