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\n\tDaniel Seavey has been forced to postpone more tour dates, axing his performances in Australia and New Zealand as he continues to recover from ongoing vocal issues.<\/p>\n
\n\tSeavey, whose global tour in support of debut album Second Wind<\/em><\/a> launched in March, alerted fans to his troubles last month when he postponed the final six dates of his European run.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMy doctors made it clear that my vocal cords are completely unusable right now, and that any attempt at forcing them to work will result in permanent and irreversible damage,\u201d he told fans on social media<\/a> on May 13.<\/p>\n \n\tHowever, despite \u201ctaking the next few weeks to get to the bottom of these issues and resolve them\u201d ahead of his shows in Australia and New Zealand, Seavey\u2019s vocal issues have persisted, necessitating the postponement of these dates as well.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cHey guys I got some pretty tough news yesterday,\u201d Seavey wrote<\/a> on social media over the weekend. \u201cMy doctor has ordered me to go on another 3 weeks of vocal rest to ensure that this problem completely resolves and never returns, which means I have to push back my shows in Australia a couple weeks.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI am so beyond devastated by the outcome of all of this and am so terribly sorry to everyone I am letting down.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSeavey\u2019s Australian trek was scheduled to begin in Perth on Saturday (June 7), before visiting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, and then venturing over to New Zealand for a single date in Auckland.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tNew dates have already been announced, with Seavey set to instead visit Auckland on Aug. 2, and Australian dates to occur in the following days. His European dates are currently in the works, with Seavey telling fans \u201cMy team and I are working as fast as we can to get those to you.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSeavey rose to fame in 2015 after placing in the top nine of the 14th season of American Idol. He later served as a member of Why Don\u2019t We, whose two studio albums both charted in the top ten of the Billboard 200.\u00a0<\/p>\n