Legendary American rocker and poet Patti Smith has reportedly been hospitalized in Italy due to an illness, which is why her performance there has been cancelled.
Italian media outlet TGCOM24 reported that Smith, 76, was due to give a concert at the Teatro Duse in Bologna before she was hospitalized in that city.
In a post on Instagram, Teatro Duse announced the cancellation of Smith’s show. “It is with great regret that we inform the kind audience that it is [Patti Smith] the concert scheduled for today, December 12, 2023 at 9 p.m., will not be able to go on stage due to the sudden illness that struck the artist,” they wrote from the venue.
The theater later added in its post: “We are all sorry for the inconvenience this news has caused. Our best wishes for a speedy recovery go out to the artist.”
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A representative for Smith did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Smith had a string of tour dates in Italy, starting with Ancona on November 28 before heading to Bari, Naples and Modena over the past two weeks. On Thursday, she was supposed to perform at the Malibran Theater in Venice.
Her next US shows were scheduled to take place on December 27th in Chicago and December 29th and 30th in Brooklyn, New York.
Last summer, Smith and her band performed at New York’s Madison Square Garden, fronting alternative rock group The National.
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Known as the “high priestess of punk poetry” and inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, Smith emerged during New York’s punk rock scene in the 1970s alongside other acts such as Blondie, Talking Heads, the Ramones and Television.
“Her raunchy authority has only been cemented by the passage of time since she began, her uncompromising poetry accompanied by proto-punk electric guitar beats of the early ’70s.” The Guardian’s The kingdom of kittens wrote about her in 2021.
Smith’s landmark 1975 debut record, fiery Horses, is considered one of the best albums of all time. Other notable works in her musical discography include albums Radio Ethiopia, Easter, Wave and He left again and songs like “Because the Night,” “Dancing Barefoot,” and “People Have the Power.”
In addition, Smith has published collections of poetry and wrote a highly acclaimed 2010 memoir. Only childrenwhich won the National Book Award for non-fiction.
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In an interview with S. 2022 Harper’s Bazaar, Smith talked about his diverse work. “Robert [Mapplethorpe, the photographer] she was always worried because I had so many different ways to express myself,” she told the magazine.
Smith added: “So many vocations, why couldn’t I stick to one? i just can’t. It’s funny because every now and then someone says very nicely that I have all these different ways of expressing myself, that I’m a renaissance woman, but even more so I think I’m a master of everything.”
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