Breaking news: French singer Barbara Weldens, 35, dies on stage at festival

An up-and-coming French singer has collapsed and
died on stage in the middle of a live performance
during a festival.
Barbara Weldens, 35, was singing in a church in the
village of Gourdon, in the Lot region of southwest
France, when she collapsed on Wednesday night.
The singer, who was one of the acts performing in
the Leo Ferre festival, is reported to have suffered a
cardiac arrest.
Some local media has suggested she may have been
electrocuted, although this has not been confirmed.
Firemen who attended the scene were unable to
resuscitate the singer.
A formal investigation has now been launched into
the cause of her death.
Weldens, who grew up in a circus, was an
accomplished acrobat, juggler and trapeze artist,
performing with her parents before discovering her
love of music as a teenager.
A talented musician, she also played the piano and
acoustic guitar.
In 2016, she won first prize in the the Jacques Brel
Young Talent Competition, and released her first
studio album - with the tongue-in-cheek title Le Grand
H De L'homme, which roughly translates as Man with
a capital M - in February this year.
She was half way though a tour of France and
Belgium, which she was due to finish at the end of
October.

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