Chloe Temtchine is an American singer-songwriter.

Early life

Temtchine grew up in New York City. She studied at

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, in Boston, Massachusetts. She started singing when she was six years old. At the time, on Sundays, her father would bring her to a

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, where she was exposed to

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Career

Her debut album, ''Between Day & Dream'', was released in 2009. Temtchine won the 2011 Avon National and International Songwriting Competition with her song "Step Up," which was used in an Avon television commercial. She performed on ''

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'' as a backup vocalist for musical guest

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, sang in a 2012 commercial for the 100th anniversary of

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, and was featured on NY-1 News, with "Where in The Truck is Chloe." After Temtchine was diagnosed with pulmonary venoocclusive disease in 2013, she continued to write music as "an escape from thinking about my condition" and "because I didn't know how much time I had left." Her 2015 album, ''Be Brave'', was produced by

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. It was described by the ''

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'' as "a moving collection of pop songs that document her struggle for survival, but also her recovery." Temtchine wrote the title track in 2014 after she was released from

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. Amy Carlberg of ''

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'' magazine wrote that the track was "twangy and energetic, and springboards off the bluegrass and

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-laden sounds that have been ruling the pop charts". Over 150,000 copies of the album were downloaded within the first 90 days of its release.

Health issues

Beginning in 2008, Temtchine suffered a series of medical issues, including

shortness of breath Shortness of breath (SOB), also medically known as dyspnea (in AmE) or dyspnoea (in BrE), is an uncomfortable feeling of not being able to breathe well enough. The American Thoracic Society defines it as "a subjective experience of breathing disc ...

and onstage coughing fits. In February 2013, she was hospitalized with

congestive heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome, a group of signs and symptoms caused by an impairment of the heart's blood pumping function. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, excessive fatigue, a ...

and difficulty breathing. She was diagnosed with a rare disorder, pulmonary venoocclusive disease (PVOD), in addition to severe pulmonary hypertension. In August 2020, Temtchine suffered a

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, was in a coma, and spent 21 days on

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before receiving a double

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. She required the continuous use of an

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that was connected to a nasal breathing tube, and in February 2021, Chloe (who sings with a paralyzed vocal cord) performed live for the first time since the transplant.

References

External links

Official website
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April 22, 2014 article
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