STROMAE. The singer Stromae has canceled all the concerts of his tour until the end of May, due to health problems.
Cascading cancellations and fan concern. The singer Stromae, who had already announced the cancellation of several concerts, will not return to the stage before the end of May. In a new press release, his Auguri Productions team and his Mosaert label announced “the cancellation of the Stromae concerts scheduled until the end of May 2023”, namely nine dates.
“I have to resign myself to the fact that my health unfortunately does not allow me to continue coming to meet you for the moment, writes the singer Stromae in the same press release. I share this news with you with great regret and deep sadness. , but I have to listen to my limits.” The artist adds: “Surrounded by my family, I must take the time to recover to resume, when I can, the rest of the concerts.”
According to Stromae’s Multitude tour schedule, he is scheduled to return to the stage on June 1, 2023 at his home in Brussels, Belgium. For the time being, these concerts are maintained.
What disease does the singer Stromae suffer from?
The 38-year-old Belgian singer, on tour after the release of his album “Multitudes” a year ago, will be absent at least until the end of May. If Stromae’s health problems and in particular depression have been widely commented on in recent years and if he has been very transparent about it, no one knows at this stage the evil that prevents the star from performing.
Stromae will have upset even his team behind the scenes by announcing his withdrawal. Thursday April 6 in The Parisian, one of his team members tried to say a little more on condition of anonymity, without really giving an explanation. “We didn’t see anything coming,” he said, indicating that no warning signs were observed before the announcement. The artist was visibly in perfect shape since the start of his tour. In Bordeaux, where Stromae performed recently, a hall manager said he observed the singer in good health. “He stayed with us for a week in residence to prepare for the resumption of his concerts. If there had been the slightest problem, I would have known about it. And his two concerts were great”, indicates David Moison, the director of the Arkea Arena, which reports “great energy, not a failure or an incident” in Le Parisien.
Depression or burn-out… A quasi-adopted thesis
As if to accredit the speculations, the newspaper also gives the floor to a psychotherapist. According to Catherine Aimelet-Perisso, there seems to be no doubt that burnout is at the heart of the problem. If Stromae has come to this, it is “because the artist first saw nothing or wanted to see nothing”. “It’s the famous phrase: No, but it’s fine! There were probably signs, warning symptoms, like fatigue, but he didn’t want to see them. Only, burnout is a call from the body and it was he who sounded the alarm”, she analyzes…
If she admits not knowing her “specific case”, the specialist nevertheless pours out on “depression”, linked to “an injury, pain, which can reopen in certain circumstances”, especially when “we spend a energy beyond reason”. Stromae can come back according to her, if he finds a “new way to invest in his tour”, but without guarantee of escaping relapses.
Stromae’s canceled concerts
The first cancellations, from the end of March 2023, were announced by his producer for the concerts in Strasbourg and Amnéville on March 22, 23 and 24, for “medical reasons”. Then Auguri Productions had canceled new dates at the Zénith de Nantes, from March 29 to 31, considering that “Stromae’s state of health does not allow him to perform the 3 concerts scheduled for this week”.
The Belgian will also not be able to perform in Amsterdam, Toulouse, Basel, Geneva, London, Cologne, Berlin, Rome or Lyon, as was originally planned until the end of May. The concerts are purely and simply canceled and are not postponed. A ticket refund procedure will be put in place.
Mental health problems for ten years
For the time being, no official information on the state of health of Stromae has been communicated by its teams. For his part, the singer said he had to “take the time to [s]e recover”, without specifying the nature of his problems.
Stromae has had to put his career on hold in the past due to health issues. In 2013, he disappeared from radar screens, while on the “Racine Carré” tour. After being the victim of psychic decompensation caused by a reaction to an antimalarial treatment, Stromae suffered from psychic problems, comparable to a burn-out or an episode of depression, preventing him from going back on stage. After seven years of absence, he had made a thunderous return to the front of the stage in 2022, confiding in particular on his mental health problems.