The American country singer Dolly Parton announced Monday that she is canceling for the second time her Las Vegas residency, rescheduled for September, citing health problems.
“The good news is that I am responding very well to medications and treatments and I am getting better every day. The bad news is that it’s going to take me a while to be at stage performance level,” the singer reported in a statement in a video on her official Instagram account.
Parton used humor to explain that the treatments cause a slight dizziness that prevents her from “carrying banyos, guitars and so on in six-inch heels.”
“Not to mention all those over-the-top sequined outfits, the voluminous hair, my big personality – my God, that would make anyone dizzy!” she joked.
The 80-year-old singer announced last June that she would perform six concerts at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in December, after nearly a decade away from touring.
However, her health problems forced her to reschedule them to September of this year.
Parton had a difficult year following the death last March of her husband of six decades, Carl Thomas Dean, an asphalt paver whom she married in May 1966.
She was also unable to attend the Hollywood Academy’s Governors Awards ceremony due to health problems, where she was to be honored with an honorary Oscar at a gala held on November 16.
The singer, who has won 11 Grammy Awards, was the first country artist to receive the Grammy MusiCares Person of the Year Award.
In 2020, Parton released the book ‘Songteller: My Life in Lyrics’ as part of a trilogy exploring her life and offering an intimate look at her creative process as an artist and country music legend, and three years later the singer presented ‘Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones’.
Parton is known worldwide for hits such as ‘9 to 5’ or ‘Jolene’, but she has also dedicated much of her life to philanthropic work, a commitment now recognized by the Hollywood Academy.
Since 1988, Dolly Parton has directed the Dollywood Foundation, focused mainly on promoting education for children in her home state of Tennessee, and during the covid-19 pandemic she was one of the key donors for the initial development of the Modern vaccine, among other actions, reported Agencia EFE.
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