The American rock band 3 Doors Down announced the cancellation of the band’s summer tour due to a stage-four kidney cancer diagnosis in frontman and founding member Brad Arnold.
In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, Arnold, 46, started by telling fans, “I’ve got some not so good news for you today.”
The singer shared that after being sick and hospitalized a few weeks ago, he recently received the news that he has clear cell renal cell carcinoma that has spread to his lungs and metastasized.
“That’s stage four and that’s not real good,” Arnold said, adding that he’s leaning on his faith and that he “has no fear” about the diagnosis.
The band’s tour was set to kick off May 15 in Daytona Beach before making its way across the country and co-headlining certain dates with the Creed, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Arnold, bassist Todd Harrell and lead guitar and backup singer Matt Roberts founded the band some 30 years ago in an incorporated community in Mississippi. Chris Henderson joined the trio, playing rhythm guitar and singing backup vocals, a few years later.
In 2000, the band dropped the album “The Better Life” with the song “Kryptonite,” a hit single that’s been streamed on Spotify more than a billion times, according to The Times.
Later album releases included “Away from the Sun” and “Seventeen Days.”
The band has evolved since its founding, with Arnold and Henderson remaining the oldest members of the group. In Aug. 2016, Roberts, the founding guitarist, died from an overdose of prescription pills at a hotel in West Bend, Wisconsin, at the age of 38.
“Thank you for all the memories so far. Now, I believe “ITS NOT MY TIME” is really my song,” Arnold wrote in his post to X, referring to the band’s 2008 hit song. “This’ll be a battle so we need our prayer warriors! Thank y’all for being the best fans in the world. We love y’all!”
