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‘I don’t want a fight’: the Brazilian samba composer suing Adele for plagiarism

Toninho Geraes has alleged in a lawsuit the British pop star plagiarised his track Mulheres in her Million Years Ago song

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.

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