Ashanti has COVID her Verzuz battle with Keyshia Cole is rescheduled

Actress and Grammy-successful hit-maker Ashanti, a Glen Cove indigenous, has announced that she has contracted the coronavirus, forcing the postponement of that night’s scheduled on the web musical fight in between herself and Keyshia Cole.

“Hey y’all I can not feel I’m saying this but I tested favourable for COVID-19,” the multiplatinum R&B singer, 40, posted on Instagram on Saturday. “I am alright and not in any soreness.” Referencing the virtual-live performance series by promoter NTWRK, she certain, “I’m really down to do the Verzuz from my house… we are seeking to figure it all out!!!”

Singer Tamar Braxton and actress Holly Robinson Peete posted supportive remarks.

Soon afterward, nonetheless, a information on the live performance series’ Instagram account claimed the demonstrate has been rescheduled for Jan. 9: “However, we have to postpone tonight’s @Ashanti vs @KeyshiaCole #VERZUZ. Ashanti tested optimistic for COVID-19 beforehand, and we can’t put anybody at risk in the system. Initially time this has struck us so shut to showtime. We apologize to our unbelievable viewers!”

Just after wishing Ashanti restoration, the information advised audience: “Don a mask, stay within, and get COVID-19 severely. It’s really affecting our local community.”

Ashanti explained in an Instagram online video posted afterward she nonetheless wished the display to go on that night time. “I am positive everybody is conscious and saw my write-up and it is really incredibly, quite outrageous,” she stated. “Under no circumstances in a million decades did I feel I would get COVID. I am super bummed. I’m essentially, I’m however completely ready to do it tonight, however.”

Coughing twice, she claimed she and the pc organization Apple experienced “been on the phone given that, like, late very last night, early this early morning, seeking to figure out how to do it … but we will not assume that the specialized part of factors is likely to be perfect.”

In the information posted alongside the video, she recognized that the exhibit was formally postponed. “We all go by way of classes in daily life… and ideally this serves as a lesson that this pandemic is pretty real…,” Ashanti wrote. “[T]hank you men so a lot for all of your adore and prayers…Thank you to everybody supporting the verzuz… a great deal really like to @keyshiacole and we will see y’all on January 9th!!! 2021 Females Empowerment.”

R&B singer Cole, 39, has not commented publicly.

For the duration of the coronavirus pandemic’s very first wave in April, Ashanti — born Ashanti Douglas, she was a Glen Cove Superior University observe-staff standout — donated 30,000 N95 confront masks to Northwell Health’s Glen Cove Hospital, the place she was born, as perfectly as breakfasts for the midnight-to-8 a.m. wellbeing crew and for the morning change.

“It would make my working day to be capable to say I was born in this healthcare facility, and I will usually rep Prolonged Island men and women who are likely by means of this kind of terrible moments,” she explained to Newsday at the time. “Truthfully, I have been hunting at the numbers of fatalities and listening to the tales about the entrance-liners, and becoming from Very long Island, perfectly, sometimes it appears to be folks neglect about us.”