‘My husband saw me at my worst’: Shakira said she became ‘very bitter’ after fearing she had lost her voice for good… but it came back after she had a ‘religious experience’ at Lourdes

of Editorial board -13 November 2019

The singer Shakira in 2017 risked never being able to sing again, due to a hemorrhage on her vocal cords. Find the voice with the water of Lourdes

The revelation of the singer to The Guardian newspaper : ” I thought there would be things in my life that slowly would have abandoned me, like beauty, youth … But I never thought that my voice could have left me because it’s so rooted in my nature. It’s my identity. Not being able to sing was unbearable. “

For Shakira it was a moment of depression, she had difficulty communicating with her children, she had to express herself with gestures. But she didn’t want surgery, as the doctors suggested.

She was afraid that the intervention would not be successful.

‘My husband saw me at my worst’: Shakira said she became ‘very bitter’ after fearing she had lost her voice for good… but it came back after she had a ‘religious experience’ at Lourdes

The water of Lourdes

Between meditation and yoga, Shakira tried tried the water of Lourdes. The voice is back: the pop star tells of having experienced something mystical : “It was as if I had lived a mystical experience “, said the star.

She’s won multiple Grammy, Latin Grammy and American Music Awards and has sold 75m records worldwide. 

But Shakira, 42, has admitted that in late 2017, she suffered a haemorrhage to her vocal cords and feared losing her voice for good.  

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