Hi Richard - > She's in LA at The Troupador on Saturday night... > SF/Great American tomorrow night...
I saw this for the LA date last week but recall it was already sold out or I would try to go. Thanks for the article. Someone in the medical profession who used to be on the list told me about the botox injections for the throat and I have wondered if Joni might have tried that. (I am not meaning to be disrespectful of Joni's voice). As a "middle-aged" (but still having fun ;-) woman, I have read a lot about how hormonal factors sometimes change woman singers' voice as they age and, just IMO, I think that, along with straining the voice, may have factored as much into Joni's vocal changes as the smoking. I say if the botox shot helps, go for it! Kakki > "It's not a very known thing," she said. "It happens in pregnancy and > it happened to me. And anything that doctors couldn't see 30 years > ago, they said it's all in your mind. I'm a hyper-dyper person > anyway, so somebody tells me I'm nuts, I go, 'Well, yeah, you're > probably right.' If they say, 'It's all in your head, calm down,' I'd > go, 'They must know what they're talking about.' " > "I've been to therapy," she said. "I've been to every single thing, > and the upshot of it is that I've had some Botox in my throat, which > has completely taken it away, which is hilarious. I'm still as > wrinkled as ever, but I'm the only person in the Western Hemisphere > with an unlined esophagus. I'm so fashionable.
