Shania Twain's dysphonia was a rare complication of Lyme disease, which the country megastar has suffered from for years. "I had to have an operation that was very intense and it's an open-throat operation, very different from a vocal cord operation ... and 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," she told Extra in June 2019.
"When you're a singer and it's your voice, it is just a terrible, terrible feeling. It was a great, great loss, so I had to come to terms with losing the voice that I had and rediscovering my new one. It's been a long, a really rewarding, journey," she said. Twain explained that, although her voice won't be what it once was, therapy has taught her to "manipulate" her voice and "give in to change."
Twain took a 15-year hiatus from music to help her recovery, but her Las Vegas residency, "Shania Twain: Let's Go," opens in Dec. 2019, and fans should expect the singer they know and love. "Of course I will play the classics ... I think probably 'That Don't Impress Me Much' is one of my favorite ones to do," she said.
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