Jon Bon Jovi on Getting His Voice Back and Extending the Forever Tour

Jon Bon Jovi told Michael Strahan on Good Morning America this week that he's healthy, he's ready and the Forever Tour is getting bigger.

The comeback nobody was sure about

In 2022 he lost his voice to a vocal injury and had medialization surgery to save it. Then came two years of training to get it back. For a singer whose whole catalog is built on big choruses, that was not a small question.

The answer came in July, when the Forever Tour opened at Madison Square Garden. It was his first show since the injury. He told Strahan he didn't make special changes to his voice before the tour and walked out "just so ready, physically, mentally and psychologically." He called being back on stage a "second chance to experience everything for the first time."

More stadiums

The band has added stadium dates in Australia, the United Kingdom and North America. The extension kicks off in March at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne. If you sang "Livin' on a Prayer" into a hairbrush in 1986, you may get one more shot to sing it in a stadium.

Family first

He also talked about family. His mother, Carol Bongiovi, died in 2024. His father had a stroke and is "doing well" in his recovery. And he's a grandfather for the third time: his son Jake and daughter-in-law Millie Bobby Brown adopted a baby boy in September. The grandkids call him "Papa Jon."

His bottom line: "Health is the only thing that matters." Hard to argue with a guy who almost lost the thing that made him famous and fought his way back.