While on tour with his legendary band Genesis, Phil Collins has his fans worried. His state of health is questionable. Music Times gives details on the physical condition of the 71-year-old singer.
Against All Odds. At 71, Phil Collins East still active in musicand intends to stay in the middle until the end! The British singer made a return to the stage in September 2021, and is currently on tour with his mythical group, Genesis. Wednesday March 9, then in concert in Berlin, the old drummer introduced himself emaciated and had to sit on a chair. The magazine Music Times give some reasons at this weakening, indicating that he started in 2009 at a concert. « I dislocated some vertebrae in the upper neck, and it affected my hands “, explained at the time Phil Collins to BBC Breakfast.
« After a successful operation on my neck, my hands still can’t work normally. (…) For the moment, it is can’t play drums or the piano “, he had explained. Barely recovered from this injury, the singer of Another Day in Paradise a souffert d ‘type 2 diabetesreports Music Timesleading to a diabetic abscess who got infected on his foot. Since then, he would be suffering from drop foot syndromepathology preventing him from moving normally and forcing him to use a cane.
Phil Collins perseveres for this farewell tour
It is this foot drop syndrome that made him fall badly in his hotel room in 2017, between two concerts. He then canceled his next two performances. It was thirteen years that the interpreter of You’ll be in my heart had not happened.
Despite these recurring health problemsPhil Collins keep going on stage and give his fans the best possible performance. Next March 16 It will be the last date in France from The Last Domino Tour, with Genesis. Along with the guitarist Mike Rutherford and the singer Tony BanksPhil Collins will perform at Paris La Défense Arena, for this farewell of the mythical rock band.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.
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