{"id":16055,"date":"2019-06-19T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1808204"},"modified":"2019-06-19T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:07:18","slug":"how-shania-twain-found-a-new-voice-after-lyme-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/how-shania-twain-found-a-new-voice-after-lyme-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"How Shania Twain Found a New Voice After Lyme Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 2m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

In 2003, Shania Twain<\/a> was in Norfolk, Virginia when she was bitten by a tiny (think 1\/8\u2033) tick that caused a big problem: dysphonia.<\/p>\n

Dysphonia is a kind of vocal cord muscle paralysis, and is a rare complication from Lyme Disease. So that tick in Virginia was responsible for taking Twain\u2019s voice. And now, she\u2019s opening up about what she\u2019s done to get that voice back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to have an operation that was very intense and it\u2019s an open-throat operation, very different from a vocal cord operation,\u201d Twain told<\/a> Extra<\/em>, \u201cand I had to have two of them, so that was really, really, really tough and I survived that, meaning emotionally I survived, and am just ready to keep going.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re a singer and it\u2019s your voice, it is just a terrible, terrible feeling,\u201d she added. \u201cIt was a great, great loss, so I had to come to terms with losing the voice that I had and rediscovering my new one.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long, a really rewarding, journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while Twain\u2019s vocal cords are not completely out of the woods yet, she said that she is working on other non-surgical ways to teach her voice to sound like hers again. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned in the interim through therapy is how to manipulate my voice to get it to do what I want it to do \u2014 or at least close enough that I don\u2019t want to give up \u2014 so you just gotta be willing and give in to change,\u201d she said, \u201cand you have to accept that you don\u2019t always have to be the same and that\u2019s what I have to do, and I\u2019m embracing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans will be able to hear Twain\u2019s new voice at the shows on her new Las Vegas residency<\/a>. Shania Twain: Let\u2019s Go<\/em> will open on December 7 at the Zappo\u2019s Theater inside Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. The residency is currently scheduled to run through the end of March 2020.<\/p>\n

Tickets go on sale on Friday (June 21), and $1 of every ticket purchased will be donated to Shania Kids Can<\/a> to provide services that promote positive change in children\u2019s lives in time of crises and economic hardship.<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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