Taylor Swift plays surprise song after fan dies before concert

Taylor Swift seemed to pay tribute to a fan who died before one of her concerts with a special song during a performance in Rio de Janeiro.

Swift is currently on her Eras Tour, but she postponed one of her concerts after a 23-year-old woman who had been at the arena where she was performing ahead of her Friday (17 November) concert was rushed to hospital and sadly died.

Paramedics tended to Ana Clara Benevides Machado at the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos and took her to hospital, but she died of 'cardiac arrest due to dehydration' around an hour after arriving.

Brazil is experiencing a significant heatwave and during her Friday performance, Swift had to ask stadium staff to hand out water to her fans.

Now, the singer appears to have paid tribute to the 23-year-old as she performed the surprise song 'Bigger Than the Whole Sky', which is about grieving someone who died too soon.

The 23-year-old's father spoke out about the loss of his daughter, as Weiny Machado said he wanted to know if fans entering the stadium for the concert had been stopped from bringing their own water in.

He said: "I lost my only daughter, a happy and intelligent girl. She was about to graduate in Psychology next April.

"I want it to be found out whether they were in fact prohibited from bringing water, whether there was negligence in providing assistance."

"I know that the singer was handing out water to her fans, and that is absurd for an event of this size.

"Nothing will bring my daughter back, but I hope that, if negligence is confirmed, someone will be punished, so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else."

Swift had previously posted a tribute on Instagram to Machado where she wrote: "I can’t believe I’m writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show.

“I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this. There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.

"I feel overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it. I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends.

“This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.”