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Madonna calls her children her 'ride or dies' after wrapping up The Celebration Tour with record-setting Rio de Janeiro show


The 65-year-old pop superstar drew an estimated 1.6 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with her free concert this past Saturday.

The Grammy-winning singer, whose full name is Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, is mother to six kids: Lourdes Leon, 27, Rocco Ritchie, 23, David Banda, 18, Mercy James, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 11. The artist of hits including Vogue, Material Girl and Papa Don't Preach began the series of images with a black-and-white shot of her son David Banda as he toted a guitar case down the hallway of a hotel. The 1.6 million people attendees - which Rio City Hall's tourism agency confirmed, according to G1 - was tenfold the amount of Madonna's previous one-show total of 130,000 concertgoers, which came in August of 1987 at the Parc des Sceaux in Paris.

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