the 59-year-old singer wants to take “a big break” after serious problems, “As age advances…”

Even though it has just been released The archipelago of aftereffectshis latest album to date, Pascal Obispo surprised his fans with a resounding announcement. The 59-year-old singer declared that he was going to have to do “a big break”
and put the music in parentheses. Serious health concerns that arose during the summer led the singer to take a step back in order to preserve his health.

His fans rest assured, Pascal Obispo, who had to cancel several dates this summer for treatment, will be in concert at the Accor Arena in Paris on January 11 and, two days earlier, with our Belgian neighbors at the Forest National from Brussels. But these will perhaps be the last opportunities to see the native of Bergerac in concert.

A summer spent in hospitals

While he has had a string of successes for over thirty years, Pascal Obispo is suffering from the passage of time. He confided that he had experienced serious health problems during the summer. “July 2024, in the middle of summer. I am being treated for renal colic, a stone in the kidney that hurts horribly. I had a first alert in Paris for a quarter of an hour, two weeks before, then a second, a little longer, in Corsica, on the day of my concert, a few hours before going on stage..

Fortunately, he was quickly taken care of by a
“local Samu team”. “The pain returns, back to the hospitaltransfer to Bordeaux the next morning. I am taken care of by extremely caring staff. Luckily, one of the doctors had done her thesis on renal colic, explaining to me that
their origins could be psychosomatic. So I understand that I am dealing with a specialist…”.

Pascal Obispo is thinking about retiring

These health problems are at the origin of a deep reflection on the future. The singer actually sees himself retiring.
“This summer, I experienced a somewhat complicated event. It’s getting better, but it’s true that physical problems start to pile up. As age advances, that’s how it is.
You have to think about what’s next…”. Even if he did not say the word retirement directly, Pascal Obispo seems to be preparing his audience for a future in which he no longer sings on stage.

A resounding announcement that he still moderated. “I will continue to make music all the time, after the stage… There, I am preparing an album of my 60th birthdayI’m preparing a kind of juggernaut of 3, 4, 5 albums to wean them off and wean off my fans.” An album, but no more stage for the singer who seems deeply impacted by the events that occurred this summer.

Pascal Obispo refuses to become an old singer

Guest of Bernard Montiel on RFM on Saturday November 16, 2024, Pascal Obispo confided his fear of being too old to go on stage. “I don’t like to see old singers
have difficulty moving around and getting on stages. It terrifies me. At some point, it’s good to ask yourself that question.
I don’t want to limpto arrive with an aging voice, you have to say to yourself that there you have it, we move on to something else.”.

“I’m going to take a big breakdefinitive or not. But after 2025, I want to do lots of other things.
This will be my last year before retirement. So, you have to take advantage of it. It’s going to be complicated afterwards. It’s tiring”. The singer then concluded by explaining that he had “desire to devote himself to painting and writing”his other passions.