Singing during throat surgery

A professional singer sang through throat surgery carried out under hypnosis in France to ensure that doctors did not harm her vocal cords.

Singer Alama Kante, 31, who is from Guinea and specialises in traditional African songs, revealed the operation more than two months after it took place in April, saying she was now fully healed.

“I remember (during surgery) this voice singing all the time, my voice going around in my head because I said to myself it is out of the question that I lose my voice,” Kante, who lives in France and is the niece of Guinean singer Mory Kante, told Reuters.