{"id":421903,"date":"2026-08-31T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421903\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:34:09","slug":"jill-scott-houston-show-postponed-due-to-covid-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421903\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Scott Houston show postponed due to COVID diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott, 53, was expected to perform Sunday and Monday at Smart Financial Centre in Sugar Land. The artist announced in March that she was adding a second show after the first night sold out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very sorry to report that what doctors perceived to be a minor virus has turned into\u00a0Covid 19,&#8221; Scott said in an Instagram post. &#8220;While I feel OK, I\u2019m not able to go out without a mask.\u00a0For everyone\u2019s safety and wellness, I have to reschedule my last four shows on the US TOUR as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dates in Houston were moved to Sept. 11 and 12. Dallas dates were rescheduled to Sept. 14 and 15.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, 53, has won eight awards \u2014 including multiple\u00a0Grammys and NAACP Image Awards \u2014 and received numerous nominations for her work as an artist and actor. Scott released her sixth studio album, &#8220;To Whom This May Concern,&#8221; on Feb. 13.\u00a0In an interview cited by NPR, Scott described &#8220;To Whom This May Concern&#8221; as a \u201cpersonal revolution\u201d aimed at encouraging listeners toward self-actualization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott, 53, was expected to perform Sunday and Monday at Smart Financial Centre in Sugar Land. The artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-421903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}