Patty Cialfa revealed that she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of bone marrow cancer, in 2018, which forced her to cut back on her playing time. The E Street Band with her husband Bruce Springsteen. “Away games have become a challenge for me,” Scialfa said in a new documentary Travel diary. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Bandwhich premiered on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I just have to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go.”
Scialfa first joined the E Street Band in 1984 and has toured with the band frequently, but he has been noticeably absent from nearly every band. band shows in 2023 and 2024. She married Springsteen in 1991 and two years later released the first of her three solo albums to date, Rumble Doll:— Later in 2003 23rd Street Cradle and in 2007 Play as it puts it. A diagnosis of multiple myeloma has occurred Springsteen on Broadway residency, during which he will guest on two songs.
Scialfa said last year Asbury Park Press that he was spending less time on stage to work on a new solo album and spend more time with his new granddaughter. In fact, his reduced presence in the E Street Band is intended to reduce health risks. “Once in a while I come to a show or two and I get to sing a few songs on stage and it’s nice,” he says in the documentary. “It’s the new normal for me right now, and I’m fine with that.”
Travel diary coming to Hulu and Disney+ on October 25th.
