Singer Duffy to return for first live concert in more than 15 years

Warning: This communicative contains distressing content, including details of intersexual assault, kidnapping and suicidal thoughts

Singer Duffy has announced her archetypal performance successful much than 15 years, aft she revealed that a intersexual battle and kidnapping had led her to measurement distant from nationalist life.

The Welsh vocalist said connected societal media that she would big a "secret intimate gig" and execute caller songs for fans connected 5 July successful London.

Duffy roseate to fame successful 2008 with her debut medium Rockferry, earning 3 BRIT Awards, a Grammy Award and an Ivor Novello Award.

Aimée Anne Duffy grew up betwixt Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire earlier becoming an overnight sensation with deed azygous Mercy and Rockferry, which became the UK's champion selling medium of 2008.

But aft the merchandise of her 2nd medium and the announcement of a third, Duffy disappeared, leaving fans and the euphony manufacture wondering why.

Almost a decennary aboriginal successful 2020, Duffy revealed successful an Instagram station that she had been attacked and aboriginal published a idiosyncratic effort connected her website, describing however she was drugged and taken to a overseas state wherever she was raped.

She explained that the ordeal lone ended erstwhile she managed to flight her perpetrator, who has not been identified.

The vocalist said "utterly no-one" knew astir the battle and captivity, which she said had near her suicidal.

On Friday, Duffy told fans via a communicative connected her Instagram relationship that she would beryllium hosting a balloted gig.

"I'm doing a concealed intimate gig successful London connected the 5th July, adjacent month, and I would emotion thing much than for immoderate of you to attend," she wrote.

"It's lone tiny capableness truthful we tin lone prime a few, but truly looking guardant to it, I volition sing immoderate caller songs."

Last month, besides shared a black-and-white representation from a signaling workplace connected Instagram, writing: "If lone I could find the close words to explicate however overmuch I've missed you all. Working connected coming backmost to you."

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