Famous singer Celine Dion suffers from a neurological condition that forced her to cancel her 2023 European tour, the Nyon Paleo Festival (Switzerland), one of the venues where the Canadian artist was scheduled to perform, reported today. next July 17. .

The announcement by the organizers of the Swiss festival, one of the big summer events with music in the country, coincided with the publication of a video of Dion on his YouTube channel in which he confessed that he suffers from the so-called “shoulder syndrome”, which causes muscle spasms that prevent it from acting.

“A great medical team is working with me to help me get better, and my kids also give me hope and support,” Dion said in the video, where she is emotional and tearfully notes that “everything what I know how to do, what I have done in my life and what I like the most is to sing”.

The organizers of the Paléo Festival expressed in the press release their wishes for a speedy recovery to the interpreter of hits like my heart Will Go On and indicated that they will refund the amount of all tickets already purchased.

Previously, the singer had already delayed her European tour by a year, from 2022 to 2023, due to muscle problems which were eventually diagnosed as symptoms of a rare disease which, in Dion’s own words, “affects a one in a million”. .

“The spasms affect every aspect of my life, sometimes they make it difficult for me to walk, and they also don’t allow me to use my vocal cords like before,” says Dion, who expresses hope that “I’m already on the road to recovery”.