Pussycat Dolls play first show in Brazil with samba school on stage
The group performed in São Paulo with three of its six members and nods to the country, before a nostalgic crowd.
Translated from the Portuguese original by the Panorama newsroom. Read in Portuguese
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Two decades after its formation, The Pussycat Dolls played its first show in Brazil on Friday (30), in São Paulo, according to Folha de S.Paulo. The performance filled half the capacity of Nubank Parque, since the other half of the tickets was not put on sale.
To make up for the wait, the group made special gestures to the country: wore costumes in the colors of the Brazilian flag, spoke phrases in Portuguese and brought a samba school with drum queens to the stage.
The audience was made up of nostalgic fans who never had the chance to see the girl group, which dominated the charts in the 2000s and broke up in 2009.
Of the six members, only three came: Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt. The group is also known by the acronym PCD.
The return had been announced before, with five members, without Melody Thornton, and a world tour with three stops in Brazil in 2020, but it was canceled because of the Covid pandemic. At the time, they released "React," their first single in 11 years.