News about Kyra Smith

This is the emotional moment a young singer with PoTS Syndrome left the judges stunned with her breathtaking rendition of Golden Slumbers by The Beatles on The Voice UK on Saturday. Kyra Smith, 20, from Manchester, wowed the coaches with her audition and earned two chair turns from McFly duo Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, and Sir Tom Jones. POTS, or Postural tachycardia syndrome is when your heart rate increases very quickly after getting up from sitting or lying down.

Since rinsing her contact lens case in tap water, Kyra Smith, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, says she was left blind in one eye. She had acanthamoeba keratitis, a vision-threatening cornealitis disease, in her left eye in March 2021, and within four weeks, she had gone completely blind in that eye. (right)