No R Kelly for Sumfest

Replacement act being sought

Jamaica Observer

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | 1:39 PM

POPULAR R&B singer R Kelly, will not be performing on Friday, at this year's Reggae Sumfest — an annual music festival held in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

News broke earlier today that the International Night 1 headline act had undergone emergency surgery to drain an abscess from his tonsil. His publicist Allan Mayer said that the singer will be 'laid up indefinitely' at Chicago's North-western Memorial Hospital.

Publicists for Summerfest Productions, Headline Entertainment, told the Observer today that a replacement act is being sought to fill the breach left by Kelly's absence and said a release would be issued this afternoon.

Related story:

R Kelly has emergency surgery on tonsil

Other Stories

Da'ville arrested for assault

Droop Lion roars out against child abuse

Obama to laud Carole King

Band SOJA marches on

Mavado creates magic with Jadakiss

Tarrus tours Europe in June

Styleweek 2013 starts at Fiction

Do Go See May 24

We Are Massiv shoots fashion film