Just days before the start of their 2024 national tour, Ms. Lauryn Hill and the Fugees have canceled their entire travel schedule.
The news was delivered to Live Nation patrons via email last night. It is the third time in the last three years that the Grammy-winning group has canceled their tour.
Ticket holders will receive a refund, the cancellation email states. The first performance was scheduled to take place this Friday.
The LA Times reported that the group “announced a reunion tour for 2021 but played only a single date before canceling the tour due to difficulties the group described as pandemic-related. Hill and the Fugees toured again in late 2023 but then canceled concert dates a second time, with Hill citing ‘severe vocal strain.'”
While the reasons for the cancellation of this tour are currently unknown, in 2023, according to the LA Times, Hill gave “a six-minute speech that went viral about her reputation for starting shows late (“You’re lucky I make it to this…stage every night,” she told the audience) and how she is mistreated by the record industry.”
This monologue was the precursor to her cancellation in 2023.
According to the official Grammy website, Hill has won eight of the prestigious awards throughout her solo and group career, and in 1998 she even became “the first woman to win five or more awards in a single night.”
Hill and the Fugees’ musical repertoire spans generations, and songs such as “Ready or Not,” “Fu-Gee-La,” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song” can still be heard in films and television shows today.
