Rio de Janeiro (AP) – Lady Gaga will give a free concert on Copacabana Beach on Saturday night, the second show of this type in organized by the City Council of Rio de Janeiro in two years.
The show will be the greatest of the pop star race, as was for Madonna, who also turned the extensive sand strip into a huge dance floor last year.
Large -scale performances are part of an effort led by the City Council to boost economic activity after the Carnival and New Year’s festivities and the next San Juan Day celebrations in June.
“It brings activity to the city during what was previously considered the low season, filling hotels and increasing spending on bars, restaurants and shops, generating jobs and income for the population,” said Osmar Lima, secretary of economic development of the city, in a statement issued last month by the Tourism Department of the City of Rio.
And similar concerts are scheduled to be carried out every year in May at least until 2028.
Lady Gaga arrived in Rio in the early hours of Tuesday. The city has been alive with the Gaga-Manía since then, while preparing to receive the Mother Monster for its first show in the country since 2012. River subway employees danced to the rhythm of Lady Gaga’s song of 2008 “Lovegame” and gave instructions for Saturday in a video. A free exhibition that celebrates his career had exhausted tickets. And the “Little Monsters”, as their fans are known, sang and danced in front of Copacabana Palace where the pop star stays, hoping to see her.
The City Council said in a recent report that around 1.6 million people are expected to attend and that the show should inject at least 600 million reais (about 106 million dollars) to the river economy, almost 30% more than Madonna’s show.
Although the vast majority of attendees will come from the same city, the event is also expected to attract Brazilians from all over the country and international visitors.
Ingrid Serrano, a 30 -year -old engineer, traveled from Colombia to Brazil to attend the show.
“I have been a 100% fan of Lady Gaga all my life,” said Serrano, who wore a shirt with the extravagant Lady Gaga costumes over the years.
For her, the megaestrella represents “total freedom of expression: being who one wants without shame.”
The performance of more than two hours of Lady Gaga is scheduled to start at 9:45 pm local time (0045 GMT). Sixteen sound towers have been distributed along the beach to ensure that successes resonate throughout the vast space.
The river state security plan includes the presence of 3,300 military and 1,500 police, and 400 military firefighters.
River and its authorities have a whole history of great concerts on the beach of Copacabana. Madonna’s show attracted an estimate of 1.6 million fans last year, while 4 million people flooded the beach for a New Year show with Rod Stewart in 1994. According to Guinness World Records, that was the largest free rock concert in history.
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