Muni Long is ready to step back into the spotlight.
Six months after undergoing a life-saving double lung transplant, the two-time Grammy winner is returning with “Richest,” an intimate new single that marks her first solo release since recovering from a health crisis that nearly claimed her life.
Long, who was diagnosed with lupus in 2014, contracted pneumonia during the Northeast leg of Brandy and Monica’s The Boy Is Mine Tour, forcing her to withdraw from the final show dates.
After returning home, she awoke in a hospital bed to devastating news: doctors told her she had just a week to live unless she underwent the transplant.
“My jaw dropped. Literally. I was like, ‘That’s rude.’ But they were kind of like, ‘This is not a joke. You need to make a choice. You can either go to hospice or you can get these lungs.’” Long told Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts earlier this week.
