The 64-year-old singer was hospitalized on Sunday.

Country star Clint Black cancels show because of medical emergency

The 64-year-old singer was hospitalized on Sunday.

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- Clint Black will miss a show scheduled for July 3.

- His team has announced that the country music star was recently hospitalized with infected tonsils.

- The Grammy winner is scheduled to perform next on July 9.

Country music star Clint Black is recovering from an illness, but he's not well enough to perform Friday at a concert scheduled for Choctaw, Miss.

"Clint Black's performance at the Pearl River Resort Casino, scheduled for Friday, July 3, 2026, has been canceled due to a medical emergency," a statement that his team posted to social media read. "Clint was admitted to the hospital on Sunday with infected tonsils requiring emergency intravenous antibiotic treatment."

Black's team explained that "Clint is on the mend and will make a full recovery and is expected to be discharged from the hospital later this week. Clint and his management team sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this cancellation may cause."

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They added, "All tickets will be fully refunded from the original point of purchase."

** has reached out to Black's rep for comment.

The Grammy winner, 64, is best known for late '80s and '90s hits such as "Where Are You Now?," "A Good Run of Bad Luck," "Killin' Time," and "A Better Man."

His official website lists concerts scheduled up to February, most for his current Back on the Blacktop Tour, although several are for other events.

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The artist is scheduled to stop next in Minden, Nev., on July 9, with future events bringing him to Oklahoma City, Dallas, Orlando, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C.

Black has described his life as "not all champagne and roses" and "a regular life, sometimes lived in the spotlight."

He told PEOPLE in May while promoting his new memoir, *Killin' Time: My Life and Music*, that his career success had required serious perseverance.

Clint Black in 2025.

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"I was just a scrappy little kid, trying not to drown, finding my way into the nightclubs and then the record business," he said. "[I was] pushing through hurdle after hurdle, injury after injury, surgery after surgery, and all those things that happen in every life and continuing to strive for excellence."

The singer has been married to Lisa Hartman Black since 1991, and they share an adult daughter, Lily.

They coupled up after meeting backstage following his show on New Year's Eve in 1990.

"It was slow motion, like you see in the movies," she told the magazine in October 2021. "There was something there."

Clint said he "knew I was looking at somebody amazing."

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