Patti Smith blames ‘post-migraine dizziness’ for collapsing onstage in Brazil: ‘Absolutely fine’

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the Associated Press, per local media.“She clearly felt dizzy. She started moving backward and fell in a way — I think she tried to support herself on the microphone or the music stand.

And everything fell on top of her. It was a bizarre scene,” Micheline Alves, a journalist sitting in one of the front rows, shared with the outlet in a phone interview.Alves added that a doctor, who was in the audience, checked on Smith.“After a few minutes, we saw that she wasn’t unconscious.

She got up on her own,” the journalist explained, adding she was put in a wheelchair and disappeared backstage.She later returned to the stage in a wheelchair and apologized to the audience. “Unfortunately, I got sick, and the doctor said I can’t finish.

So we will have to figure something out. And I feel very badly,” Smith said, to which the audience cheered her on.Smith then sang “Wing” and “Because the Night” a cappella.While Alves said it was “very beautiful,” the journalist added about Smith that “she was very sad, very vulnerable about not being able to do the show.”Videos quickly emerged online of Smith’s incident, including her being wheeled offstage and returning in the wheelchair.Smith is collaborating with the Berlin-based Soundwalk Collective for the “Correspondences” project, “a creative enterprise with Simone Merli to collect sound from around the world and develop sonic projects in artistic collaborations,” according to W magazine.The project is set to run until Feb.