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Going home for the holidays? Having the family in? Cooking, cleaning, buying presents, wrapping presents, family feuds! STRESS! Stress can end up right in your voice – and usually does. Anger loves to live in the jaw and back of the neck. Frustration loves to hang out in the throat. Fatigue takes hold of your shoulders. To reduce the involvement of your voice in the holiday madness, notice...

On A Clear Day is now playing on Broadway in New York City, starring Harry Connick Jr. This revival that’s not a revival is sadly rewritten in one of the most convoluted re-dos ever. I kept shaking my head trying to make sense of the choices made by Michael Mayer who re-wrote and directs the show. If you’d like a full review of the show, Back Stage provides a scathing one http://bit.ly...

People are always asking me why I call my vocal method Sing Like You Speak. And of course, does it really work? Yes, it can make a star out of anyone who has the drive to be a singing star. This is NOT traditional vocal training. Sing Like You Speak™ is vocal technique for contemporary singers based in the latest medical, musical and therapeutic research. It is NOT Speech Level Singing. It̵...

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...

We’re now on the 5th practice of highly successful singers. First of all, let’s take a look at practices 1-4 which I go into detail about in my previous blogs. #1 Everyone has a great voice inside. Everyone. It’s a gift. The human body is the most perfect of all musical instruments. When most people sing, they believe that it is an extra-ordianry task that only the stars know how to...

In my last post, I gave you the first practice of highly successful singers that is that you have the perfect musical instrument within you. The human body is the perfect musical instrument and when you believe that fact and trust the your body will produce sound simply and naturally, then you are half way to singing with freedom. Practice #2 is body alignment or posture. Yes, darn it all, your mo...

Parents, kids and mature singers need this information. I love to teach voice. For me there’s nothing more rewarding than teaching someone how to find their voice, how to find that power and joy. Changing someone’s life by giving you back your voice is my passion. Yes, I said returning your voice to you. Training you to use your voice as it was created to be used naturally. I had a student...

Attention: Parents, kids, mature singers and karaoke lovers. Justin Bieber I love to teach voice. For me there’s nothing more rewarding than teaching someone how to find their voice, how to find that power and joy. Changing someone’s life by giving you back your voice is my passion. Yes, I said returning your voice to you. Training you to use your voice as it was created to be used naturally....

Vocal damage can ruin a singer’s career. Vocal cord nodules are benign (noncancerous) growths on both vocal cords that are caused by vocal abuse. If you get nodes they prevent the vocal folds from approximating, or vibrating together in a normal way to create sound. Sally and Student Unfortunately, when a singer learns that they have damage is often the point when they seek my help as a voca...

Singers who experience jaw tension – that’s probably most of us – not only have the physical pain association with jaw tension, but also the tension that is added to your voice that doesn’t sound all that cool. But what’s a singer to do? If you read my two previous blogs, you would have read about a meditative breathing exercise that I begins all of my students’...