Catching up with... Bobbie Eakes

After years of avoiding the stage, Bobbie Eakes recently came off of a smash show in Amsterdam

- Tom Stacy

“I thought that it would not matter to me if I never sang again,” she begins. “I thought, ‘I’m going to take a break,’ and it was fine. I had that chapter in my life and I don’t really mind if I don’t do anything anymore. But then, people started asking me to do different things like charity events, which you really want to do, and I was shocked. Your voice is like a muscle, and it can atrophy. I got depressed about it and thought I lost it and I will never get it back. But people kept asking me to do things and then I thought I was being selfish because if people want you to do something, think of it as something for them, not something for yourself. So, when my friend in Holland said, ‘Do you want to do this show?’ I said okay and I was working really hard singing every day, and I’ve been doing that for over a year and I was ready! I really had to work a lot harder because I had let it go for a lot longer, but my voice is back and I am so happy. Now I’m keeping up my exercises because I never ever want to get in that position again.”