Last Updated on 09/09/2024 by Arun jain
Patti Scialfa, wife of rock star Bruce Springsteen and longtime member of his E Street Band, revealed in a new documentary that she was diagnosed with blood cancer in 2018, which has caused her to curtail her public appearances and band performances. In the years since.
Ms. Scialfa’s multiple myeloma diagnosis was revealed in “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” a behind-the-scenes documentary about the New Jersey-born artist and the famous circle of musicians around him. The film premiered this weekend at Toronto Film Festival.
“This affects my immune system, so I have to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go,” Ms. Scialfa. Told about her diagnosis In the film, according to the variety.
Ms. Scialfa, 71, has been an E Street Band institution since the 1980s before marrying Mr. Springsteen in 1991. She joined the group before opening days with Mr. Springsteen on the 1984 “Born to Run” tour, the longest and most successful in the band’s history.
She has been a fixture on stage and alongside Mr. Springsteen for decades, and has dabbled in and out of her own solo career in addition to being a backing singer in the E Street Band. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the rest E Street Band in 2014.
News of her diagnosis answered a question that has lingered around the band’s current worldwide stadium tour, now in its second year: Why Ms. Scialpha? Mostly absent From the stage, on the band’s first tour since 2016.
“Every once in a while, I get to a show or two and I get to sing a few songs on stage, and it’s a treat,” Ms. Scialfa said in the film. “That’s the new normal for me right now, and I’m okay with that.”
It was unclear whether Ms Scialfa was still receiving treatment for the disease or was in remission.
The news underscores an inescapable reality that Mr. Springsteen openly wrestled with in the last years of his career — and especially during this most recent, demanding world tour: Mortality comes, even for rock stars.
Mr. Springsteen himself was forced to postpone the stadium and arena dates to 2023. Diagnosis of peptic ulcer, And the band has suffered its share of losses as it enters its fifth decade of performing together. Mr. Springsteen still pays tribute to his bandmate and friend Clarence Clemons during his shows, E Street saxophonist who died in 2011.
However, such compelling facts did not deter Mr. Springsteen, who told fans in a Q&A session after the premiere At Toronto he had no intention of stopping.
“If I go tomorrow, that’s fine,” Mr. Springsteen said, according to Rolling Stone.
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