diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3921cd84..72862191 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ the frozen-backend fallback mirror it for their toolchains.
 - "Ready" now requires the deep health probe (a working database-backed route), not just the identity probe — a backend whose install broke underneath can no longer be announced up while every real request fails (#1548)
 - Supervisor restarts after repeat crashes now back off (immediate, then 5s, then 15s) instead of respawning back-to-back, so a tight crash loop can't burn the whole restart budget in seconds (#1548)
 
+- Renaming, deleting, or revoking consent on a voice (and starring/clearing history, recording exports) now live-updates every open tab again — the sync routes' WebSocket events were silently dropped, which could look like "all my voices are gone" (#1561) — thanks @paoloantinori!
+
 ## [0.5.0] — 2026-08-13
 
 **Highlights**
diff --git a/backend/core/event_bus.py b/backend/core/event_bus.py
index baa3b995..74fd662c 100644
--- a/backend/core/event_bus.py
+++ b/backend/core/event_bus.py
@@ -23,9 +23,17 @@
 _listeners: list[asyncio.Queue] = []
 _lock = asyncio.Lock()
 
+# The loop that serves /ws/events, captured on first use. Sync FastAPI
+# endpoints (rename/delete profile, revoke consent) run in threadpool workers
+# where `asyncio.get_running_loop()` raises, which used to silently drop their
+# events — the UI then never refetched the voice list (#1158 class).
+_serving_loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop | None = None
+
 
 async def subscribe() -> asyncio.Queue:
     """Register a new listener. Returns a Queue that receives event dicts."""
+    global _serving_loop
+    _serving_loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
     q: asyncio.Queue = asyncio.Queue(maxsize=64)
     async with _lock:
         _listeners.append(q)
@@ -56,12 +64,34 @@ def emit(kind: str, payload: dict[str, Any] | None = None) -> None:
         **(payload or {}),
     }
     event_str = json.dumps(event)
+    loop = asyncio.get_running_loop() if _on_event_loop() else _serving_loop
+    if loop is None:
+        # No serving loop yet — nobody to notify; dropping is correct.
+        logger.debug("No event loop — event dropped: %s", kind)
+        return
     try:
-        loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
-        loop.create_task(_broadcast(event_str))
+        if _on_event_loop():
+            loop.create_task(_broadcast(event_str))
+        else:
+            # Threadpool worker (sync endpoint body): the only thread-safe way in.
+            loop.call_soon_threadsafe(_schedule_broadcast, event_str)
     except RuntimeError:
-        # No event loop running (unlikely in FastAPI context but safe)
-        logger.debug("No event loop — event dropped: %s", kind)
+        # The serving loop closed between capture and use (app shutdown).
+        logger.debug("Event loop closed — event dropped: %s", kind)
+
+
+def _on_event_loop() -> bool:
+    """True when called from the running event loop (async-context emit)."""
+    try:
+        asyncio.get_running_loop()
+    except RuntimeError:
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
+def _schedule_broadcast(event_str: str) -> None:
+    """Run `_broadcast` on the serving loop; called via call_soon_threadsafe."""
+    asyncio.get_running_loop().create_task(_broadcast(event_str))
 
 
 async def _broadcast(event_str: str) -> None:
@@ -73,11 +103,11 @@ async def _broadcast(event_str: str) -> None:
                 q.put_nowait(event_str)
             except asyncio.QueueFull:
                 # Slow consumer — drop oldest, then push. Not a race (#1163):
-                # every queue op runs on the single event loop, and there is
-                # no await between the QueueFull and this get_nowait/put_nowait
-                # pair — no consumer can interleave, so get_nowait cannot raise
-                # QueueEmpty here. emit() from a foreign thread drops the event
-                # before ever touching a queue (see the RuntimeError branch).
+                # every queue op runs on the single event loop (a foreign
+                # thread's emit() hands off via call_soon_threadsafe first),
+                # and there is no await between the QueueFull and this
+                # get_nowait/put_nowait pair — no consumer can interleave, so
+                # get_nowait cannot raise QueueEmpty here.
                 try:
                     q.get_nowait()
                     q.put_nowait(event_str)
diff --git a/frontend/src/hooks/useAppData.js b/frontend/src/hooks/useAppData.js
index 815cf1cc..f4fe496d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/hooks/useAppData.js
+++ b/frontend/src/hooks/useAppData.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useState, useEffect, useLayoutEffect, useCallback, useRef } from 'react';
+import { useState, useEffect, useLayoutEffect, useRef } from 'react';
 import { useAppStore } from '../store';
 import { listProfiles } from '../api/profiles';
 import { listHistory } from '../api/generate';
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { useModelStatus } from '../api/hooks';
 import useRealtimeEvents from './useRealtimeEvents';
 import { mergeDescribedAttrs } from '../utils/voiceInstruct';
 import { sanitizeOmniUi } from '../utils/omniUiSchema';
+import { retryInitialLoad } from '../utils/initialLoadRetry';
 import { queueJsonWrite } from '../utils/coalescedJsonStorage';
 
 /**
@@ -163,43 +164,38 @@ export default function useAppData() {
   }, [modelStatus, modelSubStage, modelDetail, modelError, modelProgress]);
 
   // ── Data loading callbacks ──
-  // Failures keep the previous list (better than blanking the UI), but are
-  // logged so "my voices/history vanished" reports carry a cause (#1158).
-  const loadProfiles = useCallback(async () => {
-    try {
-      setProfiles(await listProfiles());
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.warn('Failed to load voice profiles:', e);
-    }
-  }, []);
-  const loadHistory = useCallback(async () => {
-    try {
-      setHistory(await listHistory());
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.warn('Failed to load generation history:', e);
-    }
-  }, []);
-  const loadDubHistory = useCallback(async () => {
-    try {
-      setDubHistory(await listDubHistory());
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.warn('Failed to load dub history:', e);
-    }
-  }, []);
-  const loadProjects = useCallback(async () => {
-    try {
-      setStudioProjects(await listProjects());
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.warn('Failed to load projects:', e);
-    }
-  }, []);
-  const loadExportHistory = useCallback(async () => {
-    try {
-      setExportHistory(await listExportHistory());
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.warn('Failed to load export history:', e);
-    }
-  }, []);
+  // WS-triggered reloads swallow failures: keeping the previous list is
+  // better than blanking the UI, and the warn gives "my voices vanished"
+  // reports a cause (#1158). The INITIAL load passes `{ rethrow: true }` so
+  // retryInitialLoad can retry — there is no previous list to keep yet.
+  // Each loader is last-write-wins by invocation order: a slow in-flight
+  // request (the initial retry loop overlaps freely with WS reloads) must
+  // not overwrite the fresher list a later reload already applied. Plain
+  // per-render closures over stable imports/setters — a useRef-free module
+  // would need hooks inside a helper, which rules-of-hooks forbids.
+  const loadersRef = useRef({ profiles: 0, history: 0, dub: 0, projects: 0, exports: 0 });
+  const makeLoader =
+    (key, fetch, set, label) =>
+    async ({ rethrow } = {}) => {
+      const gen = ++loadersRef.current[key];
+      try {
+        const data = await fetch();
+        if (gen === loadersRef.current[key]) set(data);
+      } catch (e) {
+        console.warn(`Failed to load ${label}:`, e);
+        if (rethrow) throw e;
+      }
+    };
+  const loadProfiles = makeLoader('profiles', listProfiles, setProfiles, 'voice profiles');
+  const loadHistory = makeLoader('history', listHistory, setHistory, 'generation history');
+  const loadDubHistory = makeLoader('dub', listDubHistory, setDubHistory, 'dub history');
+  const loadProjects = makeLoader('projects', listProjects, setStudioProjects, 'projects');
+  const loadExportHistory = makeLoader(
+    'exports',
+    listExportHistory,
+    setExportHistory,
+    'export history',
+  );
 
   // ── WebSocket real-time updates ──
   useRealtimeEvents({
@@ -212,10 +208,10 @@ export default function useAppData() {
 
   // ── Initial data load with backend retry ──
   useEffect(() => {
-    let cancelled = false;
+    const cancelledRef = { cancelled: false };
     const loadAll = async () => {
       let delay = 1000;
-      while (!cancelled) {
+      while (!cancelledRef.cancelled) {
         try {
           await apiModelStatus();
           break;
@@ -223,12 +219,16 @@ export default function useAppData() {
         await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, delay));
         delay = Math.min(delay * 2, 4000);
       }
-      if (cancelled) return;
-      loadProfiles();
-      loadHistory();
-      loadDubHistory();
-      loadProjects();
-      loadExportHistory();
+      if (cancelledRef.cancelled) return;
+      // Initial loads retry until FIRST success (#1158 class): a later
+      // (WS-triggered) reload failure keeps the previous list, but the first
+      // load has no previous list to keep — one transient failure used to
+      // leave the panel empty, which read as "my voices are gone".
+      retryInitialLoad(() => loadProfiles({ rethrow: true }), cancelledRef);
+      retryInitialLoad(() => loadHistory({ rethrow: true }), cancelledRef);
+      retryInitialLoad(() => loadDubHistory({ rethrow: true }), cancelledRef);
+      retryInitialLoad(() => loadProjects({ rethrow: true }), cancelledRef);
+      retryInitialLoad(() => loadExportHistory({ rethrow: true }), cancelledRef);
     };
     loadAll();
     // Restore local UI state
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ export default function useAppData() {
       setOmniUiRestoreComplete(true);
     }
     return () => {
-      cancelled = true;
+      cancelledRef.cancelled = true;
     };
   }, []);
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/test/initialLoadRetry.test.js b/frontend/src/test/initialLoadRetry.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3cd0dd63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/test/initialLoadRetry.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { retryInitialLoad } from '../utils/initialLoadRetry';
+
+// #1158 class: the initial data loads (profiles/history/…) ran exactly once
+// after the backend became reachable. A transient failure on that single call
+// (backend restarting, WS reconnect window, a 502 from the LAN gate) left the
+// voices panel empty with no retry — which reads to users as "all my voices
+// are gone". The load itself already keeps the previous list on later (WS)
+// reloads; only the INITIAL load must retry until first success.
+
+describe('retryInitialLoad (#1158 class)', () => {
+  it('retries a failing loader until it succeeds', async () => {
+    let calls = 0;
+    const loader = vi.fn(async () => {
+      calls += 1;
+      if (calls < 3) throw new Error('transient');
+    });
+    await retryInitialLoad(loader, { baseDelayMs: 1 });
+    expect(calls).toBe(3);
+  });
+
+  it('does not retry after first success', async () => {
+    const loader = vi.fn(async () => {});
+    await retryInitialLoad(loader, { baseDelayMs: 1 });
+    expect(loader).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('stops retrying when cancelled', async () => {
+    const loader = vi.fn(async () => {
+      throw new Error('down');
+    });
+    const opts = { baseDelayMs: 1 };
+    const p = retryInitialLoad(loader, opts);
+    opts.cancelled = true;
+    await p;
+    // At most one attempt plus whatever was already in flight; the point is
+    // it terminates instead of looping forever after cancellation.
+    expect(loader.mock.calls.length).toBeLessThan(5);
+  });
+
+  // #1158 wiring contract: the initial load must pass loaders that REJECT on
+  // failure. useAppData's loadProfiles-style loaders swallow errors by design
+  // (WS reloads keep the previous list); if the initial-load call site ever
+  // stops using { rethrow: true }, the retry helper resolves on attempt one
+  // and the fix is silently inert again (skeptic finding F1).
+  it('integration: useAppData wires rethrowing loaders into the retry', async () => {
+    const { readFileSync } = await import('node:fs');
+    // jsdom replaces the global URL; Node's fileURLToPath needs a REAL node:
+    // URL instance, so build one from the specifier's pathname directly.
+    const nodeUrl = await import('node:url');
+    const NodeURL = nodeUrl.URL;
+    const hookPath = new NodeURL('../hooks/useAppData.js', import.meta.url).pathname;
+    const src = readFileSync(hookPath, 'utf8');
+    const initialBlock = src.slice(src.indexOf('retryInitialLoad('));
+    for (const loader of [
+      'loadProfiles',
+      'loadHistory',
+      'loadDubHistory',
+      'loadProjects',
+      'loadExportHistory',
+    ]) {
+      expect(initialBlock).toContain(`${loader}({ rethrow: true })`);
+    }
+    // and the loader factory must actually rethrow when asked
+    expect(src).toContain('if (rethrow) throw e;');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/initialLoadRetry.js b/frontend/src/utils/initialLoadRetry.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a300eb1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/initialLoadRetry.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/**
+ * retryInitialLoad — run an initial data load until first success.
+ *
+ * The INITIAL app load differs from later (WS-triggered) reloads: on reload a
+ * failure keeps the previous list, but on first load there IS no previous
+ * list, so a single transient failure left the panel empty forever and read
+ * to users as "my voices are gone" (#1158 class). Retry with backoff until
+ * the first success; afterwards the caller's normal keep-previous-list
+ * behavior takes over.
+ *
+ * `opts.cancelled` is the caller's mount-cancellation flag — set it to true
+ * and any pending wait resolves without another attempt.
+ */
+export async function retryInitialLoad(loader, opts = {}) {
+  const baseDelayMs = opts.baseDelayMs ?? 500;
+  const maxDelayMs = opts.maxDelayMs ?? 4000;
+  let delay = 0; // first attempt is immediate; only failures pay the backoff
+  for (;;) {
+    if (opts.cancelled) return;
+    try {
+      await loader();
+      return;
+    } catch {
+      // transient — retry
+    }
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, delay || baseDelayMs));
+    delay = Math.min((delay || baseDelayMs) * 2, maxDelayMs);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/test_event_bus_thread_emit.py b/tests/test_event_bus_thread_emit.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..49b9960c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_event_bus_thread_emit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+"""event_bus.emit must deliver from threadpool threads (sync FastAPI endpoints).
+
+PUT /profiles/{id} (rename), DELETE /profiles/{id}, and DELETE .../consent are
+sync endpoints, so Starlette runs their bodies in a threadpool worker with no
+running event loop. event_bus.emit() used to call asyncio.get_running_loop()
+and silently drop the event (DEBUG log only) from exactly those threads, which
+reached users as "I renamed a voice and the list went stale / looked empty"
+(the frontend only refetches the voice list on the WS "profiles" event).
+
+The test drives the real failure shape: subscribe on the serving loop, call
+emit() from a plain thread (as the threadpool does), and assert the event
+arrives in the listener queue.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import json
+import threading
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def bus():
+    """Resolve the module per test — binding it at collection lets another
+    suite's `sys.modules` rebinding make this exercise a different object."""
+    return __import__("core.event_bus", fromlist=["emit"])
+
+
+def test_emit_from_thread_reaches_serving_loop(bus, tmp_path):
+    loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
+    received: list[str] = []
+    started = threading.Event()
+    done = threading.Event()
+
+    def run_loop():
+        asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
+        loop.run_until_complete(_serve(bus, received, started, done))
+
+    t = threading.Thread(target=run_loop, name="test-serving-loop")
+    t.start()
+    try:
+        assert started.wait(2.0), "serving loop never subscribed"
+
+        # The bug's exact context: no running loop in this thread, like a
+        # Starlette threadpool worker executing a sync endpoint body.
+        def sync_endpoint_body():
+            bus.emit("profiles", {"action": "updated", "id": "abc123"})
+
+        worker = threading.Thread(target=sync_endpoint_body, name="threadpool-worker")
+        worker.start()
+        worker.join(2.0)
+
+        assert done.wait(2.0), (
+            "emit() from a threadpool thread was dropped — the WS 'profiles' "
+            "event never reached the serving loop's listener queue"
+        )
+        payload = json.loads(received[0])
+        assert payload["kind"] == "profiles"
+        assert payload["action"] == "updated"
+        assert payload["id"] == "abc123"
+    finally:
+        loop.call_soon_threadsafe(done.set)
+        t.join(2.0)
+        loop.close()
+
+
+async def _serve(bus, received: list[str], started: threading.Event, done: threading.Event):
+    q = await bus.subscribe()
+    started.set()
+    # Await the event itself (no sleep-polling): a failure surfaces as
+    # asyncio.TimeoutError, which fails the test with a clear traceback.
+    try:
+        received.append(await asyncio.wait_for(q.get(), 2.0))
+    finally:
+        done.set()
+        await bus.unsubscribe(q)