For those that don’t know. NE-YO is a black American singer.
It seems that his songs or voice are causing problems to some people. So it
wouldn’t be wrong id you stop listening to NE-YO’s songs. A mother has
undergone surgery to remove part of her brain in a bid to stop crippling
seizures which she claims are triggered by the sound of Neyo's voice..Zoe
Fennessy, 26,says within seconds of hearing his voice, she has an epileptic
seizure which make her freeze, vomit and unable to react to the world around
her.
The healthcare assistant has to wear earphones whenever she goes shopping just
in case Neyo's tunes are played in stores. Surgeons removed part of her
left frontal lobe in June in a bid to stop the affliction. But the surgery was
not successful and doctors now fear she may have the condition forever.
Miss Fennessy - who has been unable to work for six months because of her
affliction told Mailonline
'I don't dislike Ne-Yo or his music, it just dislikes me unfortunately. I'll
be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my
earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on.
'It's the same with most shops. I have to walk in with my ear phones in at
first just to make sure they don't have Ne-Yo on.If he ever releases a greatest
hits album it's going to be a nightmare. Whenever I hear the first few beats of
the song I have to drop whatever I am doing and run..'People might think it is
funny - and I can laugh at it myself - but it has taken over my life. It's
ruined my life.'
It wasn't until she heard Ne-Yo's first big hit, 'Give Me Everything' featuring
Pitbull - which topped the charts in May 2011 - that she had her first
music-induced seizure.
It took me a while to realise that they were being triggered by his songs.
'It wasn't until I'd heard it for about the 15th time that it finally twigged
what was going on.' The song was really popular and I went to my consultant and
I said "I know this sounds extremely bizarre, but every time I hear this
song I have a seizure". He said it was fascinating and that he'd never
heard anything like it. I stressed that while it might be fascinating, I was
really struggling - the song was everywhere at the time.'
In June this year, Miss Fennessy endured a six-hour long operation to remove a
huge chunk of her left temporal lobe where doctors thought all her seizures may
originate.
But while the symptoms of her epilepsy have reduced, she still has a fit every
time she hears Ne-Yo's voice.
I have had to go up to DJs in places and say 'look can you not play Ne-Yo' and
they just look at me like I'm an alien,'[Doctors] are saying it could possibly
be something in the tone of his voice, something like that, but it doesn't
happen when I hear Usher, or people like him who have a very similar sound. It
is only him, only Ne-Yo.'
'Our holiday this year to Majorca was a nightmare. Honestly it was like being
at a Ne-Yo concert - the song was everywhere.I had to stay in the hotel room
for most of the holiday because it got so bad.'
She has been clinically diagnosed with 'musicogenic seizures' which are
triggered by the tone of Ne-Yo's voice.
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