The queen of pop will conclude her “Celebration Tour” on Saturday, with the most monumental concert of her career, on the most beautiful stage in the world, the Brazilian beach of Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro. The producers expect no less than 1.5 million spectators.
Published on 02/05/2024 12:33
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Here is an event entirely in his image, which turns the city of Rio de Janeiro upside down. To mark her 40 years of career and the end of a world tour, modestly titled “Celebration Tour”, Madonna will give a giant and free concert, Saturday May 4, on the legendary Copacabana beach in Brazil.
Madonna, whose real name is Véronica Louise Ciccone, chose as her stage name the first name of her mother, who died when she was 5 years old of breast cancer. The scar of her childhood, the absence of a parent, was the breeding ground for her rage to live and to conquer, to realize her dream: not to be a singer but a singing star. She had even declared that she would only be happy the day she was as famous as God, and it is true that we were not far from that at one time.
For the occasion, the legendary Copacabana Palace hotel was connected by a footbridge to the beach, where a gigantic 800 m2 stage has been enthroned for several days. Faced with this scene, the organizers plan to bring together up to 1.5 million spectators, that is to say at least as many as the Rolling Stones in 2006.
Since her debut, the star has never feared controversy or paradoxes. The “Material Girl”, the mystical and scandalous Madonna, the punkette of the 1980s, denounced the ostracization of AIDS patients, but was above all condemned by the Vatican for blasphemy, after dancing in front of burning crosses and kissing the statue of a black saint, for the music video for the song “Like au Prayer”.
In 1987, Madonna emerged from a huge cake singing “Like a virgin”dressed in a wedding dress and a belt, on which one could read “toy boy”, toy boy. Tough, ambitious, and not afraid to come across as a bitch, she is, in her own words, the result “of his good and bad choices”. His strength is perhaps that he has never been afraid of making a mistake, of falling, or, if he was, of never having shown it. And if it has often been said that she was “finished”if we no longer really know today what she sings, nor what she looks like, ultimately it doesn’t matter, as long as the audience is there.
