“I have just been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in the lung”: Florent Pagny stops his 60th birthday tour

One word, "sorry", and a message a little over a minute long.

Florent Pagny threw a chill by making this evening at 7:30 p.m. on his Instagram account “a somewhat special announcement”.

“I will not be able to complete my 60th anniversary tour, he announced in a video message.

I have to cancel all of my concerts due to a health problem.

I have just been diagnosed with a tumor in the lung, a cancerous tumor that is not very sympathetic and cannot be operated on.

So I have to go into a six-month protocol of chemotherapy and X-rays.

The singer repeatedly said "sorry".

“But hey, you all know that in life, the most important thing is health and when you have a problem it becomes a priority.

Me and my other half have to put ourselves in warrior mode in order to face this rather special ordeal.

He specified that all the tickets purchased for his tour which ran until the end of July – that is to say about forty dates, including several summer festivals – will obviously be reimbursed.

"Take care and when this is all over we'll meet again and I'll come finish what I started."

This may be the 61-year tour.

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Florent Pagny's tour had been on hiatus for a month due to health restrictions, and was to resume this Tuesday evening in Tours.

The artist clarified his participation in "The Voice", the eleventh season of which will begin on February 12 on TF 1. "You will still see me on the red armchair of

in great shape since we have everything recorded before.

And besides, incidentally, this season is very interesting”.

But he did not mention the last live broadcasts, at the end of the season, scheduled for the spring.