Shania Twain shares a very personal struggle ahead of her new tour.
Before kicking off her last tour, Shania Twain bravely revealed her past struggle with her voice during an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“I really believed that I would never sing again. I was convinced, because for a long time I just couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t my vocal cords, which was very frustrating—if it was a straight ahead problem I could just have an operation for, then I would have done it and dealt with it and got back to singing. But it was so much more mysterious than that. It’s been a giant, long-term issue. It was more like an athlete going into rehab for an injury. It was a slow, painful process—it was like having to learn to walk all over again after an accident. I had to learn how to use my voice again. It was all there, but I had to learn how to use the tools all over again from scratch, and it was very frustrating,” reflected the Canadian songstress.
Twain’s mysterious affliction has altered the way she now treats her voice and prepares for performances.
“There are parts of my voice that were never there or I never knew I had. I never discovered them because I was never forced to discover them. Just as an example: When I was on the road before, I never even warmed up. My voice was preserved really well and I was technically doing all the right things and never really struggled with my voice. Now I need an hour now of serious warming up. It’s very structured and disciplined. I’ve got to eat a very specific way on show days. I have to rest more. It just takes more work. That just could be age, too, that’s all part of it. I’ll have to do it forever. It’s a physical workout and a vocal workout. It’s very high maintenance. But I do think I sing better, and I think I can do more things with my voice now than I did before. When I say I sing better, I think I’ve got some better qualities that I never had before. Though there are some things I could sing when I was younger that I probably couldn’t sing now unless I had a two hour warm-up routine, which I’m not really willing to do.”
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