Sting has postponed two of his concerts and cancelled an upcoming appearance at an awards ceremony due to ill health, it can be revealed.
The singer, 73, has pulled out of performing at the Bass Magazine Awards this Thursday, where he was set to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award.
The Police frontman has also pushed back U.S. gigs in Phoenix, Arizona, and Wheatland, California, until later this month while he recovers.
A spokesperson for Sting confirmed in a social media post that fans should keep hold of their original tickets for when the date is rearranged.
Sting – whose real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner – sent his apologies to those due to attend the concert and thanked them for being understanding in the unexpected circumstances.
A post on his Instagram page, read: ‘On advisement from his doctor, due to illness, it is with sincere regret that Sting must cancel his appearance at the Bass Magazine Awards this Thursday…
Sting has postponed two of his concerts and cancelled an upcoming appearance at an awards ceremony due to ill health, it can be revealed
A spokesperson for Sting confirmed in a social media post that fans should keep hold of their original tickets for when the date is rearranged
‘And postpone his STING 3.0 concerts in Phoenix, AZ (originally scheduled for January 24) to June 1 and Wheatland, CA (originally scheduled for January 26) to May 28 as well as his performance at the Cherrytree Music Company’s 20th anniversary, now taking place May 29.
‘Fans should retain their tickets for the postponed shows, as they will be honoured on the new dates.
‘Sting sincerely apologises for any inconvenience and extends his gratitude to the fans for their understanding.’
Fans of the British star took to the comments section of the post to wish him a speedy recovery following the announcement.
Sharing their messages, they wrote: ‘Wishing you a speedy recovery and lots of healing time with near and dear ones’; ‘Get well soon’; ‘Prayers of healing to you! AMEN!’; ‘Take care and get well’;
‘Stingooo get well soon. Sending you hugs!’; ‘Get well soon. Sending prayers’; ‘Rest well, Sting’; ‘Please get well soon Sting, much love’; ‘Get well soon maestro. Greetings from Chile! See you soon’;
‘Sending Sting love and healing’; ‘Get better sooooon!’; ‘Hopefully the LA Fire Aid show is still on. I’d love to hear No Doubt and Sting sing Message In A Bottle in 2025’.
Sting is next slated to perform on February 8 at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, according to his tour dates.
Despite the news that he has been forced to pull out of several appearances due to illness, Sting has always prided himself on his health and fitness.
The star has previously credited his amazing shape to his macrobiotic diet, which consists of a lot of vegetables and grains, and aims to avoid toxins and processed food that contain preservatives.
The diet also centres around low consumption of meat, dairy and sugar.
Sting and his wife Trudie Styler moved their family to the Lake House Farm in Wiltshire in 1991, and adopted a self-sufficient diet, growing organic veggies ever since.
The singer’s family own a flock of free range chickens, as well as their own trout lake and even bee hives for honey.
In her 1999 book, The Lake House Cookbook, Trudie wrote: ‘I decided that I would only be satisfied if I knew exactly what we were putting on our plates.’
She also revealed that the couple enjoy a conscious approach to eating, and believe that the way ‘we treat our own bodies is by extension the way we treat the planet.’
So devoted is the singer to his diet that he reportedly keeps his own personal chef on tour with him in order to keep it up while he is away from home.
This dedication to a healthy diet does not prevent the Message in a Bottle singer from indulging in a tipple or two and the occasional ice cream.
The Roxanne singer started practising yoga in his late thirties and has now been practising it for more than 30 years (pictured in 2003)
In 2003, he told The Guardian: ‘I drink alcohol. I don’t smoke anything legal. I drink coffee. I like chocolate and ice cream. But apart from that I’m really healthy.’
He is also well known for his love of yoga, which he has been doing for more than three decades.
He admitted in an interview with his yoga instructor when he was 43 that he came to yoga late in life, aged 38-39.
According to a transcript of the interview shared on White’s White Lotus retreat website, the singer revealed he tried other fitness regimes before trying yoga.
‘I have been through various fitness regimes before, you know. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
‘I always stayed fit because I’m a performer and all of those things help me to perform.
‘But it wasn’t until I met Danny Paradise, who became my mentor in Yoga, that I started the practice which I feel I will stay with for the rest of my life,’ he added.
When he hit 60, he told Energy Times: ‘I perform on stage in much the same way I did when I was in my 20s or teens, and I’m doing it just as efficiently.
Sting gave fans an insight into his daily routing in 2021, and showed off the secret to his flat stomach with his exercise called a ‘perpetual crunch’ on TikTok
‘Two decades of yoga has given me two extra decades of this career. I wouldn’t be able to do it if I was out of shape,’ he added.
The singer is s dedicated to the practice and he is known to do his yoga even when away on tour.
In 2021, while on Lorraine Kelly’s ITV show, he joked his good looks were due to ‘vanity, and a little bit of discipline,’ before adding, ‘I studied yoga for 30 years. But everything becomes yoga after a while.’
On top of yoga, the singer also revealed he ‘swims every day, I like to walk, and I sing.’
The same year, he shared the secret to his washboard midriff in a TikTok video where he demonstrated his ‘perpetual crunch.’
The Message In A Bottle hitmaker, 70, lay on his back tensing and stating ‘Getting my tummy nice and hard’ as he showed off his incredible fitness.
He urged his fans to take up the Sting perpetual crunch challenge, writing: ‘You can do it.’
Sting and his wife Trudie have been together since 1982, and the couple share the same penchant for healthy living.
The singer has been married to producer Trudie Styler since 1992 and the pair are famous practitioners of tantric sex (pictured in London in May 2023)
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They are also known to practice tantric sex, having once made a throwaway comment about having seven-hour-long steamy sessions with his partner in the 1990s.
In the 2003 Guardian interview, the singer scoffed when he was asked whether he had any advice for people considering trying tantric sex bao dam themselves, telling his interviewer the practice is about ‘the journey; adding ‘it’s not f******* for eight hours.’
However, Sting did give more detail about his tantric connection with his wife, with whom he calls his ‘church,’ and added that sex was only the surface of a deep meaningful relationship.
Trudie and Sting, who have four children together, married in 1992.
He added the practice of tantra was about how you connect to your partner, which can happen different times throughout the day, from the way you look at them to running them a bath of giving them a massage.
In 2014, he further clarify his comments during an interview for Bravo series Inside The Actor’s Studio.
‘The idea of tantric sex is a spiritual act. I don’t know any purer and better way of expressing a love for another individual than sharing that wonderful, I call it, ‘sacrament.’ I would stand by it. Not seven hours, but the idea.’
He then quipped, ‘Seven hours includes movie and dinner,’ generating laughs from the audience.
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