Teyana Taylor Sings for First Time Since Vocal Cord Surgery: ‘I Could Barely Even Talk’

For the archetypal clip since undergoing emergency vocal cord surgery successful aboriginal August, Teyana Taylor treated invited guests to a mini show astatine The Sun Rose successful West Hollywood Tuesday nighttime (Oct. 14). The juncture was a Grammy for-your-consideration speech with Adam Blackstone connected behalf of Taylor’s latest medium — and archetypal since 2020 — Escape Room.

“This is going to beryllium a antithetic benignant of bequest night,” said the multi-instrumentalist-musical director-producer. “This is simply a precise peculiar originative speech for my miss Teyana Taylor.”

Over the adjacent hour, Blackstone dropped the needle connected assorted medium tracks and interludes specified arsenic “Open Invite” featuring Kaytranada, “In Your Skin” and “Long Time” positive 1 of the album’s communicative interludes voiced by Issa Rae. After each playback, Taylor chatted with Blackstone astir what inspired the album, its further featured guests, the different high-profile friends — including Regina King and Taraji P. Henson — who lent their voices, the creator state that comes from breaking retired of preconceived genre boxes and the vulnerability, resilience and authenticity that Escape Room represents. The brace besides talked astir the singer-songwriter-actress-director’s astir valued role: mom.

Of returning to euphony pursuing a five-year hiatus, Taylor said, “I don’t deliberation I would beryllium doing fractional the things that I’m doing present since 2020 if I hadn’t taken that religion walk; a leap that I needed to take. At that point, it didn’t substance astir what anybody other wanted maine to do. It was a gamble I had to instrumentality with God and say, ‘OK, this is however it’s going to spell down.’”

As an added treat, a tentative Taylor — cheered connected by the assemblage — winningly performed 2 songs, “Bed of Roses” and “Hard Part,” accompanied by Blackstone connected piano. For the latter, the assemblage was treated to different astonishment erstwhile Lucky Daye, Taylor’s duet spouse connected the track, joined her connected signifier to sing the opus unrecorded for the archetypal time. Its video was released Monday (Oct. 13).

Ahead of singing “Bed of Roses,” Taylor — who’s inactive recuperating — cautioned the audience: “I haven’t sung since surgery. I haven’t adjacent done my small vocal therapy.”

Speaking further afterward astir her surgery, Taylor said, “I had polyps connected my vocal cords that I had to get surgically removed and past I was to unopen up for 2 weeks. But I got the country 2 weeks earlier the medium dropped. So I tried to bash arsenic overmuch [promotion] arsenic I could. Then the medium came out.

“But I besides had to caput consecutive connected the roadworthy to bash property for my caller movie [One Battle After Another],” she continued. “So I consciousness similar the medium benignant of got overshadowed due to the fact that I had to cancel a batch of performances. But it was either I get [surgery] astatine that clip oregon don’t get it astatine all. Then I wouldn’t beryllium capable to spell connected circuit adjacent year. So fto maine conscionable sound this s–t retired present due to the fact that it got to a constituent wherever I could hardly adjacent talk.”

Another peculiar infinitesimal came arsenic the speech drew to a close. Blackstone int...