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Catch Me If You Can is a Tony Award-Winning musical now playing on Broadway. Personally, I hope it has the longest run of any show in history because it is everything a Broadway musical should be: great music, great singing, great dancing, fascinating plot line, and energy, energy, energy! Catch Me If You Can starts off with a blast of energy and never stops throughout the entire show. For those ...

Sing Like You Speak™ Students ROCK! Teaching is such a privilege for me. I love teaching – rather be teaching than doing anything else. And my students are the best. They may not be famous – yet – they are good artists and musicians and I want you to join me in cheering them on! Here’s the news: A certain voice student, who shall remain nameless at the moment, is negotiat...

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is a sensual, soulful song that I first heard years ago sung by Roberta Flack. I’m working on the song right now myself to do in a show so I went onto facebook to listen to different renditions. There I sound, besides Robert Flack, Leona Lewis’ version of the song. There is a big difference between the two women’s singing style – how the...

I have the privilege of living in the greatest city in the world – New York City. Any night in the week you can see and hear top performances: singers, actors, musicians. Performers that are in the news or performers you haven’t heard of for years. The latter was the case last night. The 92nd Street Y has a series, Lyrics and Lyricists. This show honored lyricists/script writers Betty ...

There’s a saying, ‘Everything old is new again.’ Lip syncing is nothing new. The difference is that years ago no singing star would ever have thought of lip syncing instead of singing on stage. A singer loves to sing, loves the power of the vibrations moving though you out to the audience. This video is a different, you might say ‘twisted’ way to use lip sync. The re...

A few blogs ago I told you the story of my journey as a singer – from Disaster to Master. Seriously, that’s just how it happened. The next chapter of this singer’s story is about sharing all I have learned as a singer and singing teacher with as many people as possible. Technology offers a multitude of platforms to reach out to any and all who are yearning to take the lid off the...

Facebook is becoming, for me, a place to learn about new faces in the music biz. This face you’d never see in a crowd and think, there goes a great singer. Hold on tight and listen to this! I loved the subtitle on this video when it was posted to my Facebook page which I will clean up: American Idol, eat your heart out! This is a singer. No glitz, no glam, no hairspray, just talent!!! ...

I’m sure some of you have seen the racist video put up on YouTube by a UCLA student. If not, take a look. This girl’s words are offensive beyond measure. But out of the ignorance rises a young Asian-American musician, Jimmy Wong with a brilliant come back that puts Alexandra’s comments in perspective. Enjoy! Cheers to creativity! Jimmy Wong might solve a lot of the worlds probl...

Life presents so many challenges! As an artist you need to learn to trust your instrument and your music. You have to meet the challenges the music biz presents to you. Now try to imagine meeting all those challenges and building that trust in the dark. Permanently in the dark – blind. Please watch this wonderful 14 minute documentary about a student of mine, Frank Senior a terrific jazz si...

Chris Medina American Idol has never impressed me as a platform that really helps singers become pop stars. In the past I have seen so much cruelty on the part of the judges and the way the show is structured to make fools of less-than-great performers. A friend sent me a video that has changed my mind. American Idol does have a heart after all. Watch this video and I think you’ll agree t...