Invited to the Canal+ set to participate in the En Aparté program this Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Roch Voisine spoke about the group A streptococcus that he was diagnosed with almost a year ago, which forced him to reschedule the tour that was celebrating his 35 years of career, initially planned for 2024.
A difficult-to-cure health problem. It was in 1989 that Roch Voisine recorded the song “Hélène,” which launched his career in French-speaking countries, 35 years ago. The 61-year-old artist is celebrating this anniversary, a year late, with a tour of Canada, France, Switzerland, and Belgium that began last February and will end this December.
Si le rendez-vous a été manqué par le sexagénaire en 2024, c’est parce qu’il a été touché par un problème de santé qui a failli lui coûter sa carrière. Il lui a été diagnostiqué d’un streptocoque A, dont il porte encore aujourd’hui les séquelles.
En décembre dernier, il expliquait dans les colonnes de Closer que le traitement par antibiotiques qu’il a suivi pendant un mois et demi n’avait “pas marché” et que l’infection s’était propagée jusqu’à ses oreilles. “Le tympan s’est percé, la douleur était vive, je n’entendais plus rien”, a-t-il déploré, expliquant ne pas avoir “récupéré [son audition] à 100%”.
“It’s a great loss”
Invited to the set of the show En Aparté broadcast on Canal+ this Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Roch Voisine spoke about the group A streptococcus which he “did not manage to get rid of” and focused on the complications that were subsequently diagnosed.
“I had to have surgery; we tried everything with antibiotics, but there was nothing we could do,” he lamented, before revealing that during the operation, medical professionals had “found a fissure in his skull,” just “a few weeks before the start of the tour” initially planned for 2024, which his team “had to postpone for almost a year.” But the singer considered himself “lucky” in his interview with Nathalie Levy because “the operation went well.”
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