Lady Gaga postpones Miami Mayhem show due to vocal strain
Lady Gaga pulled the plug on her Miami Mayhem Ball show just minutes before the show was set to begin.
“Hi everyone I am really so so sorry but I need to postpone tonight’s show in Miami,” she wrote via Instagram Stories on Wednesday evening, explaining that during rehearsals, her voice was “extremely strained.”
“Both my doctor and vocal coach have advised me not to go on because of the risk it poses,” she continued.
While she wrote that she wanted to be “hardcore and just push through for you,” she didn’t want to “risk long term or permanent damage” to her vocal cords.
“There is a significant risk based on all our combined experience with a show like ours and as you know I sing live every night,” she wrote, calling the decision to call off the show “hard” and “agonizing.”
The “Poker Face” hitmaker continued, explaining that she “tried so so hard to avoid this” outcome.
“I take serious care of myself to be able to put on this highly demanding show. I love my fans so much, respect you and hope you can accept my sincere regretful apology,” she concluded the post in part, reassuring fans that she was “trying to reschedule the show as quickly as possible.”
A rep for the artist did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
Earlier this summer, the legendary songstress, 39, took a tumble on stage during her show in Las Vegas — but recovered like a pro. In a viral fan video, a cameraman for the Grammy-winning artist slipped as she sang “Vanish Into You” while walking across the stage.
A security guard caught the cameraman from behind to keep him upright, but as the singer straightened the camera and walked past them both, she slipped and went all the way down. Without missing a beat, she recovered and continued the lyrics.
In May, her Rio concert was targeted for a bomb attack by hate group members posing as “Little Monsters” — a nickname for her fans. The planned attacks didn’t materialize — investigators acting on a tip uncovered the group’s plan to act out through “extremist symbolism” and “coded language,” CNN reported at the time.
The “Paparazzi” hitmaker is scheduled to continue her tour with a stop in New York beginning Sept. 6 at Madison Square Garden.
Lady Gaga has been candid about the pressures of her career and the toll it can take on mental health — and how her mental health has affected her music.
“I would say that my mental health always played a really powerful role in making music,” she told Teen Vogue in a March interview.
“Because it was always when I was at my lowest that I wanted to sing. And that meant that I was feeling that way pretty often, because I sang a lot,” she added.
“I would write music and sing from a place of feeling lost, and it would help me ground myself and find my own voice to tell my story.”
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