CeCe Sammy-Lightfoot, International Vocal & Performance Coach - Power Your Voice Laurie Stone Sammy-Lightfoot suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm but has come back stronger than ever AT the height of her career, British voice coach and entrepreneur CeCe Sammy-Lightfoot collapsed in a Las Vegas meeting. The 33-year-old was rushed to hospital, where the diagnosis was devastating, a fully ruptured brain aneurysm. Doctors warned her family that even if she survived – statistics show only a 50 per cent survival rate – she might never walk or speak again. Sammy-Lightfoot, who had started out as a backing singer for Diana Ross, was then at the peak of her powers, running an international vocal coaching and artist development business, advising record labels, appearing regularly on TV – and all the time raising a four-month-old daughter. It was a terrible irony for a woman whose life and livelihood were built on the human voice. “I had to relearn everything,” Sammy-Lig...
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