Dionne Warwick was set to play the Soul Town Festival in London Saturday when she felt pain in her leg.
It was so bad that she had to undergo emergency surgery on Labor Day and cancel her upcoming appearance.
Warwick, 84, shared the news on Instagram Tuesday.
“Please know how disappointed I am not to be with you at the Soul Town Festival,” the music icon, who lives in South Orange, said in a statement.
“The last thing I expected was to have surgery the day I was to fly to London,” Warwick said. “Pain was unbearable and my doctor rushed me into surgery thank goodness, as it could’ve resulted in something far worse.”
Warwick did not share her diagnosis, but said she was in recovery.
“Hopefully we can do this festival again in the future, and I’ll be walking like a normal person,” she said. “Please keep me in prayer and I’ll see you soon. Until next time, Thanks for your understanding. Luv Ya All!!!! Dionne.”
In a separate post, the festival shared that Warwick’s management advised that “walking will be difficult following the surgery and she will not be able to fly until her doctors give her the all clear.”
At the Sept. 6 show in London, Warwick was to have performed on a lineup with Cameo, Lisa Stansfield, Shalamar and more.
Warwick also canceled a Labor Day appearance at the New York State Fair in Syracuse because of her surgery.
In October, the Grammy-winning singer of hits like “Don’t Make Me Over,” “Walk on By,” “That’s What Friends Are For” and more was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The same month, East Orange, Warwick’s hometown, renamed a street Dionne Warwick Way.
Before her induction into the rock hall, Warwick told NJ Advance Media that she has no plans to retire from touring and performing.
“When I feel that I have not been able to reach the bar that I have set for myself, that’s when I’ll say, ‘you know, it’s been wonderful. Thank you very much, and there I go,’” she said.
“When I feel that happens, where we have to give lyrics or I have to use a teleprompter or any of those crazy things that happen during the course of time with a lot of our singers ... (I don’t) need for me to do something that I know I’m not capable of doing.”
“I’m following a path that has been kind of designated already for me,” Warwick said. “God put me on a road here to walk a certain path and that’s what I’m doing. And whatever happens next happens. I don’t know what’s going to happen next. I wish I did, but I don’t.”