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- Linda Thompson lost her ability to sing to spasmodic dysphonia, but the British folk-rock legend's music is still being heard on a new album.
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Jun 20, 2024 · The singer and songwriter who rose from the ’60s British folk-rock scene lost her vocals to a neurological disorder. So she wrote a batch of tracks for others to voice.
Jul 11, 2024 · Renowned Scottish folk-rock singer Linda Thompson, 77 next month, doesn’t sing a note because she can’t; the condition that she has lived with for more than 40 years, spasmodic dysphonia,...
Unfortunately, Linda developed spasmodic dysphonia at a young age. She shared her journey with us. “I was 25 and pregnant when it happened for the first time. It affected my singing then, not my speaking. I would open my mouth in the studio, and nothing would come out for a good few seconds,” she said.
Jun 24, 2024 · But Linda’s subsequent solo career was derailed by spasmodic dysphonia, a degenerative health condition that makes her voice strangulated and hard to control. For some decades, she was able to record, if not perform, but in recent years her vocal abilities have withered entirely.
Afflicted by dysphonia since 1973, the condition has more or less guaranteed that live performances these days are non-existent, and records come every six years or so – there have been three...
Aug 23, 2007 · For years, Linda Thompson's vocal disorder, hysteric dysphonia, made her stop singing completely. It took three years to complete her new CD, Versatile Heart.
