FINDING MY VOICE AGAIN
When a voice disorder meant that writer Currie Engel was unable to sing or talk properly, she realised just how much her own ‘music’ was connected to who she was
“I've been a singer my entire life. Music has always been personal, creative and self-generated. For a long time, I was, in a sense, my own source of the ‘music’ in my life. It was how I identified with memories, other people and my family.
But when I was in college, I developed painful nodules on my vocal folds from overuse (singing and socialising took a toll) that turned my voice into a whisper. For three years, I couldn't really sing. Doctors said they could operate, but it was a last resort and might not fix the problem. I didn't want to risk it. So, my music – and a big part of myself – was lost.
Music isn't just instruments and headphones. Our voices are our music, the melody we listen to most often – at the gym during a
