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Talking with a student yesterday during her lesson about using breath release to keep the voice healthy, I had to mention Audra McDonald as a great example. Here’s what I mean: when you sing a word that begins with a vowel, such as “I”, which you do quite often, the tendency is to start the “I” in the throat. When you do so, you get a harsh attack on the “IR...

Bodacious: unrestrained by convention or propriety. Being your own person – claiming your power as a human being with a voice that must be heard! If you learned something from this video, that means you can learn how to sing online! Check out SingLikeYouSpeak.com and get free lessons! ...

When a star is born, the star is sometimes the last person to know that they have star potential. This is the truth with my student Helga. Helga and I, Sally Morgan, have worked together for about 1.5 years, through vocal damage, through the writing of some of her songs, through the recording of her CD in Nashville, then preparing her for the CD release party. I adore Helga as a human being and l...

High notes are impressive and feel soooo good to sing when you know how. For most singers though, there is a lot of fear and tension about singing high notes. Here’s a video I made for YouTube that’s been getting a lot of positive comments from viewers. Enjoy! Hope you learned something from the video – hope it was helpful. If you did, then it proves that you can learn to sing ...

A couple days ago, I interviewed the brilliant, warm and extremely talented Steven Lutvak. Our conversation is a wealth of information and inspiration for all musicians, singers, songwriters and performers so I must share it with you. I met Steven about 10 yrs ago when my vocal method, Sing Like You Speak™, was just a seed of an idea that was forming in the back of my mind. He epitomizes Sing Li...

It’s fascinating to watch an audience as they watch a performer. You can learn an awful lot about what works on stage by the audience’s reaction. Charlie Sheen was booed off the stage here in NYC recently – and rightfully so. As a vocal trainer, I spend a lot of time as an audience member at my students’ gigs. I watch the audience as much as I watch my student. My job is t...

Adele is one of the best pop artists we have. Love, love, love her music and her voice. Unfortunately, she has some vocal damage and has not learned to use her voice so that the damage can heal. This is a tragedy and so unnecessary because with good vocal technique, she would have no vocal problems. Seriously, I don’t understand why a very successful singer like Adele would NOT get good vo...

Singing can feel like lifting and struggling to find your way out of a tangled mess of netting that somehow got wrapped around your body. The more you strain against the netting, the less progress you make toward freedom. Usually this type of singing challenge begins way back in time with an idea – one you are not aware of – that singing is hard work. The strain and struggle you think are supp...

The voice is mastered inside the body, your vocal instrument. The result of that mastery is resonates outside the instrument, to the audience. This is not traditional vocal training. Sing Like You Speak™ is based on the fact that the body is a perfect musical instrument and is rooted in the latest vocal, medical and acoustical research. It is the only fully codified contemporary vocal method co...

In a workshop at an international vocal conference, a woman presented her new vocal method for the audience. When she demonstrated how to teach diaphragmatic breathing, she divided it into 10 distinct steps. Can you imagine having to think of all 10 steps every time you inhale? Your band would finish the song long before you got to the hook! Here is a Singer Quick Fix to help you with Diaphragmat...