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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Robin essentially was Stevie's assistant during the Rumours era. Not sure about during Tusk. Stevie would often call Robin her "speech therapist" though I think real speech therapists would balk at that as she had no formal training or credentials in speech therapy; it was just a title Stevie gave her because she helped Stevie do her steam routine and various other routines to try and preserve her voice on the road..

Mick mentions Robin during the 1977 tour:
There were also concerns for Stevie's instrument. Singing with her throat rather than her diaphragm, she began to have problems, and her voice changed into a lower register. Was this caused by overwork? I don't know, but we took her friend Robin Anderson, a voice therapist, on the road with us to try to train Stevie to use her voice differently. But it was like trying to tame a wild thing. Every night, at the climactic end of "Rhiannon," Stevie would rip her voice to shreds. It was a sacrifice she chose to make for her art.

And he also mentions her during Mirage days:
The U.S. Festival was also the last time I saw Robin Anderson.
Robin had been Stevie Nicks's best friend for years and years, and I had known and loved her ever since the wild days in Sausalito recording Rumours. Robin was a voice therapist, and had often accompanied Fleetwood Mac on the road to work on preserving Stevie's voice. One of the most beautiful and beloved members of our extended family, she was married to Kim Anderson, a Warner Bros. promotion guy. She had also been ill with leukemia for the past two years, beginning around the time of the Tusk tour. Although she had been in and out of hospital, and against the advice of her doctors, she became pregnant and was determined to bear her child before she left this earth. The baby boy she bore definitely shortened her young life, but that was part of the heroic nature of Robin's determination.