EMI label Parlophone have denied media reports circulating yesterday that Jamelia was pulling out of the Birmingham edition of the Party in the Park charity concert because she had received death threats.
Reports quoted friends of the singer as saying Jamelia had received threatening phone calls, perhaps from a Birmingham gang who were linked to the stabbing of her brother nearly a decade ago. Said reports suggested local police were taking the threates seriously and that as a result the singer had been forced to pull out of the show.
However a spokesman for Parlophone told reporters yesterday that Jamelia had never, in fact, been confirmed for Party in the Park Birmingham and that it was European tour commitments that made it impossible for her to perform at the event. The label added it has no idea how or why the death threat stories had circulated.