Jane Birkin was to perform in Brittany where the artist has a house and lives part of the year, at Espace Avel-Vor in Plougastel-Daoulas, this Thursday, March 2, 2023. But according to our colleagues from Ouest France, the he artist who made a recent appearance at the Cesar ceremony had to cancel his concert.
A last minute cancellation that raises questions. Friday, February 24, Jane Birkin walked the red carpet of Caesar with family. Three generations reunited: Serge Gainsbourg’s muse was alongside his daughter Charlotte, and Alice Attal, his granddaughter who lives in New York but was present for this event which brings together the cinema family. His fragile health had also moved internet users. During the evening, the artist appeared physically changed and tired.
For several years, it must be said that the singer has suffered from several health problems: two cancers and a stroke have weakened her. Thus in the summer of 2022 but more recently in January the artist was forced to cancel his shows.
Jane Birkin weakened: her appearance at the Caesars worried
The artist, according to the organization of the concert, ” injured and so is “unable to perform tomorrow”, report our colleagues from West France. A last minute cancellation that raises questions. Indeed the concert of March 3 in Nantes was canceled a few days ago. “ I’m not well at all, I broke my shoulder blade and I’m in a lot of pain”said the artist, joined this Wednesday by telephone by The Telegram.
Aged 76, the singer made no secret of her health problems. She was to perform on stage to embody her latest album, a project designed with Etienne Daho.
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Jane Birkin suffered a stroke in 2021
“A friend found that I spoke strangely, she saw immediately that something was wrong”. It is with these words that the artist spoke of her stroke, explaining “that she had been very lucky”, to our colleagues from RTL in 2021. “I had a terrible headache the day before when I was promoting Charlotte’s film (Gainsbourg, his daughter, editor’s note)“, she says, “but that’s all”. “DElsewhere, the evening before I had this thing, I was singing the concert that Etienne Daho had planned for me”. After this accident, the singer had been kept at rest.
In 1998 she contracted leukemia which recurred in 2023. “The hospital is my second home, it’s not dramatic for me”declared the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg to whom we wish a speedy recovery.
Jane Birkin is due to perform at the Olympia on March 21 in Paris, it is too early to know if it will be maintained or not.