Singer Véronique Sanson, 75, “suffers from pneumonia” and was hospitalized during the night from Saturday to Sunday, “which forces her to cancel a concert planned for Sunday at the Zénith in Nantes,” announced to the AFP its press officer. “The concert is postponed to Thursday May 30, tickets remain valid,” said the same source in a press release.
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 two dates at the Grand Rex, scheduled for June 3 and 4 and the summer festivals.
The artist, who rocked generations with her unrivaled raucous vibrato from the 1970s, a time when female singer-songwriters were few in number, signaled the end of yé-yé with her first album Amoureuse, released in 1972, when 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.