Huey Lewis discussed how his hearing loss has afffected his relationship to music. 'Music is not part of my life anymore,' he said on a podcast.
Huey Lewis opened up during a recent episode of a podcast about how his relationship to music has changed because of his hearing loss.
“My life has changed immeasurably. I can’t hear music. Music is not part of my life anymore,” he said.
“I’m basically deaf,” the former lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News said in an episode of the “podcast released Tuesday. “My life has changed immeasurably. I can’t hear music. Music is not part of my life anymore, which is a hard pill to swallow.
” Lewis explained that he uses a cochlear implant to help him hear and understand speech, but he is unable to distinguish pitch because of the way the device operates.
“My cochlear implant, it breaks everything down into digital bits so I can understand,” he said. “Speech is easier to listen to than music. Music occurs in all frequencies, with overtones and harmonics and everything. It comes at you in a lot of different frequencies, so it distorts for me ...
It makes pitch impossible to hear. ”A staple of ‘80s radio and MTV, Huey Lewis returns with a new album. But he may never perform again, due to an inner-ear condition.
“When I cook or I have people over for dinner, I always used to play them music,” he said. “I have a great collection of old big band stuff and old New Orleans jazz and I don’t play it at all anymore. ... It’s weird.
I can hear the beat, I know what’s going on. But I can’t enjoy it. ”“Music used to be so much fun,” he added. But “it just ends up being frustrating for me when I can’t enjoy it.
I can’t feel the warmth. ”his struggles with hearing loss with The Times. The “Hip to Be Square” singer said his Meniere’s disease diagnosis in early 2018 was “brutal. ” “When it first happened, I thought I might as well kill myself,” Lewis said in the 2020 interview, which described him as being “surprisingly upbeat” for someone whose life was so deeply affected by the diagnosis.
Meniere’s disease is a disorder of the inner ear that can cause severe dizziness, ringing in the ears, hearing loss and ears feeling congested, according toWhile it’s clear that Lewis misses aspects of his musician life, he also appears to appreciate having time for his other passions since his life doesn’t revolve around being on the road performing 75 to 100 shows a year.
“I fish a lot,” Lewis said in the “Inside of You” podcast. “I love to fly fish and I love Mother Nature. I get out there by myself in a stream and I’m conducting nature with my fly rod and it’s just a wonderful thing. I love to do it, and hearing not required. ”
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