During an interview with Loudwire, Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson explained how cancer affected his voice.
Here’s what Bruce said:
“After doing three or four months with the legacy tour, I mean we don’t detune. We’re doing all the songs, we’re doing the hills and all the rest of it and trooper. So you get all the original keys you know, and I’m hitting all the same notes I used to hit 40 years ago. So, I mean the tone of the voices got a bit thicker, it’s got a bit fatter. It’s more robust if you were gonna say.
”I am definitely in the tenor sort of range. But obviously, there are different types of tenor like a lyric tenor which has a very light and fiddly type top-end voice and, there’s a robust tenor which can almost go down into a baritone. One of my favourite tenors is Ronnie Dio, and Ronnie was kind of a hybrid. Obviously, as he got older, his voice was much more robust, but if you hear him on some early stuff in particular some of the stuff that he did pre Rainbow.”