Taylor Dayne, the singer who is perhaps best known for her albums, “Tell It to My Heart,” and “Can’t Fight Fate,” talked candidly to Parade about her recent battle with colon cancer, as reported in a story on pennlive.com
The story indicated that the 63-year-old is now cancer free, and she’s working on new music.
However, the account added that initially, when Dayne received her diagnosis back in July 2022, she said she traveled to Hawaii “to die.”
“I was at the Blue Note in Hawaii because I said I’m going to go there to die,”she told Parade. “(I said), ‘I want to stay in Hawaii. I’ll go there, and I promise you… Let me play the Blue Note. I’ll walk on stage. I’ll sit at night in my little stool, and I promise you, I’ll go back and forth (to the hospital there)’.”
Parade went on to explain that Dayne stated she had 10 inches of her colon removed, and inasmuch as the surgery was successful, she nonetheless contracted an infection that forced her to remain in the hospital during the weeks that followed.
She also confided to Parade that instead of dying, she stumbled across the “most loving, helping, caring” people in the Aloha state who helped her figure out her purpose “more than I could have ever figured out my purpose.”
And, as of this writing, her health has been restored and Dayne’s stronger than ever.
“I started new music about a month ago,” she continued in the Parade interview. “Big, big summer plans for August, September. The new music we’re working on. I think an album’s actually in the works. I spoke to my management about it, and we’re getting such interesting feedback that we might put (out) a lot more.”