Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro (AP) – Lady Gaga It will give a free concert in Copacabana Beach on Saturday night, the second show of this type in so many years organized by the City of Rio de Janeiro.
The program will be the greatest of the pop star career, as it was for Madonna who also turned the extensive sand section into a massive dance floor last year.
Large -scale actions are part of an effort directed by the City Council to boost economic activity after Carnival and the New Year’s Eve festivities and the next San Juan Day celebrations in June.
“He has activity to the city during what was previously considered the low season: filling hotels and increasing spending on bars, restaurants and retailers, generating jobs and income for the population,” said Osmar Lima, secretary of economic development of the city, in a statement published by the Tourism Department of Río City Hall last month.
Similar concerts are being programmed every year in May at least until 2028.
Lady Gaga arrived in Rio in the early hours of Tuesday. The city He has been alive with Gaga-Mania Since then, he prepared to welcome the Mother Monster for her first show in the country since 2012. Rio subway employees danced to the successful song of Lady Gaga “Lovegame” and gave instructions for Saturday in a video. A free exhibition that celebrates his career was exhausted. And “Little Monsters”, as they known, sang and danced in front of the Copacabana Palace, where the pop star stays, hoping to see it.
The City Council said in a recent report that around 1.6 million people are expected to attend and that the program should inject at least 600 million reais (about $ 106 million) in the river economy, almost 30% more than Madonna’s program.
Although the vast majority of attendees will be from Rio, the event is expected to attract Brazilians from all over the country and international visitors.
Ingrid Serrano, a 30 -year -old engineer, made a trip between Colombia’s content to Brazil to attend the show.
“I have been 100% of Lady Gaga’s fan all my life,” said Serrano, who wore a shirt with the extravagant costumes of Lady Gaga over the years.
For her, the mega -Estrella represents “total freedom of expression, being the one who wants without shame.”
The performance of more than 2 hours of Lady Gaga is scheduled to start at 9:45 pm local time. Sixteen sound towers have been extended throughout the beach to ensure that successes resonate in the vast space.
The river state security plan includes the presence of 3,300 military officers and 1,500 police, and 400 military firefighters.
River officials have a history of organizing large concerts in Copacabana Beach. Madonna’s program attracted approximately 1.6 million fans last year, while 4 million people flooded on the 1994 New Year’s Eve Show by Rod Stewart in 1994. According to Guinness World Records, that was The largest free rock concert in history.
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