Crowds flock to free Lady Gaga concert in Brazil

Large crowds person gathered successful Rio de Janeiro for a escaped Lady Gaga performance owed to footwear disconnected connected Saturday nighttime connected Copacabana beach.

The Brazilian authorities accidental they expect 1.6m radical to be the event.

The performance is being paid for by the metropolis successful an effort to revitalise Rio's economy, and they expect it could bring successful $100m (£75m) to the section economy.

Saturday's show is portion of a promotional circuit for Lady Gaga's eighth album, Mayhem, whose songs see Abracadabra and Die With a Smile.

Some fans - known arsenic Gaga's "Little Monsters" - began queuing aboriginal successful the greeting and waited successful agelong lines to summation entree to the beach.

A monolithic information cognition is successful place, with 5,000 constabulary officers connected work and attendees having to walk done metallic detectors. The authorities are besides utilizing drones and facial designation cameras to assistance constabulary the event.

Lady Gaga is not the archetypal idiosyncratic to play a escaped performance successful Rio. Madonna gave a performance connected Copacabana formation successful May 2024, which was besides paid for by the city.

Many radical travelled from each crossed the state to spot the concert.

One man, 28-year-old Luan Messias, said helium spent each nighttime connected a autobus from Itanhaem successful neighbouring Sao Paulo state.

"I can't hold for her to sing Abracadabra, it's large to creation to, similar her aboriginal stuff," helium said.

Alisha Duarte, 22, told AFP quality bureau she started queuing astatine 0740 successful the morning. "Lady Gaga is worthy it! It's going to get ace crowded, but we'll survive," she said.

Another fan, Paulo Oliveira, explained wherefore radical were truthful excited astir the concert. She "tells america that we tin beryllium who we are, that we tin beryllium antithetic and that being antithetic is cool," helium told Reuters.

It's going to beryllium an "unforgettable show", performance attendee Lai Borges told Reuters. "It's going to beryllium affectional and I'm going to outcry a lot," she said.