Alicia Keys cancels two US concerts due to swollen vocal cords

I've been saying since last year that this girl's voice was clearly in deep trouble, and sure enough she's now cancelling gigs due to her battered vocal cords. If she doesn't deal with this, and make adjustments she could go the way of MJ and Lauryn Hill.....


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Singer is is suffering from swollen vocal chords
Apr 24, 2008

Alicia Keys has cancelled two shows on her North American tour because of swollen vocal cords.

Gigs in Pittsburgh on Tuesday (April 22) and in Cleveland tonight (April 24) at the Wolstein Center were scrapped.

A statement posted on her website said ths singer is "currently being treated by a physician" and is expected to return to the stage on Saturday (April 26) in Columbus.

In February the singer postponed two concerts on her European tour after her doctor told her to rest her voice.
[Edited 5/1/08 12:05pm]

She's back on track now. Here is part of a performance she did the other night.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...fb-H7DTivM

dragondayz said:

At least she's singing, thats more than i can say for a certain number one album out right now from a great vocalist who records most of her vocals in the studio and uses it as a live clip track when onstage.

I'm sooo sorry Alicia Keys fans



I should'nt have had her do that thing.....ya know.....that thing last week

lastdecember said:

I thought this was show business lingo for "cancelling shows that did not sell out".

Cinnie said:

lastdecember said:

It must be too much howling on "No One"...just a guess...

Just cut the song, Alicia. Although you may think differently, the audience will be so appreciative.

...extraordinarily opinionated...

soul4thought: Est. 2008
http://www.last.fm/user/soulelectric/

soul4thought said:

midnightmover said:

dragondayz said:

She's back on track now. Here is part of a performance she did the other night.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...fb-H7DTivM

Right there, you can hear why her voice keeps going out on her. Like a lot of her peers she sings too loud. She tries too hard. She's obviously not taking the doctor's advice. Singing like that she'll blow her vocal cords out again in no time, and next time it will be permanent. Is she trying to move the audience or deafen them?

dragondayz said:

midnightmover said:

Right there, you can hear why her voice keeps going out on her. Like a lot of her peers she sings too loud. She tries too hard. She's obviously not taking the doctor's advice. Singing like that she'll blow her vocal cords out again in no time, and next time it will be permanent. Is she trying to move the audience or deafen them?

She's always sung loud and hard. That's almost her trademark.

The producer who let her record "No One" in that key should be shot. It's painful to listen to and doing it over and over live can only fuck her voice up.

Mong said:

aalloca said:

NuPwr319 said:

aalloca said:

1000% co-sign

I agree at least she sings Last Dec, but she is just out of key 95% on all her songs live. I just can't handle it.

The Mariah thing is really a shame,cause she has me swinging for her again since the Idols mentoring thing, she had some great riffs and melody suggestions. She does have/had a great voice, but why not sing. Why is that acceptable.

Another question to the forum.... When did this lip sync thing happen to become the norm? Now excluding TV, what artist started doing it first... ie singing to a backing track?

I don't know, but lip sync-ing is when they're not singing at all, just miming the song. Singing to a backing track probably started happening when somebody decided that they didn't want to pay live musicians.

and sorry to hijack the thread.

aalloca said:

NuPwr319 said:

I don't know, but lip sync-ing is when they're not singing at all, just miming the song. Singing to a backing track probably started happening when somebody decided that they didn't want to pay live musicians.

Both are 100% wrong.... Not singing at all is horrendous, singing to a background track of your voice is never respectable either.

But I want to know the first to do either? So I can remember to never buy their album's and what to attribute the mediocrity of today's pop performers. Who think because they add lights, dancers, and gimmicks that lack of substance is acceptable.
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I dont really have an issue with her singing (alicia that is), i do have an issue with the CD sound , but that is with 90% of cd's today, they are all engineered and mastered poorly causing distortion. As for Mariah, its a mystery why she doesnt sing alot in concert, because she doesnt. Though at LIVE8 it was her version of "Make it happen" that was the best vocal she had done since 1991 in a live forum.

LD,

One of the rare times we disconnect. I just don't see Alicia in the way you do.

There are some artists/frontmen/woman which have a distinct almost nasal key tonality, but some people will argue that Alicia is technically a good singer.

All I know is she is out of key, it makes my ears ring like a D Sharp over a D.

BUT>>>>> We do agree today's cd's sound horrible.

Oh another Question on the Ryan Adam's Easy Tiger. I hear a ton of distortion on the vocals on Everbody knows and Two. Do you hear it to?