Patti Smith collapsed during a representation in Brazil after suffering a severe migraine for several days. Smith, 78, occurred with the Berlin Soundwalk group, in which she recites her writing to musical support.
Associated Press reported that the Folha newspaper of S Paulo said Smith passed out about 30 minutes from the event while reading an article on the climate crisis. After falling, she was caught behind the scenes in a wheelchair.
Smith returned on stage to apologize for having to interrupt the performance. “Unfortunately, I fell ill and the doctor said I couldn’t finish,” she told the crowd of the wheelchair. “So we will have to understand something. And I feel very bad.
The crowd replied: “Don’t be, we love you.”
By publishing on Instagram, the collective said that despite his migraine, Smith “still wanted to be there for all of us and you and play today” – Wednesday, the final date of a series of dates of South American tour.
“She is now treated by the best doctors in the most loving way and will be back on stage tomorrow evening (Thursday),” said the collective.
Smith also signed the declaration, which continued: “Patti says that she is extremely grateful for your patience and your forgiveness and that she sends her love to all those who have witnessed.”
In March, artists such as Michael Stipe, Kim Gordon, Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Chrissie Hynde and Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles will perform during a marking 50 -year tribute concert of Canon Punk album by Smith.
They asked fans to “refrain from pose (images) at this sensitive moment”. Nevertheless, videos published online showed Smith lying on the ground at the cultura artística theater.
Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective have collaborated on several albums since 2016, including the most recent, The Perfect Vision: Reworking, was released in 2022. Smith’s latest solo album was Banga, released in 2012. In the meantime, she wrote several acclaimed . Books, including M train and the year of the monkey.
In December 2023, she was briefly hospitalized in Italy for “sudden illness”. In 2020, she told The Guardian that she had struggled during the pandemic due to a bronchial condition for life that kept her inside. “To be in limbo almost 10 months, for a person like me who does not like to sit in the same place, it was very difficult,” she said. “I feel like I was partly wolf, itinerant from one room to another.”
