Singer has voice back after brain surgery to remove tumor making her 'tone deaf'

A singer-songwriter was diagnosed with a rare epilepsy triggered by music after she went tone deaf - and had to sing through brain surgery to cure her while retaining her abilities.

Kira Iaconetti, 25, from Lynden, Washington State, USA says a marble-sized brain tumor caused her to suffer from musicogenic epilepsy - where seizures are triggered by music.

After three years of medical investigations, doctors found a tumour on her right temporal lobe.

She sang and played guitar so surgeons could check what parts of her brain could be touched.