Adele postpones tour dates due to laryngitis

(CBS/AP) - British singer Adele has been forced to postpone five scheduled tour dates on her North America tour after contracting laryngitis.

The 23-year-old Grammy winner was diagnosed last Thursday in Minneapolis, where doctors ordered immediate rest. Her show was canceled and rescheduled for June 22.

She performed in Denver on Saturday, but her show in Salt Lake City on Sunday was canceled at the last minute "when her illness worsened," Columbia Records said in a statement Monday.

Performance in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, British Columbia, were also postponed and will be rescheduled.

Her tour will resume June 4 in San Francisco.

Adele, whose new album, "21," has dominatedthe charts in the U.S., wrote on her website last Thursday, "I hate to cancel especially at such short notice. I am truly devastated...Please forgive me!"

Adele also experienced voice problems when she performed May 10 on "Dancing with the Stars."

She sang her hit "Rolling in the Deep," but passed on a planned rendition of the Aretha Franklin/Carole King hit, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."

"I was going to be covering 'Natural Woman,' but my voice is going a bit," shse told host Tom Bergeron. "It's knackered and I need to save it."