Grande cancels show due to ‘unforeseeable health reasons’

Grande cancels show due to ‘unforeseeable health reasons’

NEW YORK

Ariana Grande has canceled a Las Vegas performance days before New Year’s Eve “due to unforeseeable health reasons.”

Grande was originally scheduled to perform at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas today. The hotel said Friday in a statement to The Associated Press that the pop star will not perform.

The hotel said guests can receive refunds at their point of purchase.

Grande has had a busy year: Her song “Thank U, Next” is spending its sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, she recently earned two Grammy nominations and was named woman of the year by Billboard. Her year also included the end of her relationship with comedian-actor Pete Davidson and the death of her former boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller.

After a decade of dormancy, Chaka Khan blooms again

PASADENA, Calif.

If Chaka Khan were a flower, she’d be a perennial.

“Because I go dormant and then I ...” Khan stops and gracefully lifts her arms together, then slowly brings her hands apart, like a tulip emerging in spring.

“I’ve done it many, many times,” explained the singer, perhaps best known for her multimillion-selling 1984 cover of Prince’s “I Feel For You.”

On the brink of her first new album in a decade, and, on New Year’s Day, serving as grand marshal at the Rose Parade, Chaka Khan is in bloom again.

After receiving the call from the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, the term “grand marshal” had the 65-year-old Khan’s mind running wild.

Khan also will open parade festivities with a performance. Khan said she would sing two songs: “I Feel for You,” as well as “Hello Happiness,” the second single from the new album.

The new album, expected by the end of 2019, is her first since the well-received 2008 “C.K.”

Associated Press