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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
Florence Welch suffers vocal injury, withdraws from Euro festivals
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 13 July 2012
Florence And The Machine’s Florence Welch has been encouraged to cancel her appearances at Spain’s Benicassim and Portugal’s Optimus Alive festivals, having just sustained damage to her vocal cords.
Writing via a series of Twitter posts, the singer said: “It finally happened, I’ve lost my voice. I’ve sustained a vocal injury and have been told I cannot sing for a week. Seriously, I felt something snap, it was very frightening. Unfortunately this means I will not be able to perform at Benicassim and Optimus Alive festivals this weekend.
She continued: “I’m so sorry to all the fans, I was desperate to still perform, but was told without question not to, so as not to do permanent damage. I hope I can make it up to you in the future, have an amazing time… yours croakily, Florence”.
