Demi Lovato swapped the scale of Rock in Rio's main stage for a more intimate night with fans at Suhai Music Hall in São Paulo on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, just two days after performing on the festival's Palco Mundo. The American singer expanded her setlist for the club show, adding a surprise song and an emotional moment in which she opened up to the crowd.
Lovato opened the concert with more choreography than usual, performing songs from her latest album, It's Not That Deep, alongside professional dancers in a set built around dance floor energy. The show began with a run of "Fast," "Kiss" and "Frequency." She laughed during the second song after the crowd's singing caught her off guard, and the noise grew louder still when she moved into "Heart Attack," one of the biggest hits of her career.
From there, Lovato moved through different eras of her catalogue. "Tell Me You Love Me" and "Confident" came before the newer "Low Rise Jeans" and "Fantasy," while "Solo," her 2018 collaboration with Clean Bandit, kept the energy up ahead of a shift in tone.
Demi Lovato cries after Skyscraper
The show reached one of its most emotional points after "Skyscraper," one of the biggest songs of Lovato's career. She cried after performing it and told the audience she had been through a difficult day.
She said she had had a hard day and that the fans made everything better, adding that she owed them a lot and was very happy to be there, calling them the most incredible fans.
The remark drew screams and applause before she moved on to "Give Your Heart a Break." "Say It" and "Little Bit" followed, until "Ghost" once again brought emotion to the center of the performance, with a visibly moved Lovato singing the track as fans sang along.
Throughout the night, tears shared space with lighter moments. Lovato talked, joked and laughed with the crowd, poking fun when someone sang at the wrong moment or landing jokes of her own. The pace picked back up with "Here All Night" and "Joshua Tree," setting up one of the distinctive features of the tour: a different surprise song chosen for each stop.
Unbroken track becomes São Paulo surprise
For the São Paulo crowd, Lovato picked "My Love Is Like a Star," a track from Unbroken, the album she released in 2011. After the surprise, "Let You Go" pulled the show back into a more intimate register and paved the way for "Stone Cold," another of the best-known ballads in her repertoire.
The mood shifted again soon after. "Sorry Not Sorry" and "Really Don't Care" handed the energy back to the crowd in the closing stretch, before the interlude of "Before I Knew You" set up the finale.
Classic song closes São Paulo night
Lovato returned to the stage for the final stretch of the show with "Sorry to Myself." "Cool for the Summer," one of the biggest hits of her career, closed out the night.
In the end, the surprise choice of "My Love Is Like a Star" may have summed up the spirit of the evening. In the song, Lovato sings about a love that, like a star, can feel distant but is never fully out of reach. In São Paulo, in front of fans who have followed her through different stages of her career, that distance felt small.
Lovato is known for her Disney Channel career as a teenager before establishing herself as a pop and dance-pop artist, with hits including "Heart Attack," "Skyscraper," "Sorry Not Sorry" and "Cool for the Summer." Rock in Rio, where she performed on the Palco Mundo two days before the São Paulo club show, is one of Brazil's largest music festivals, held in Rio de Janeiro and drawing major international acts each edition.
