Love Parade Music Festival

byJonathan Wright
August 14, 2025

In 1989, Danielle De Picciotto dreamed of witnessing Carnival in Brazil. Instead, she brought the carnival to a still-partitioned Berlin by co-creating the dance music festival, Love Parade

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