Teenager Ella Yelich-O'Connor, who uses her stage name Lorde,
has been touring North and South America over the past few
months and played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts
Festival over the Easter weekend.
She was due to kick off the seven-concert Australian leg of her
world tour in Melbourne on Thursday.
"It breaks my heart to have to postpone these shows as the band
and I absolutely love playing to Australian crowds, and it was
not a decision we made lightly," Yelich-O'Connor said in a
statement issued through her promoter, Frontier Touring.
"I know I need to focus on getting better in order to perform at
my best. We'll be with you as soon as we can, Aussies," she
said.
The teenager, whose breakthrough hit "Royals" was
No.1 on music
charts around the world in 2013, also won a Grammy for Song of
the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance in January.
Yelich-O'Connor told her 1.5 million followers on Twitter she
had a "nasty chest infection and general ill health".
Frontier Touring said they are rescheduling dates for Lorde's
Australian tour.
(Reporting by Thuy Ong; editing by Paul Tait)
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