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Jon Bon Jovi shares health update years after risky vocal chord surgery

Jon Bon Jovi shares health update years after risky vocal chord surgery

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Jon Bon Jovi has provided a positive update on his singing voice after undergoing risky surgery in 2022 to repair an atrophied vocal cord. The 64-year-old founder and frontman of Bon Jovi has been off the road since the crucial procedure. While the operation was successful, his musical future was left in limbo. “There were days I thought I was done,” he admitted to The Independent in November. Now, nearly five years after working with vocal coaches, the singer-songwriter says he is “fully recovered” as he prepares to embark on a new tour with his band. “It was longer than I’d ever expected, but it had to be right. We never lost faith,” Bon Jovi said in a new interview with People. “I think that this is a rebirth,” he added of touring again. “It is simply about the joy.” Jon Bon Jovi …

Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists

Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists

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You may find vocal fry irritating, but don’t automatically attribute it to women Cavan Images / Alamy If you have listened to a podcast or watched a video on TikTok lately, you will probably be familiar with vocal fry, even if you didn’t know it had a name. Vocal fry describes the creaky sound that occurs when we speak in our lowest vocal register. It is often considered irritating and is typically associated with young women, but new research suggests there is no good-quality evidence for this stereotype. Vocal fry occurs when our vocal cords are relaxed but not a lot of air is pushing past them, which naturally happens when we come to the end of an utterance. But it becomes more complicated in the context of popular culture, where it is often presented as a negative – or, more specifically, annoying – characteristic of young women’s speech. Now, Jeanne Brown at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and her colleagues have found that this idea ought to be interrogated. First, they analysed the speech …

Chris Martin loves her. Yungblud thinks she’s a rockstar: Meet the eightysomething vocal coach essential to the stars

Chris Martin loves her. Yungblud thinks she’s a rockstar: Meet the eightysomething vocal coach essential to the stars

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This It’s February 2016. Backstage at Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, Chris Martin is doing vocal exercises with a Bristolian woman in her seventies. Minutes from now, Coldplay will headline the Super Bowl 50 halftime show before an audience of 115 million. Martin, his nerves humming like a live wire, has flown out his vocal coach from London just for this. Not, one imagines, that he needed the training. After all, he’s Chris Martin! It’s just that, when she got wind of who else was on the bill – Beyoncé! Bruno Mars! – her eyebrows shot up. “Well,” Martin remembers her saying, “You’d better have a lesson, then.” Her name is Mary Hammond. She has flaming red hair, and glacier-blue eyes that miss nothing. A doyenne of vocal coaching, loved within show business, unknown outside of it, she has taught everyone from Martin and Adele …

Nadiya Hussain says she might still have TV job ‘if I was less vocal, shut my mouth and did as I was told’

Nadiya Hussain says she might still have TV job ‘if I was less vocal, shut my mouth and did as I was told’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter When Nadiya Hussain won the 2015 season of The Great British Bake Off, she won much more than the show’s standard prize of an engraved glass cake stand and a bouquet of flowers. Over the next decade, Hussain went on to become one of the BBC’s biggest breakout stars with cooking and food shows including Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, Nadiya’s Everyday Baking and Nadiya’s Everyday Spices earning her a devoted fanbase. Last year, however, the broadcaster cancelled the slate of shows, with Hussain revealing that she had not been given a “definitive” reason. In a new interview with Radio Times, however, she shed light on potential reasons behind the axing of her programmes. “It’s sad because I love showing people how to make recipes and how excited I am about them,” Hussain said, admitting that “near the end” of her working …