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Rock In Rio 2022 has launched a new “Global Experience” package that will give fans access to the festival on both sides of the Atlantic.The legendary festival makes its return this year after being cancelled in both 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.2022 will mark the first time that Rock In Rio will hold its Brazilian and Portuguese festivals in the same year. The Lisbon edition takes place from June 18-19 and 25-26, with the Rio De Janeiro edition following a little later in the year, September 2-4 and 8-11.Foo Fighters, Duran Duran, Black Eyed Peas and Anitta are among the names announced for the Portuguese edition; Coldplay, Post Malone, Justin Bieber, Dua Lipa, Iron Maiden, Demi Lovato and Måneskin will play the Brazilian edition.To celebrate the festival’s return, Rock In Rio has launched for the first time a combined pass that allows fans to experience the best of music and entertainment on both sides of the Atlantic – the Rock In Rio Global Experience.Festival-goers will now be able to purchase a ticket for both editions with special conditions, combining the possibility of getting to know two of the most desired tourist destinations with music and entertainment.“2022 represents the much-desired return of Rock In Rio – in Portugal and Brazil – and it is the first time that the festival takes place on both sides of the ocean, in the same year,” Roberta Medina, executive vp of Rock In Rio, said in a statement.“We wanted to mark the moment with a product that combines what we believe to be fundamental for the recovery: tourism and entertainment.

It's that time of year again when we see celebrities compete on the ice rink to our favourite tunes live on ITV.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilians on Friday were grieving the loss of legendary samba singer and force of nature Elza Soares, a day after she died in her Rio de Janeiro home.Family and friends gathered at Rio's Municipal Theater, where her body was brought for viewing, before the playhouse opened its doors to the artist's fans.“Elza went on the day she wanted, the way she wanted, without suffering. And surrounded by family,” the singer’s granddaughter, Vanessa Soares, said in an interview on TV Globo.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian samba singer Elza Soares died in her Rio de Janeiro home on Thursday afternoon, family members said on the artist's official Instagram account. She was 91.The singer “moved the world with her voice, her strength and her determination,” they said, adding she “will forever be in the history of music and in our hearts and the thousands of fans around the world."The family said Soares died of ‘’natural causes'' and did not provide further detail.Elza Gomes da Conceição was born in June 1930, in a modest Rio de Janeiro household.

EXCLUSIVE: A new musical stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1959 film Black Orpheus is being readied for a Broadway premiere next season, producers said today. The production will feature a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz, original music by Brazilian music icon Sergio Mendes, and direction and choreography by Sergio Trujillo, the Tony-winning choreographer of Ain’t Too Proud.

Ian Carlos Gonçalves de Matos, Brazil’s out diving star who competed in the 2016  Olympics, died Tuesday in Rio De Janeiro, following complications  from a throat infection. Matos was 32 years old. Matos had been in the hospital for two months for a throat infection, which ultimately spread to his stomach and lungs. “We are profoundly saddened to have received the news of the  premature death of the Olympic diver Ian Matos, aged just 32,”  Brazil’s Olympic Committee said in a statement. “Team

Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne are among a number of new names added to the 2022 edition of Rock In Rio in Brazil.The legendary Rio De Janeiro festival will take place from September 2-4 and 8-11 next year, and already features the likes of Post Malone, Iron Maiden and Måneskin alongside Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato.On September 9, Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne will play alongside Billy Idol and Capital Inicial, with tickets on sale here now.BRAZIL, WE HEARD YOU!!

GOIANIA, BRAZIL -- Struck with grief, tens of thousands of fans gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil's most popular singers who was killed a day earlier in an airplane crash at age 26.The Latin Grammy winner and four other passengers, including her producer and uncle, perished Friday when their plane crashed while flying from Mendonça's hometown of Goiania in Goias state to Caratinga, a small city in Minas Gerais state north of Rio de Janeiro.Some mourners arrived

Marília Mendonça, a popular and successful Brazilian singer, has died at the age of 26 in a plane crash north of Rio de Janeiro. Four others died in the crash.

explained to the BBC. “Because if you don’t, then the lights will go out.”The British band’s low CO2 emissions, reusable energy-based tour — eponymously named for their upcoming album “Music of the Spheres” — was announced on social media Thursday. A post shared by Coldplay (@coldplay)The 10-country showcase — which kicks off in San Jose, Costa Rica, in March and ends in Rio de Janeiro in September — will be Coldplay’s first tour in nearly five years.

stormed on the parade of music stars.

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello remain unafraid of a little P.D.A.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- As the sun went down on the Vila Cruzeiro favela on Monday, bathing this working class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro with warm evening light, kids lined up to catch a free movie screening.Some had never stepped foot in a cinema because tickets for families can be prohibitively expensive — even before the pandemic battered their parents' jobs.

Naman Ramachandran “Nemesis,” a series based on “McMafia” writer Misha Glenny’s book “Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio,” is being co-produced by BlackBox Multimedia and Boutique Filmes. The story is based on the true-life story of Antonio Francisco Lopes, who went from a poorly paid man in Rio de Janeiro to “Nem,” the leader of one of Rio’s biggest slums and Brazil’s most wanted criminal and seen as a Robin Hood figure by the poor, but hated by the Brazilian elite.

NEW YORK -- In what was otherwise a rough two weeks in Tokyo for NBC, television viewers responded — at least slightly — to the U.S. Olympic team's strong performance in the second half of the Games.NBC's prime-time broadcast viewership for the second week was down 46% compared to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics of 2016, the Nielsen company said.

Olivia Podmore, a former Olympic cyclist from New Zealand, has died at the young age of 24.

Olympics, NBC's prime time coverage is drawing about half the audience that the Games had in Rio de Janeiro five years ago.The numbers are sobering: Sunday's NBC audience of 13 million was down 51% from the 26.7 million who watched the corresponding night in Rio.

Olympics, NBC Universal is still waiting.For three straight nights, viewership for the Tokyo Games has been down more than 30% compared to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016, and the network has been hit by a steady stream of bad news regarding American competitors.The Nielsen company said 16.9 million people watched Sunday night's coverage on NBC, down 43% from the corresponding night in Rio.

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Going for another gold! Kaleo Kanahele Maclay is heading to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo to find out if she has what it takes to win again.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Rio de Janeiro-based Habanero Film Sales has licensed  U.S.

Lionel Messi has finally broken through.

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Netflix has renewed their travel show Somebody Feed Phil!

Athletes may not be superheroes, but with the amount of pressure they carry on their shoulders, they might as well be. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, 24, who made her debut at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, has made her mental health as much a priority recently as her dedication is to the sport.

Katie Taylor gave a revealing interview with Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show last night, discussing her early career, fighting at the Olympics, and the fracturing of the relationship with her father Pete.