{"id":10348,"date":"2026-04-19T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/indigo-girls-emily-voice-cervical-dystonia-essential-tremor-1236226603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:14:07","slug":"indigo-girls-emily-voice-cervical-dystonia-essential-tremor-1236226603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/indigo-girls-emily-voice-cervical-dystonia-essential-tremor-1236226603\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Girls\u2019 Emily Saliers Reveals Cervical Dystonia and Essential Tremor Diagnoses: \u2018My Voice Will Not Be What It\u00a0Was\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tEmily Saliers, one-half of the Indigo Girls<\/a> (alongside Amy Ray), says she\u2019s facing two incurable medical conditions that will affect her vocal performance on the duo\u2019s upcoming tour.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSaliers shared she\u2019s \u201chad this diagnosis for a while\u201d in a post published on the band\u2019s Instagram account<\/a> on Saturday (April 18). She said \u201cthe conditions get incrementally worse over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a video recorded during tour rehearsals in Atlanta, the artist explained she \u201cwanted to be completely forthcoming\u201d about her experience with cervical dystonia (a neurological movement disorder) and essential tremor (a nervous system disorder).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMany of you have noticed that my voice \u2014 maybe all of you have noticed, it\u2019s pretty noticeable \u2014 that my voice is not what it once was,\u201d she said in the clip. \u201cSo I wanted to share with you that I\u2019ve been diagnosed with two movement disorders. One is called cervical dystonia with torticollis, which basically is in the part of my brain that controls movement \u2026 And in other people with this condition, the brain sends signals to tighten muscles. So because of the cervical dystonia, my head twists to the right and is misaligned. It can cause shaking of the head. It\u2019s impossible for me to hold my head centrally without shaking, things like that. So structurally, obviously, that is problematic for this whole throat area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSaliers continued, \u201cBut the other diagnosis, which is harder in fact for me, is an essential tremor. 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. So I\u2019m unable to make the connections muscularly and structurally because of the essential tremor. What else the essential tremor does is give me this \u2014 I am gonna call it horrible, because it\u2019s horrible to me \u2014 vibrato that I never used to have. I am completely physically unable to hold a straight tone the way I used to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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