Rod Stewart Cancels San Diego Concert Due to Illness, Attends World Cup Match with Sons Next Day

Rod Stewart canceled his June 13 concert at the North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in San Diego 40 minutes before he was scheduled to perform, nypost.com reported. Organizers initially attributed the cancellation to a sinus infection. Doctors later diagnosed the singer with an acute upper respiratory infection that caused laryngitis.

Stewart, 81, flew on a private jet with sons Aidan and Alastair from San Diego to Boston the following day to attend a FIFA World Cup match between Scotland and Haiti. ” Photographs showed him in the stands wearing Scottish colors. In interviews with TalkSPORT, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, Stewart said he had promised his sons since birth that they would attend a World Cup together.

“I really shouldn’t have gone to the Haiti game. You know, I had to cancel a show the night before because I just had no voice left,” he stated. “But the truth is, Jim, I wasn’t going to let my two sons down...

And it wasn’t a good look, I admit, but I’m going to have to just take the stick. ” A representative for Stewart said the singer had arrived at the San Diego venue but was unable to speak properly and communicated by text because he had lost his voice.