Kelly Clarkson kicked off her Las Vegas residency with an apology to her followers.
“Man, I’m so sorry if a few of y’all had [tickets to] final weekend’s reveals,” Clarkson, 43, mentioned throughout her Friday, July 11, live performance, per social media footage. “I’m so sorry. We will’t assist our our bodies typically, and that occurs, however thanks for displaying up. We’re so excited.”
In accordance with Clarkson, her newest Sin Metropolis manufacturing is her favourite tour she’s ever executed.
“I really like being within the studio, and that’s the place this whole concept got here from,” she mentioned of the intimate stage setup. “[I’ll] offer you just a little sneak peek of what we do, and there’s nothing like getting within the studio with a bunch of musicians and simply vibing with one another. You’re feeding off [everyone’s] totally different emotional state, and it’s simply actually cool.”
Clarkson introduced hours earlier than her scheduled July 4 efficiency that her newest Vegas residency can be postponed one other week.
“We’ve got been working 24/7 to make Studio Classes probably the most intimate and extraordinary expertise with and for my unbelievable fan,” she wrote in a press release. “I’m past grateful that you just at all times present up for me, and I’m devastated to need to postpone tonight and tomorrow’s opening at Caesars. The prep and rehearsals have taken a toll on my voice.”

Kelly Clarkson performs on Friday, July 11, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Denise Truscello/Getty Photographs for Dwell Nation Las Vegas
She continued, “I need the reveals to be good for y’all, and I want to guard myself from doing critical harm so I’m taking this weekend and subsequent week to relaxation up in order that we will ship what you all deserve. The present is really unbelievable.”
On the time, Clarkson praised her fellow “excellent” musicians within the rehearsal studio.
“I need us all to begin out sturdy,” she concluded earlier this month. “I can’t wait to be again subsequent weekend and present y’all what we’ve been engaged on.”
Clarkson kicked off her Kelly Clarkson: Studio Classes – The Las Vegas Residency on Friday. She’s going to carry out 17 extra instances, along with her residency ending on November 15.
Studio Classes is the previous American Idol champion’s second residency in Las Vegas. She final took the stage in 2023 to carry out hits from her Chemistry album.
“Having chemistry with somebody is an unbelievable and overwhelming feeling,” she instructed Vogue on the time of her post-divorce album. “It’s like you don’t have any alternative within the matter — you’re simply drawn to one another. This may be good or unhealthy. This album takes you down each path that chemistry may lead you down.”
Clarkson filed for divorce from her former music supervisor Brandon Blackstock in 2020. The pair, who share two children, finalized the proceedings in 2022.