Christine and the Queens has cancelled all his remaining tour dates for 2023 after falling ill.
The French singer, 35, who also goes by the name Redcar, Red or Chris, has been forced to cut short his current tour on doctor’s advice.
The tour for his fourth album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love was due to be taking place in North America currently until October 26.
Chris was then due to embark on the European leg, with the final concert taking place in Paris’ L’Olympia on November 27.
However on Sunday evening, a statement was posted to the artist’s Instagram that read: ‘CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS – REMAINING 2023 TOUR DATES CANCELLED.
Sad news: Christine and the Queens has cancelled all his remaining tour dates for 2023 after falling ill (pictured earlier this month)
Cancellation: The French singer, 35, who also goes by the name Redcar, Red or Chris, has been forced to cut short his current tour on doctor’s advice (pictured in March)
‘Red (aka Christine and the Queens) was taken ill today and on advice of doctors forced to make the difficult decision to cancel all remaining tour dates for 2023.
‘The tour was scheduled to resume tonight in Montreal and end in Paris in late November. Refunds are available at point of purchase.’
It comes after Chris was forced to postpone several shows and the release of his album Redcar les adorables étoiles last year, after suffering an injury.
He revealed he ‘injured himself on stage while dancing’ in rehearsals and was ‘forbidden’ by doctors from performing last September.
A statement read: ‘At the end of rehearsals for the show ‘Redcar les adorables étoiles’ on Thursday night, Red injured himself on stage while dancing.
‘The doctors have forbidden him to return to the stage for at least 3 weeks, the time to recover. We are therefore obliged to cancel the concert in Arles on 17 September and to postpone the concerts in Paris and London.
‘As a result, the album “Redcar les adorables étoiles” originally scheduled for release on 23 September has been moved to 11 November exclusively for the show.
‘We apologize for the inconvenience. It’s going to be fire!’
The tour for his fourth album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love was due to conclude in Paris on November 27, but on Sunday evening, a statement was posted to the artist’s Instagram that read: ‘CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS – REMAINING 2023 TOUR DATES CANCELLED’
Postponed: It comes after Chris was forced to postpone several shows and the release of his album Redcar les adorables étoiles last September, after suffering an injury while dancing in rehearsals (pictured in June)
Chris’ latest LP, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, was released in June to critical acclaim and featured collaborations with Madonna.
The 65-year-old pop icon plays a mysterious character who appears throughout the album.
Speaking about the collaboration, Chris told the BBC: ‘What is the most emblematic female voice we have in the pop landscape? She has such an imprint on everybody’s subconscious.
‘She did a very risky FaceTime when I explained the whole concept and I was like, “Do you want to be an actress in this weird musical? To be exactly also the great actress you are?” Because she’s multifaceted. She’s not even enclosed in one person.
‘And she said, “Yes!” I think because she was enticed by the insanity of the whole thing. She was like, “You’re crazy. I’ll do it!”
‘I sent her lines that I wrote because she’s embodying the character of Big Eye, a very ambivalent ‘being of light’. We don’t really know if it’s AI, a true angel, or maybe my mum?
‘Or if it’s maybe me. She has this voice that encloses all of the others and she’s piercing through in the record to just give the wisdom we need.’
Chris recently opened up about his journey with gender in a candid three-minute TikTok video in August 2022.
Iconic: Chris’ latest LP, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, was released in June to critical acclaim and featured collaborations with Madonna (pictured in 2018)
The musician revealed to his fans he has been living as a man ‘for a year now, a little more officially in my family and in my relationship. It is a long process.’
He also updated his pronouns across all of his social media platforms to he/him and said ‘Je me genre au masculin’ meaning, ‘I self-gender as male’.
Chris, whose real name Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier, told The New York Times that his journey with gender ‘has always been tumultuous’.
He said: ‘It’s raging right now, as I’m just exploring what is beyond this. A way to express it could be switching between they and she,’ before saying he wants to ‘tear down that system that made us label genders in such a strict way.’
Speaking to The Guardian in November, Chris said: ‘I am in resistance to the approach of trans identity that there has to be hormones and operations.
‘It’s abiding by a binary system that I don’t believe in. Binarism has been made to control. The system itself imposes a lot of performance on everybody from birth and I want to free myself and everybody else in the conversation.
‘I am sick of having to define myself with their grotesque tools of oppression. And I don’t think I owe anyone scars, to be precise.’
Chris added that becoming a trans man was liberating, but was also very hard for him.
Candid: Chris opened up about his journey with gender in a TikTok in August 2022, revealing he has been living as a man ‘for a year now, a little more officially in my family and in my relationship’
Rollercoaster: Chris, whose real name Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier, told The New York Times that his journey with gender ‘has always been tumultuous’ (pictured in 2019)
He explained: ‘It took time for me to say, because I was terrified of having to act on it… and I think since I’ve been talking about it, and understanding from inside who I was, I’ve been fighting sometimes trans people, who want me to formulate myself to be a ‘proper’ trans man.
‘Who are we doing this for? Everyone’s different. I know people who have been blossoming and thriving on hormones, reaching their proper incarnation, and I respect that, but my approach is I want to thrive in that contradiction.
‘I want to make it a poem, to help deconstruct the violence of a system. But personally, I don’t feel I need to change anything about me. I think what needed to be changed was self-hate, dysphoria and self-harm.’
His mother, Martine Letissier, died suddenly in April 2019 of a heart infection between his two sets at Coachella, causing him to cancel the show to rush home to France.
Chris was plunged into a deep grief after her death, and released his EP La vita nuova in response, with some critics calling it his strongest work yet.
But he also admitted: ‘When my mother was alive, I think I had to be a daughter for her. And, by the way, I loved her, so I was not super mad [annoyed] about this.
‘But there was a huge chunk of me that did not even connect, I think, to my trans identity when she was alive, because to be feminine was an element of what she needed also.’
Chris is also pansexual, explaining in a 2016 interview with the BBC, that being pansexual means ‘that I can fall in love with someone regardless of their gender, regardless of how they define themselves’.
He added: ‘I don’t really see that as an obstacle, as a definition. Bisexual is still being binary, I’m just trying to escape any labels.’
Tragic: His mother, Martine Letissier, died suddenly in April 2019 of a heart infection between his two sets at Coachella, causing him to cancel the show to rush home to France (pictured at Coachella in April 2019)
