Malik – who was due to attend an album playback session – hasn’t shared any further details about his health issues.
He expressed gratitude to fans and hospital staff via Instagram, thanking them for their support. Photo / Instagram
The singer released his latest album on Friday and he previously opened up about his creative process, explaining that his record features “South Asian influences”.
He told ELLE India magazine: “I got into the studio, booked in for 14 days … the process was trying to create this vision I had in my mind that didn’t exist anywhere else.
“There was no point of reference I could pull from or say, ‘I want it to be like this’. Even though I was drawing from Konnakol in terms of the technique and bringing in South Asian influences, it was still something I’m proposing to a Western market, and I wanted it to still be R’n’B but have that flavour.
“I just had to freestyle a bit on the mic and see what came out naturally and build from there. We started with a click, didn’t even have a drum, which gave us the starting point, and built the track around the ad-libs and Konnakol influences, and then wrote over the track in English.”