Jon Bon Jovi, the iconic frontman of Bon Jovi, says he’s unsure if he’ll tour again after undergoing vocal cord surgery in 2022.
Billboard reports the 61-year-old rock singer told a Boston radio station that he’s still recovering from the procedure. Bon Jovi is set to release its 16th album, “Forever,” this summer, but Jon Bon Jovi said they may not be able to do concerts in support of the new music.
“I don’t know about a tour,” he told Mix 104.1 Boston. “It is my desire to do a tour next year, but I’m just still recovering from a major surgery.”
According to People magazine, the “Livin’ on a Prayer” vocalist got surgery in 2022 after learning one of his vocal cords was “atrophying.”
“Although I’m well on the road to recovery and was able to take my time and do a song a day when I made the record, my need, want, desire is to be able to do two-and-a-half hours a night four nights a week for months on end,” Bon Jovi told Mix 104.1 (WWBX-FM). “And so I’m working towards that goal.”
The New Jersey rock band is set to release its new album on June 7, featuring the lead single “Legendary,” released last week. It will be their first new album since 2020, when their last tour was canceled due to the Covid pandemic.
Bon Jovi didn’t have any Upstate New York concerts scheduled in 2020, and it’s unclear what cities they may have had planned in 2024-2025 if Jon Bon Jovi was healthier. (Buffalo seems unlikely.) The group, known for hits like “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Wanted Dead or Alive” and “Bad Medicine,” previously performed in Syracuse at the Carrier Dome in 1989 and the New York State Fair in 1995. A 2013 concert at the NYS Fair was scuttled and Bon Jovi instead performed at a fundraiser for then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that summer.
But that doesn’t mean the singer, whose son Jake Bongiovi is a Syracuse University alumnus, cannot perform altogether. Billboard reports he performed the Grammy-winning “Who…
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