Huey Lewis details how he 'can't enjoy music' anymore because he is 'basically deaf'

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Set us as preferred Huey Lewis shared just how much his relationship to music has changed in a recent podcast interview.“I’m basically deaf,” the former lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News said in an episode of the “Inside of You” podcast released Tuesday.

“My life has changed immeasurably.I can’t hear music.

Music is not part of my life anymore, which is a hard pill to swallow.” Lewis explained that he uses a cochlear implant to help him hear and understand speech, but he is unable to distinguish pitch because of the way the device operates.“My cochlear implant, it breaks everything down into digital bits so I can understand,” he said.

“Speech is easier to listen to than music.Music occurs in all frequencies, with overtones and harmonics and everything.

It comes at you in a lot of different frequencies, so it distorts for me ...It makes pitch impossible to hear.” Music A staple of ‘80s radio and MTV, Huey Lewis returns with a new album.

But he may never perform again, due to an inner-ear condition.”The Power of Love” singer explained that because of this, he can no longer enjoy music.“When I cook or I have people over for dinner, I always used to play them music,” he said.

“I have a great collection of old big band stuff and old New Orleans jazz and I don’t play it at all anymore....

It’s weird.I can hear the beat, I know what’s going on.

But I can’t enjoy it.”“Music used to be so much fun,” he added.But “it just ends up being frustrating for me when I can’t enjoy it.

I can’t feel the warmth.” Lewis previously discussed his struggles with hearing loss with The Times.The “Hip to Be Square” singer said his Meniere’s disease diagnosis in early 2018 was “brutal.” “When it first happened, I thought I might as well kill myself,” Lewis said in the 2...