(CNN)Rock icon Stevie Nicks has canceled a drawstring of upcoming US shows owed to interest implicit the rising fig of Covid-19 cases.
The erstwhile Fleetwood Mac vocalist posted a abbreviated statement connected Twitter connected Monday announcing her decision.
"These are challenging times with challenging decisions that person to beryllium made. I privation everyone to beryllium harmless and steadfast and the rising Covid cases should beryllium of interest to each of us," she wrote.
"While I'm vaccinated, astatine my age, I americium inactive being highly cautious and for that crushed person decided to skip the 5 performances I had planned for 2021."
Nicks, who is 73, had been scheduled to play shows successful Colorado, California, Texas and Louisiana starting September 3.
"Because singing and performing person been my full life, my superior extremity is to support steadfast truthful I tin proceed singing for the adjacent decennary oregon longer," her connection continued.
"I'm devastated and I cognize the fans are disappointed, but we volition look towards a brighter 2022."
In August 2020, she called connected fans to deterioration a disguise and instrumentality Covid-19 seriously, arsenic good arsenic revealing her worries implicit the semipermanent effects of the virus.
"If I get it, I volition astir apt ne'er sing again," she wrote successful a Facebook post, adding: "Put maine connected a ventilator and I volition beryllium hoarse for the remainder of my life."
"This microorganism tin termination you. It tin termination me," she wrote. "Kill my chances of pulling connected those boots and hitting the road."