Lauryn Hill says fans are “lucky” she made it on stage after cancelled shows
06.11.2023 - 01:29
/ nme.com
Lauryn Hill has responded to those who have complained about her missing recent shows, saying that fans are “lucky” she makes it on stage every night. The former Fugees singer, who is currently on tour around North America celebrating the 25th anniversary of her Grammy-winning debut solo album ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’, has had to cancel or postpone multiple shows due to an ongoing vocal injury. A concert in Philadelphia on October 22 had to be moved, while Hill was forced to cancel an October 30 show in Fort Worth, Texas.
Yesterday (November 4), she played at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, and took the time to defend herself against those who were complaining about her absences. Lauryn Hill addresses her “lateness”
—“Yo, y’all lucky I make it on this stage every night!” pic.twitter.com/ieulUzn8Bp— mya. (@myabriabe) November 5, 2023“They say, ‘she’s late a lot’,” she said, in a video posted online that you can watch above.
“Yo, y’all lucky I make it on this stage every night.” “I don’t do it because they let me do it, I do it because I stand here in the name of god,” she continued. “God is the one who allows me to do it, who surrounded me with family and community when there was no support, when the album sold so many records and no-one showed up and said ‘hey, would you like to make another one? So I went around the world and I played the same album over and over and over and over again. Because we’re the survivors.
We’re not just the survivors, we’re the thrivers.” Hill issued a statement after cancelling the Fort Worth show, explaining that “I fought through the last couple shows, pushing my voice, and masking the injury with medication. This isn’t safe or sustainable. I woke up this morning hoping to have
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