Sienna Spiro thought her life was over. Two years ago, when she was just 18, a doctor informed her she had nodules on her vocal cords, leaving her with what she calls a “raspy, husky voice.” Her dreams of becoming an accomplished singer seemed to die then and there. The London-born chanteuse, who was in Los Angeles at the time, sat outside an Alfred neighborhood coffee shop sobbing. “I was crying my eyes out,” Spiro says in her unmistakable British accent.