Madonna invited survivors of the 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting and their families to the Miami stop of her Celebration Tour on April 9 at the Kaseya Center. 'This s--- is not supposed to happen. Don't forget about it,' she said on stage.
The Queen of Pop invited survivors of the 2016 mass shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub and their families to her Miami concert on April 9Sadie Bell is a Digital News Writer on the Music team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023. Her work has previously appeared in Alternative Press, Billboard, NYLON, Rolling Stone, and Thrillist.Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and he’s worked at PEOPLE since 2022.
As Madonna addressed the survivors and their families, she began to get choked up and admitted to feeling "emotional" about the moment. "I make dance music. My job is to bring people together, to make people dance, to make people happy, to not judge. This s--- is not supposed to happen. Don’t forget about it," she said.
After she was handed a guitar, the Grammy winner began to cry, as she asked the audience to turn on their phone flashlights. During her performance of the 1986 classic"Live to Tell," she specifically takes a moment to reflect upon on people like Keith Haring, to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
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