Shaindy Plotzker At Kings Theater 2025

Lighting Director & Programmer Shaindy Plotzker At Kings Theater.

Ask anyone who’s heard singer and composer Shaindy Plotzker perform, and they’ll agree it’s ironic that doctors predicted that this 25-year-old woman who captivates and inspires audiences across the country would be born hearing impaired.

Shaindy’s mother’s pregnancy took a dangerous turn when she contracted antibiotic-resistant pyelonephritis with MRSA. And while fortunately there was a treatment protocol, it had a few potential side effects, among them fetal hearing loss.

Her mother was no stranger to challenge. Just 20 years old, she already had a toddler with special needs. Now facing the prospect of a hearing-impaired child, she cried through the remainder of the pregnancy.

It turned out to be an unfounded worry. When Shaindy was born, she passed her neonatal hearing tests. She did experience slight hearing loss (which has since resolved), but isn’t sure whether it’s congenital (due to the fluid she always had in her ears as a child) or caused by the loud music she blasted as a teen. “It’s probably a combination,” she muses.