Brian Littrell has a crippling vocal chord condition that’s been haunting him for years, and some fans have taken note since BSB’s Las Vegas residency began this weekend.
Backstreet’s back, all right.
The Backstreet Boys kicked off their their highly-anticipated 21-concert “Into The Millennium” Las Vegas Sphere residency this weekend.
But fans of the famous fivesome couldn’t help but notice that one of its beloved harmonizers, Brian Littrell, sounded a little different.
The singer, 50, recently opened up about a crippling vocal chord condition that’s been haunting him for years.
“I’m seeing a vocal therapist in California, so you know, it’s starting to come out,” he told Parade. “It’s starting to feel a little more natural. But, yeah, it’s a work in progress. It always will be.”
Littrell has been struggling with muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) since 2012. In a 2015 interview with The Seven Sees, he said the problems started “mid-way through the Backstreet Boys’ New Kids On The Block tour.”
“That’s when the symptoms kind of came up.
