“There were days when I couldn’t even get out of bed, losing my voice was like losing my whole identity”, as Shakira reformulated her life after that event.

Shakira has long been probably one of the most well-known Latin artists in the world. Several generations have grown up with her music and apparently she doesn’t plan on retiring anytime soon. But in 2017 she was on the verge of doing just that, because she nearly lost her voice after hemorrhaging her vocal cords.

At the awesome.club we tell the story of one of the most difficult moments in the life of the Colombian singer.

In 2017 Shakira was forced to suspend the start of her “El Dorado World Tour” due to a sad event. In the month of July, as she revealed in her account on twitterthe doctors detected a hemorrhage in his right vocal cord, which is why he needed to rest.

Although she admitted in an official statement to her fans that she had spent several months planning the world tour, it was this health problem that forced her to postpone her European tour until 2018. But this problem was not the worst thing at the time. In fact, this condition caused her to fall into a deep depression and she even thought that she would never sing again.

Of course, this terrible news shocked all her fans, who happily never left her and always showed their solidarity with the singer. In several interviews, she declared that it was thanks to their support and affection that she was able to move forward, as they even prayed for her, asking for her recovery.

Although Shakira admitted to knowing that time would take many things with it, such as her youth or beauty, she also confessed to being very afraid of the possibility of losing her peculiar voice, with which she moved hundreds of people on countless occasions. “She IS so inherent in my nature. It’s my identity. The thought that I wouldn’t be able to sing again was unbearable,” she said. The Colombian artist also stated that going through this situation made her plunge into a deep sadness and there were days when she didn’t even want to get out of bed.

Although doctors advised the singer to undergo surgery to recover, she chose to heal naturally. Instead of an operation, she opted for treatment with corticosteroids and plenty of rest, as she feared she would lose her particular tone of voice if she opted for surgery.

The famous and talented artist has a lot of faith and has said in interviews that she prays as much as her fans, who even organized masses for her recovery. “I asked God that, if I got my voice back, I would celebrate this every day” and he does it now, because luckily this story had a happy ending.

Shakira not only preserved her voice and recovered naturally, she celebrates every day, as she promised. She even made a documentary two years later rescuing her experience and sharing with her followers in a feature film how her world tour “El Dorado World Tour” was after recovering her voice.

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