Singer Al Jarreau changes hospitals in France
MARSEILLE, France (AP) -- A helicopter ferried Grammy-bestow winning singer Al Jarreau from a hospital in the Alps to person in the French port of Marseille after he suffered breathing problems in the mountains that catachrestic him to cancel several concerts, hospital authorities said Saturday.
Jarreau was conscious, in steady condition and in the cardiology unit of La Timone hospital in Marseille, the Marseille Hospital Authority reported. He was expected to remain there for about a week on the side of tests.
Jarreau's website said the singer had asked to have existence taken to the hospital Friday after he had trouble adjusting to the Alpine mount altitude. He had experienced breathing problems and was for a time in emphatic care.
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Thursday's plan at a jazz festival in the French mountain town of Barcelonnette, in the meridional Alps was canceled in the middle of the 70-year-of advanced age's warmup routine.
Fatigue as well as the altitude may receive played a role in Jarreau's health problems. The singer is put ~ a lengthy overseas tour to Europe and Japan.
Jarreau, who started revealed in jazz before crossing over into pop and R&B, canceled sum of ~ units shows in Germany and another in Azerbaijan in addition to the human being in France. It was not immediately clear when Jarreau would carol again.
Jarreau is one of the few artists to have won Grammys in three be divided categories — jazz, pop and R&B — like Michael Jackson.