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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...

Bill Cosby used to do a comedy routine about popular music. When he was a kid, his parents were always yelling at him to, ‘ Turn that crap down!’ Then when he became the parent of 5 children, he found himself always yelling, ‘Turn that crap down!’ It has occurred to me that I am now in the stage of life where a lot of popular music sounds like crap to me. I was just listen...

Jaw tension is the enemy of singing with freedom. But how do you let go when working on the computer tightens the jaw, and driving a car and dealing with everyday stress enters the jaw muscles and grips them hard? In my last blog I shared a technique to use when going to sleep at night. Say to yourself, ‘breathing in I release my jaw, breathing out I release my jaw.’ The Sing Like You ...

I am lucky to have a very talented and insightful student – many of them actaully – one in particular who helps me film my videos for YouTube and for my online singer training site. Those of you who are members of have seen his handsome face many times in the videos that show me working with a private student. He requested that I make this video. This is a bit of my story – my...

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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...

As an Vocal Acting Coach, I work with some wonderfully talented actors – most of whom are a bit terrified of singing. But as all actors know being able to sing a song or even talk a song means getting much more work. Actors need to be able to at least pull off a song and at best belt out a great song. Developing your singing voice also develops your vocal instrument for other stage/screen wo...

These are the top 5 singing quotes for this month- ENJOY!!! #1. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou #2.  “Music is the purest form of art… therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music… The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. The...