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The singer, who had not been on stage since 2017, was injured last week, according to his representative.
His highly anticipated Sunday performance in the California desert started an hour late and was widely criticized by the public and the music press.
“After injuring his leg at the festival site in the week leading up to the first weekend…Frank Ocean was unable to perform the scheduled concert, but he still intended to, and within 72 hours, the concert was rearranged out of necessity,” Frank Ocean’s agent told AFP.
The singer suffers “from two broken bones and a sprained left leg”, he said, and preferred to cancel his next concert scheduled for Sunday for the closing night of Coachella, “on the advice of a doctor “.
During the first weekend of the festival, Frank Ocean turned his back on the crowd to perform his title Novacane, and took extended breaks between certain songs. The scenography, redesigned at the last moment, also caused confusion among the spectators.
Fans were also disappointed with the concert’s abrupt ending. After his enormous delay, the singer invoked the “curfew” imposed by the festival on Sunday to end his show with a few terse words.
American magazine Variety called the concert “messy, disjointed and almost disastrous”. According to the headline, the event “will likely go down as one of the most controversial in Coachella history.”
“It was chaotic. There is a certain beauty in chaos,” Frank Ocean said in a statement from his agent Wednesday. “Not what I intended to show, but I enjoyed being there and will see you again soon.” »
According to Variety, Blink-182 could replace the headlining singer for the closing of Coachella on Sunday.
The pop-punk band surprised their fans last weekend, returning to the stage with their original lineup for the first time in nearly a decade. Announced at the last moment, this performance was not initially planned in the festival program.
Asked by AFP, the Coachella organization did not respond immediately.
