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I’m Glad That Most of My Highs Are Still There,” says Bruce Dickinson, the singer of Iron Maiden, in an interview.
In a new interview with Germany’s Rock Antenne, IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson was asked how he keeps his singing voice in shape after touring and recording for several decades. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Uh, I don’t know. A certain amount of it is probably the way I’m made. And then a lot of it is trying to look after the bits that you’ve already got. And other than that… I think the voice, it does change as you get older. I mean, there’s no doubting that, but I’ve been lucky that most of my highs are still there. And we do all the MAIDEN show in the original key, all the songs and everything. Which is not to say that one or two of the songs aren’t quite challenging. But I have news for you: they were always challenging; when I was 25, they were challenging.”
He continued: “The tone of my voice has changed a little bit, and in many ways I like it more now than I did when I was 23. 23, I was like shiny and squeaky. Your voice becomes more lived in. You can express more emotion, you can carry more emotion. So, for example, there’s a song on [my upcoming solo] album [‘The Mandrake Project’] called ‘Rain On The Graves’. I couldn’t have sung that song when I was 22 years old in the same way. So it’s interesting to see how the kind of emotional life of the voice develops over the years. So that’s the kind of the realm that I’m trying. I’m trying to extend the range, the emotional range of my voice, as much as preserve the physical range at the same time.”
Dickinson also talked about his diet and exercise routine and how it affects his singing voice. He said: “I maybe changed a couple of minor things on my diet. I don’t eat as much bread, but mainly that’s because my wife is French, so I’m completely indoctrinated into the ways of French bread. And I’d rather not eat bread at all than eat rubbish, like industrial bread. So I’m sold on that idea. So I actually eat a lot less bread and I try and eat a bit more protein than I used to. And I do sometimes go down the gym and throw a few bits of iron around. And I still train fencing, and I don’t think people realize how physical that sport is, ’cause you’re covered in white and you’re wearing a mask. So it’s like people say, ‘Grand Prix drivers, they don’t they don’t do much hard work, do they?’ Because they’re all covered in the suit and they’ve got a helmet on, but they’re losing god knows how many kilos of water. They work physically incredibly hard. And the same thing on stage. I mean, on stage with MAIDEN, I’m losing about three liters of water during a show. I probably drink a liter and a half or two liters during the show. And so when I go back to my hotel room, I’m still a liter short of where I should be, so that I just gradually make that up. As a singer, ’cause I sing from my diaphragm and all the good things you should do, it’s not happy if you chuck an entire liter of water into your belly.”
