In a video shared to the band's TikTok over the weekend, Emily Saliers shared the details of her ongoing health issues while seated on a couch alongside musical partner Amy Ray.
Saliers went on to say that she wants to be "completely forthcoming" ahead of the Indigo Girls' upcoming tour about how the neurological movement disorder cervical dystonia, along with essential tremor, have impacted her singing voice.
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“Many of you have noticed that my voice — maybe all of you have noticed, it’s pretty noticeable — that my voice is not what it once was,” she said.
“But the other diagnosis, which is harder in fact for me, is an essential tremor," she added. "And the essential tremor causes involuntary shakes or movement, and it affects all the parts of my singing apparatus, the larynx, the pharyngeal muscles, my jaw and my diaphragm from which I get all the air for singing," she continued. "So I’m unable to make the connections muscularly and structurally because of the essential tremor. What else the essential tremor does is give me this — I am gonna call it horrible, because it’s horrible to me — vibrato that I never used to have. I am completely physically unable to hold a straight tone the way I used to.”
“What you, our community, have come to, I think, appreciate and love about some of our harmonies is the way we can hold long straight tones together. So I want to give you a heads up about that, in full transparency,” Saliers continued, going on to thank Ray for being "super supportive" and assure concert-goers that "as we get ready for these shows, we are doing everything we can to make the songs sound as good as they can possibly sound or ever sound, which includes all the modern digital tools that front-of-house engineers use to help singers sound better.”
View this post on Instagram"Emily the both of you have been such a huge part of my life growing up. I'm two years younger than you and things are happening with my body that I don't understand either, but that being said keep soldiering on and I hope that you can keep your symptoms at bay with all that you're doing," one person wrote.
The Indigo Girls are hitting the road later this month and are scheduled to tour the U.S. through September.
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