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Who knew that Leslie Feist used to sing in a heavy metal band? Surely not I. The “1-2-3-4″ singer claims that she nearly destroyed her vocal chords by spending years singing heavy metal.

She insists that she came close to ruining her music career after the years she spent in a 90′s rock band screaming along to their songs. She says that it took nearly a year for her voice to recover.

She says,

“It was all about aggression and volume when I was younger singing with a hardcore band. My voice eventually broke and I wasn’t sure if was going to come back. “I had to rest for nine months and then learn how to sing again.” But the star is convinced the experience helped her discover her new sound. “The mechanics of recovery meant I couldn’t ever sing like that again. A different girl and a different voice came out. I started to learn the guitar and began layering my voice with a four-track recorder. “I moved to a new city. It was a new leaf and a new life. It was an escape to melody.”

Hopefully she’s not a one hit wonder. Isn’t it funny that she never seemed really popular until she was featured on that Apple commercial?