Katseye's Sophia Laforteza Announces Hiatus Before Headlining Rose Bowl Music Festival

Just a time earlier nan Head successful nan Clouds Music & Arts Festival takes complete nan Rose Bowl successful Pasadena, a personnel of nan headlining popular group Katseye has announced she is taking a hiatus from performing.

Sophia Laforteza announced connected Instagram connected Friday that she’ll beryllium stepping distant to return attraction of her intelligence health.

“It genuinely breaks my bosom to person to miss retired connected a lot,” she wrote successful an Instagram story. “You cognize really overmuch I emotion being connected stage, performing, and sharing these moments pinch you. Making this determination wasn’t easy, but I’m learning that wellness has to travel first. I’m realizing that if I don’t return attraction of my mind and assemblage now, I won’t beryllium capable to support doing what I emotion nan astir for truthful long.”

Laforteza thanked her fans for being “patient, understanding, and ever showing maine truthful overmuch love,” and said she’d beryllium joining Katseye fans, aka “eyekons,” successful cheering connected nan group successful nan meantime.

“I committedness I’m going to activity arsenic difficult arsenic I tin to get done this, heal properly, and travel backmost stronger,” she wrote.

A station connected nan group’s official Instagram relationship said Laforteza “will beryllium temporarily incapable to participate successful upcoming promotional activities.”

“We understand really overmuch EYEKONS were looking guardant to seeing Sophia connected stage, but it is imperative that her intelligence wellness and wellness are prioritized,” nan station stated.

According to nan statement, nan popular prima has been moving pinch aesculapian professionals who advised that she return “dedicated clip for extended remainder and ongoing attraction to guarantee a afloat recovery.”

While Laforteza is eager to get backmost to activity pinch her chap Katseye members, nan station said her “health, safety, and semipermanent well-being” will ever beryllium apical priority.

Laforteza’s advancement will beryllium monitored and she’ll beryllium reassessed successful September — conscionable arsenic nan group is slated to footwear disconnected their world tour. Fans tin expect an update astir that time, according to nan post.

Earlier this year, Katseye personnel Manon Bannerman besides deed region connected performing pinch nan popular group, meaning Saturday’s headlining capacity successful Pasadena will characteristic 4 of nan group’s original six members. Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel and Yoonchae Jeung are still group to return nan stage.

Laforteza’s announcement followers akin decisions from actor-musician Ariana Grande, who told fans earlier this week that she would beryllium stepping distant from nan nationalist eye and that “human beings tin request a break sometimes.”

Country euphony prima Jelly Roll besides announced a hiatus this month, saying he needed “to heal” pursuing news that he finalized his divorcement from Bunnie XO aft astir 10 years of marriage.