Katherine Jenkins<\/a> refuses to speak for a day before her gigs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Katherine Jenkins refuses to speak for a day before her gigs<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old singer, who has children Aaliay Reign, eight, and six-year-old Xander Robert Selwyn with her husband of 10 years Andrew Levitas, 46, says she won\u2019t utter a sound for 24 hours ahead of shows to preserve her voice \u2013 even if it means being unable to control her kids.<\/p>\n
She told The Times: \u201cI don\u2019t have alcohol, I drink loads of water and I stop going to noisy places so I don\u2019t overuse my voice. I want to stay focused.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the 24 hours before the show I won\u2019t speak at all. The voice is a muscle and when you whisper, you\u2019re still vibrating the cords and not getting the rest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a six-year-old and an eight-year-old, and they find it hilarious that they can do whatever they like to mummy and I can\u2019t speak back, so the house becomes a big game of charades.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKatherine also says she has a series of superstitions before concerts, adding: \u201cI do things in a certain order, silly things like putting my right shoe on before my left. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cI always stop by myself for a little minute and I say a prayer. I ask God and my dad to bless my voice and help me to remember my words, more of a comfort than a necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKatherine\u2019s father was killed by lung cancer aged 70 when she was 15, and the Times profile on the singer says mention of it and the fact her interviewer\u2019s dad died when they were 12 made her burst into tears.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cLife can go either way. It can be the reason that things unravel, or like in my case, my dad became a driving force.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019m trying not to cry \u2013 you know it\u2019s so silly because it\u2019s so long ago and now and again it just catches me.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019ve been without my dad longer than I was with him yet I think about him every day, every time I sing. I speak to him. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe informs all my musical choices because if you\u2019ve had loss, you\u2019re more drawn to emotional music. Music has helped me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nShe added about how the disease that claimed her father\u2019s life has afflicted her relatives and husband: \u201cCancer is a big thing in our family. Andrew also lost his dad to cancer, I lost a best friend to cancer when she was just 32, my mother worked in breast cancer screening, my sister worked for Macmillan. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cAt school my best friend\u2019s mum passed away to cancer within six months of me losing my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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