{"id":73868,"date":"2026-09-29T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/lady-a-singer-charles-kelley-says-he-has-blood-cancer\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:17:38","slug":"lady-a-singer-charles-kelley-says-he-has-blood-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/lady-a-singer-charles-kelley-says-he-has-blood-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady A Singer Charles Kelley Says He Has Blood Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna get through it,&#8221; said the vocalist, who is battling a rare blood cancer<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lady-a\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lady-a\" data-tag=\"lady-a\">Lady A<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/charles-kelley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charles-kelley\" data-tag=\"charles-kelley\">Charles Kelley<\/a> says he has been diagnosed with blood cancer. The singer shared the news via an Instagram post on the page of his wife, Cassie Kelley, explaining that he\u2019d seen a doctor for rib fractures, which prompted a series of blood tests that discovered a rare cancer called multiple myeloma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m young, I feel healthy and the treatments, I will say, have just come so far even in the past five years, even life expectancy far exceeds what it used to be,\u201d Kelley said, who added he also has a friend navigating the same diagnosis. \u201cJust getting this off your chest is so freeing and takes the power away from it a little bit,\u201d he continued, discussing how impactful it has been for him to also share his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/lady-a-postpone-2022-tour-charles-kelley-sobriety-1392689\/\">sobriety journey<\/a> openly with fans. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKelley has been working on multiple music projects of late: a new album with Lady A, a set of Christmas shows, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/country-music-goes-yacht-rock-keith-urban-flow-state-1235577104\/\">yacht rock<\/a> radio show on SiriusXM called \u201cY\u2019all Aboard.\u201d In the video, Kelley said he still plans to continue with the projects as he heads through the first six months of treatment. \u201cI\u2019ll have tough days, but I want to keep working,\u201d he said. \u201cI need to be happy and doing what I love to do, and spending and soaking up as much time with my family as well. I\u2019m hopeful, I really am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLady A \u2014 the Grammy-winning trio of Kelley, Hillary Scott, and Dave Haywood \u2014\u00a0are set to launch their This Winter\u2019s Night Tour in December.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/lady-a-charles-kelley-cancer-diagnosis-1235633735\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna get through it,&#8221; said the vocalist, who is battling a rare blood cancer Lady A\u2019s Charles Kelley says he has been diagnosed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}