Singer Véronique Sanson, 75, “suffers from pneumonia” and was hospitalized during the night from Saturday to Sunday, “which forces her to cancel a concert scheduled for Sunday at the Zénith in Nantes,” announced her assistant. press.
“The concert is postponed to Thursday May 30, tickets remain valid,” said the same source in a press release.
An anniversary tour
The singer, author and composer, successfully treated for amygdala cancer in 2018, is celebrating her 50th career with a tour which notably took her for three evenings to the Grand Rex in Paris, where she celebrated her 75th birthday. last Wednesday and where she must return in June. The concert in Nantes was to be the last in a series before the summer festivals.
The artist, who rocked generations with her unrivaled hoarse vibrato from the 1970s, a time when female singer-songwriters were few in number, marked the end of the yéyé years with her first album “Amoureuse”, then that she was 22 years old.
In the wake of the revolution led by the Beatles, she made French resonate like Anglo-Saxon pop, thanks to her unique phrasing and her piano flights.