{"id":738425,"date":"2019-11-05T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/05\/losing-my-voice-was-the-darkest-moment-in-my-life\/"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:58:10","slug":"losing-my-voice-was-the-darkest-moment-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/05\/losing-my-voice-was-the-darkest-moment-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing My Voice Was The Darkest Moment In My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_560545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560545\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-560545\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Shakira-bell-1-400x470.jpg\" alt=\"Shakira\" width=\"400\" height=\"470\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-560545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Singer Shakira opened up on what she called \u201cthe darkest moment\u201d of her life, which was when she lost her voice two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy Award-winning singer had suffered a haemorrhage on her vocal cords which forced her to postpone her \u201c El Dorado World Tour \u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c It affected me deeply, there is a before and after,\u201d the 42 \u2013 year \u2013 old said during an interview with AFP late on Monday in Barcelona, where she lives with Spanish footballer Gerard Pique and their two young sons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou take many things for granted when you have them \u2026 In the case of my voice, it is something that is so inherent in my nature, it is my identity,\u201d she added in the interview at a Barcelona hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always thought that one day I would lose many things, one day you lose your youth, you lose your beauty, you even lose friends, there are people who come and go \u2026 but I never thought my voice was something that could disappear.<br \/>\u2013 \u2018 A miracle \u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201c When that doubt arose, when I did not know if I could sing again, it was the darkest moment of my life,\u201d she added<\/p>\n<p>Shakira will be performing on February 2, 2020, at the halftime show of the Super Bowl at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Shakira cancels tour, hopes for June return<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c We have a lot of ideas, it is hard to do them all in a short amount of time which we have. But we will try to take advantage of it as much as possible, especially the opportunity to represent Latinos,\u201d Shakira said.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakira Singer Shakira opened up on what she called \u201cthe darkest moment\u201d of her life, which was when she lost her voice two years ago. The Grammy Award-winning singer had suffered a haemorrhage on her vocal cords which forced her to postpone her \u201c El Dorado World Tour \u201d. \u201c It affected me deeply, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Losing My Voice Was The Darkest Moment In My Life - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/05\/losing-my-voice-was-the-darkest-moment-in-my-life\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Losing My Voice Was The Darkest Moment In My Life - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Shakira Singer Shakira opened up on what she called \u201cthe darkest moment\u201d of her life, which was when she lost her voice two years ago. 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