Alesso shares secret health battle which has led to cancelled gigs as he takes break

Swedish DJ Alesso, who has won awards since bursting onto the euphony country successful 2010, shocked fans erstwhile helium called disconnected a bid of performances successful December owed to wellness concerns

Swedish DJ Alesso has opened up astir his "really hard time" dealing with a chronic information which led to the cancellation of immoderate gigs successful December.

The grounds producer, 33, is surviving with terrible tinnitus, a information often described arsenic a "ringing successful the ears" - a changeless sound caused from wrong the body. There is nary speedy hole for the condition, which one Brit precocious told the Mirror causes dins "as large arsenic an aeroplane".

Alesso, who has worked with galore artists, including Calvin Harris, Katy Perry and Liam Payne, precocious called disconnected a bid of performances for the archetypal clip successful 14 years. He cited wellness concerns astatine the clip and present has shed much airy connected what precisely helium has faced successful the past mates of months.

The DJ, whose mentation of the Chainsmokers and British stone set Coldplay's Something Just Like This won the Best Remix gong astatine the International Dance Music Awards 2018, said: "Two months ago, I woke up with the loudest ringing successful my ears. Talking astir 10 retired of 10. I was successful implicit shock. It was not aft a show. I conscionable woke up, and it was truthful intense."

Alesso, calved successful Stockholm, Sweden, went connected to accidental however helium had suffered with it earlier but not connected this level. He added: "I cognize it's ace communal successful the euphony industry, but yeah, I had a really, truly hard clip dealing with this. I've been doing this for 14 years now, and I've ne'er taken a break. So I conscionable took this arsenic a motion to dilatory down, to prioritize my wellness and beryllium much careful."

The grounds shaper went connected to accidental that helium would inactive beryllium performing, but had made the determination to instrumentality a measurement back. His celebrated pals rushed to sent their enactment – chap DJ Martin Garrix posted a bid of emotion hearts, portion Brody Jenner commented: “Sorry to perceive astir this my man. Take attraction of yourself." Last year, Alesso performed successful Belgium, Greece, France, Iceland, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

A Brit trapped successful a Long Covid conflict past twelvemonth told The Mirror his tinnitus - successful his lawsuit associated with the coronavirus - often caused a "electrical static crackle" sound successful his head. Shaney Wright, from Stratford, eastbound London, candidly told us: "The happening that is truthful debilitating astir it is that you cannot flight it. You can't really get distant from it and it's distracting. It makes it hard to bash anything, to adjacent get up and spell to enactment and so, erstwhile you've got a large wailing successful your head."