Jon Bon Jovi confesses that it was his wife who made him realize that his voice “was broken”: “The one who tells the truth the most”
Jon Bon Jovi at the MusiCares Foundation gala that awarded him Person of the Year in 2024
Being for four decades settled at the peak of popularity and among the most popular rock stars can make your environment full of sycophants, but also critics, and you have to know how to listen to those who are really going to tell you the truth, as Jon Bon Jovi has confessed that it happened to him with his wife, Dorothea Hurley, “the one who tells the truth the most,” who was the one who made him realize that his voice “was broken.”
The obvious problem that the vocalist and leader of Bon Jovi has had to face in recent years with his voice has ended up leading the New Jersey native to go through serious surgery to be able to move forward with his career, something that has been a topic of conversation with UCR during the interview granted shortly after “Legendary”, the first preview of Bon Jovi’s new album, ‘Forever’ (which will arrive on June 7th), will be released.
“I tried everything, everything, to be able to be me on that stage,” Jon begins to say about the final date of the 2022 tour in Nashville. “I went out that night in Nashville, and it was the last of fifteen shows. I was like, “That was good, that was pretty good. It was good. The public is going crazy. It’s okay.” But the one who tells the truth the most, my wife, told me, ‘It wasn’t right.'”
Well aware that at this point few can handle the audience of a show better than him, he had to realize that the essential, his voice, was what was failing: “I can make the audience do what I want. Turns out I’m Jon Bon Jovi, I know how to do it. But, motherfucker, my voice was broken. And I had to go find someone for something that’s not usual in vocal surgery, and it was scary. So these last two years have been that journey.”
That journey will also be part of the long-awaited documentary series ‘Thank You, Goodnight’, which will premiere on April 26 (in Spain through Disney+) recounting the four decades of Bon Jovi’s history with interviews with all the protagonists, including Richie Sambora, whose return to the band continues to be a topic of discussion without the door being completely closed.
