Teyana Taylor just suffered a big hit to her resurgent music career, just weeks before the release of her new album Escape Room . On Wednesday, the singer told fans via her Instagram that she needed surgery to remove a growth on her vocal cords. The result: several upcoming appearances to promote the album have been canceled or postponed, including a stop by Michelle Obama’s podcast.

“I’ve been quietly dealing with some vocal challenges for a while now,” she wrote. “And after a lot of back and forth with my doctors, I’ve been told I need vocal surgery immediately. “They found a noncancerous growth on one of my cords that’s been messing with my voice and causing real discomfort. Thankfully, we caught it & it’s treatable—but it does mean I need to pause and give myself time to fully he

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