Pop star Ariana Grande on Wednesday suspended her tour until early
June at the earliest after a deadly attack on her show in Manchester
that left 22 people dead.
Pop star Ariana Grande on Wednesday suspended her tour until early June at the earliest after a deadly attack on her show in Manchester that left 22 people dead.
"Due
to the tragic events in Manchester, the 'Dangerous Woman' tour with
Ariana Grande has been suspended until we can further assess the
situation and pay our proper respects to those lost," a statement from her management at Universal Music said.
Grande,
who has returned to the United States, will cancel shows scheduled
Thursday and Friday at London's 02 Arena as well as concerts through
June 5 in Belgium, Germany, Poland and Switzerland, her management said.
Grande is tentatively scheduled to resume the tour on June 7 at the Bercy arena in Paris.
A
suicide bomber set off the blast moments after the singer left the
stage Monday at the 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena, one of the largest
indoor venues in Europe.
"We ask at this time
that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those
families affected by this cowardice and senseless act of violence," Grande's management said.
"Our way of life has once again been threatened but we will overcome this together," it said.
Grande, a 23-year-old former television star whose fan base is full of young girls, has called her latest album and tour "Dangerous Woman," although her bubblegum pop has rarely been controversial.
Her only direct comment since the attack has been a social media posting shortly afterwards in which she said she felt "broken" and "so so sorry."
The
Daily Mail newspaper published photos of a sullen Grande, wearing
sweatpants and carrying a backpack, getting off a private jet Tuesday in
her hometown of Boca Raton, Florida.
She was welcomed by her boyfriend, the rapper Mac Miller, before heading to her home, media reports said.
Representatives
declined comment on her whereabouts but publicly available flight data
showed a private jet arriving Tuesday in Boca Raton from Birmingham,
England after a brief stop in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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