R&B Singer Tank on Making Music Amid Losing His Hearing: ‘I Do Have Vertigo Pretty Much Every Day’ – Yahoo Eurosport UK
R&B singer Tank may have announced his retirement from music, but he’s not letting health complications get in the way of his final act. The “Maybe I Deserve” hitmaker revealed this news earlier in the year after explaining that he is going deaf in his right ear and losing his hearing in the other in an Instagram video; he was also diagnosed with an “extreme case of vertigo.”
Tank, 45, is bidding the industry adieu with his final album, titled R&B Money, due to arrive on Feb. 4……..
R&B singer Tank may have announced his retirement from music, but he’s not letting health complications get in the way of his final act. The “Maybe I Deserve” hitmaker revealed this news earlier in the year after explaining that he is going deaf in his right ear and losing his hearing in the other in an Instagram video; he was also diagnosed with an “extreme case of vertigo.”
Tank, 45, is bidding the industry adieu with his final album, titled R&B Money, due to arrive on Feb. 4. He tells PEOPLE Every Day host Janine Rubenstein that it wasn’t an easy process adjusting to making music with his health issues, but he was determined to pull through.
“It was tough at first because now it’s like all the information is flooding one ear,” he explains. “That one ear was just like, ‘Hold up, doc, I can’t handle all that,’ and so it took time to get that part of it.” But his hearing was only one component of his struggles; he adds that his vertigo also serves as a major challenge. “It’s either light or kind of medium, but I do have vertigo pretty much every day.”
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Tank admits that he had to initially check in with his engineer to ensure things were still working. “I was like, ‘How do I sound, do I sound good? Am I good? Am I all right?’ ” he recalls. “He’s like, ‘You sound like yourself.'”
What fans hear on his new music, including his latest single “I Deserve,” are his first attempts at singing with one ear, but he’s been overjoyed going through this final victory lap despite his health complications. “I’m back on stage… My body has kind of made the adjustment to being able to hear on this one side,” he says. “I know how to operate with the vertigo, so I don’t run into those speakers and then fall off the stage. It’s going pretty good.”
Looking back at how it all started, Tank says he knew something was up after a trip to the gym, when he lost his balance and almost fell on his way out. “I just got completely dizzy … my ear had been clogged, my right ear, and then it just started ringing and everything just sounded like a distorted telephone was coming through that ear,” he thinks back. “And then this ear, my left ear just felt clogged.”
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