Despite the power behind Adele’s voice, the vocal folds — the mechanism that produces the singer’s signature sound, also called the vocal cords or voice box — are made of extremely delicate membranes that can swell, callous, and hemorrhage if overextended. Such was the case for the rising pop star in 2011 when a small growth called a polyp ruptured on Adele’s vocal cord in the middle of a French radio performance. The injury immediately affected Adele’s ability to use her voice, prompting the singer to undergo laser surgery to repair the vocal fold.
Adele had been struggling to preserve her voice before the polyp hemorrhage, with several of the singer’s tour dates being canceled years prior due to a chronic bout of laryngitis, which is an inflammation of the larynx that causes a hoarse, thin voice. “Singing is literally my life,” the singer said in a statement released by MTV. “I have great confidence in believing you know how much this upsets me, how seriously I take it.”
And indeed, Adele did take the rehabilitation of her damaged voice seriously. She underwent vocal rehab to retrain her voice to its full potential and continued recording, performing, and touring into the late aughts. Adele even installed a $500k air humidification and purification system onstage for her Las Vegas residency to help protect the singer’s voice from dehydration and exhaustion.
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