The British pop superstar Adele is not on tour in Brazil at the moment, but her absence was deeply regretted last week in Rio de Janeiro – not at a major festival like Rock in Rio or a mega-concert like Madonna’s at Copacabana Beach, but rather on a computer screen in a courtroom.
The 16-time Grammy award winner had been expected to participate via video call in a conciliation hearing for a case in which she – along with her frequent co-songwriter and producer Greg Kurstin, and the Brazilian subsidiaries of Sony and Universal Music – is accused of plagiarising a classic Brazilian samba.
