Brian Cadd’s family has issued a statement for his friends and fans, revealing that the Australian music icon recently suffered a haemorrhagic stroke.

The health scare happened at the end of last week while Cadd was at home on the Gold Coast. His family have assured fans that he received medical attention quickly, and is currently receiving care at the Gold Coast University Hospital.

Cadd’s condition is stable, and his medical team is monitoring his progress. In a small bit of good news, Cadd is showing “early, encouraging signs” of recovery.

Cadd’s family will update the public as his condition improves, but during this critical time, they ask for privacy. You can read the full statement below.

At the end of last week, our dear Brian suffered a haemorrhagic stroke whilst at home on the Gold Coast.

Fortunately, he received medical attention quickly and he is currently under the care of the Gold Coast University Hospital. He is stable and his medical team is monitoring his progress and while it will likely be a long road ahead, he is showing early, encouraging signs.

We’d like to thank the wonderful team looking after him at the Hospital and for everyone’s well wishes.

We will keep everyone updated as his condition improves but we kindly request privacy at this critical time.

The Cadd Family

The Music hopes Brian Cadd makes a smooth, full recovery.

Last year, Brian Cadd embraced country music on his album Dream Train. While he has written songs with Americana and country flavours for much of his career, his latest album fully charged into the genre from start to finish, from instrumentation to the heartbreak ballads.

“Five years ago, I never would have done this, thinking of the way I am perceived as coming from the rock’n’roll world,” Cadd said in an interview with The Music. “Then I thought, I’m 77 years old; I can do whatever I want to do. It was a magical experience.

“I felt I had been given this freedom. Let’s have more dobro [and] more pedal steel. They even sneaked some banjo into the mix, and that is something I never would have done before.”

As of this January, the album spent over 27 weeks on the ARIA Australian Country music chart.