(New York) Popular singer Madonna, 64, fell ill with a “serious bacterial infection” last weekend that put her in intensive care and forced her to postpone her new tour of North America and Europe, which was due to begin in mid-July, according to Agent announced on Wednesday.
“Her health is improving but she remains under medical care” and “we are awaiting a full recovery,” her manager Guy Oseary wrote on her Instagram account, without saying if Madonna was still in the hospital or receiving treatment at home.
“On Saturday 24 June, Madonna contracted a serious bacterial infection that led to her being in intensive care for several days,” Mr Oseary revealed.
“At this point we have to suspend all commitments, including the tour,” announced the world star’s agent, promising to announce new dates for the tour “soon”. The Celebration Tour originally planned for July through December in North America and Europe, including Paris and London.
Madonna’s first concert, celebrating some 40 years of unprecedented career and influence, was scheduled to take place in Vancouver on July 15.
The tickets for the 35 dates that were to follow from Vancouver to Las Vegas via all major cities in North America (Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, etc.) were almost all sold out in January last year.
There party tour was then due to cross the Atlantic in October to do concerts in London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Amsterdam, for a final show on 1st Aprilum December 2023.
“I’m excited to explore as many songs as I can in hopes of giving my fans the spectacle they’ve been waiting for,” she said on her website in January in a video she shot during a dinner with celebrities Diplo , Jack Black and Lil Wayne shows and Bob the Drag Queen.
“The 1980s, 1990s, 2000s; Four decades of music “with me” (in French in the text)”, she had started and raised a cup.
Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Michigan in August 1958 to Italian and French-Canadian parents. She began her career as a dancer, songwriter and singer in New York in the late 1970s.
She has won seven Grammy Awards, including 14 studio albums as well as performance CDs, film soundtracks, compilations… Her career as a producer, actress and film director over the past 40 years has made her one of the most influential artists in the world.
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