Katharine McPheeis cutting her performances in Asia short.
TheSmash!alum, 39,announced on her InstagramFriday that she would miss the final two shows of the David Foster & Friends Asia Tour 2023 — where she has been performing as a special guest alongside husbandDavid Foster— in order to return home to deal with a family “tragedy.”
“It is with a heavy heart that I announce that I have to miss our final two shows of our Asia run,” she wrote in a note addressed to Jakarta fans.
“David and I have had a horrible tragedy in our family and at least one of us needs to get back home to our family,” she continued, though she didn’t give specific details about what had occurred.
Katharine McPhee’s note to Jakarta fans on Instagram.Katharine Foster/Instagram
Katharine Foster/Instagram
McPhee concluded the statement saying,“Please know how sorry I am and how much I wish to return someday and perform for you all.”
Foster, 73, will continue performing on the final two concerts of the Asia tour, which are scheduled in Jakarta’s Sentul International Convention Centre on Friday, Aug. 11 and Saturday, Aug. 12, according to details listed onhis websiteas of Friday morning.
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PEOPLE has reached out to Katharine and David Foster’s representatives for further comment.
Foster and McPhee share 2-year-old sonRennie David, though it is unclear if the couple took their child with them on tour. In October, the pairraved about their son’s newfound music abilitiesto PEOPLE.
“We think [he’ll be musical], but we don’t know,” Foster says. “Kids, strangely, will do something for a while and then it’ll amaze you and then they just drop it and they don’t do it anymore. So we don’t know if the drumming thing is here to stay — I’d rather he have a tennis racket in his hand than a drumstick to tell you the truth. But anyway, if he ends up being a drummer, that would be great too. He loves watching our drummer, JR Robinson.”
David Foster and Katharine McPhee attend the 2023 Gateway Celebrity Fight Night at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa on April 01, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona.Phillip Faraone/Getty Images
Phillip Faraone/Getty Images
The “Over It” singer previously shared two sweet videos on her Instagram Story of Rennieplaying with different instruments around the housein August last year. First, little Rennie was seen behind a piano, banging on different keys, then tapping away on an electronic drum pad.
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“It makes sense that he’d be musical,” McPheetoldEntertainment Tonight. “He’s certainly obsessed with the drums! Or imaginary drums, for that matter.”
However, Foster added that their son is too “young” for them to know if he’d follow in their footsteps in the music industry.
“When you look at somebody like [athletes] Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, their kids are very talented… but they’re not tennis players, so we don’t know,” he said.
source: people.com
