Singer channels ‘aggressive positivity’ on new album [Video]

fter being diagnosed with cancer, Limore Twena began recording an album. She performed recently at the Mod Club Theatre in Toronto and raised around $14,000 for cancer research.

“I coined the philosophy, ‘aggressive positivity,’ and what that means is that when you are faced with a challenge and you get slapped in the face with something really hard, the first thing you have to ask yourself is, are you ready to face it?” said Twena.

The 41-year-old wife and mother of three young children was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. “The first question I asked my doctor was, ‘Will it affect my voice?’ When the doctor said, ‘No, it shouldn’t,’ I announced: I’m recording an album,” she said.

Twena, who was trained in opera, studied in England with Kenneth Bowen, who taught Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, and in Los Angeles with Seth Riggs, Michael Jackson’s voice teacher.

“I started …