Protect and Improve Your Vocal Health for Long-Term Singing Success
Vocal health is essential for singers who want longevity, consistency, and freedom in their voice. This section offers expert guidance on preventing vocal strain, recovering from fatigue, and understanding how your technique affects the way your voice feels.
Whether you’re dealing with hoarseness, tightness, or recurring loss of range, these articles help you develop a sustainable, healthy singing practice grounded in real technique—not gimmicks.
Well, what a week this has turned out to be, not just for those in the UK but all over the world. It’s been great to work with everyone online, especially for those who are brand new to online lessons. As many of us are doing our bit by staying at home, I thought as […]
5 Reasons Why Sleep Boosts Your Singing, Your Brain, and Your Body I suffered from insomnia for about 2 years. More specifically I suffered with a type of sleep onset insomnia (problems with getting to sleep) called ‘sleep anxiety’. In short, it means you get physiologically and/or mentally stressed about going to bed. It can
Something I encounter a lot is the phenomenon of the vocal professional who ‘all of a sudden’ finds themselves having voice problems. Here’s what normally happens… At first, the issues are usually shrugged off. Errors are discounted as “just one of those gigs” to others, but inwardly they are a little apprehensive as to why
This is something that every singer can relate to. Whether it’s legitimate illness, or hayfever, bad night sleep, excess revelry the night before, or something else entirely, we have ALL suffered from bad voice days. Worse still, we are all going to continue to experience bad voice days in the future. With that in mind,
One of the key principles that our technique is built on is using the natural calibration of your speaking voice (i.e. chest voice) as a roadmap to build our singing voice. The greater the deviation from our speaking voice co-ordination/calibration (evidenced by a different sound), the greater the level of issues singers tend to encounter.
Another vocal coach shared this (older) article this week regarding singers needing voice surgery (embedded below), and a paragraph in the middle jumped out at me: “Soul singer John Legend, 33, said he has grown mindful of the importance of looking after his voice. “I’ve certainly been no stranger to having issues with my voice,”
Knowing how to recover your singing voice after illness can be a royal pain in the bum. Singing after illness or after bouts of vocal fatigue (especially when viruses, colds, sinus issues, or mucous-heavy bugs have hit you) can frustrate and annoy even the most skilled singer. Put simply, there is a certain amount you
From Nodules and Granulomas, to Haemorrhages, and Surgery Complications No matter how top-tier a singer may be, if the touring demands outstrip their ability, vocal problems are sure to follow. So this week I thought it would be interesting to look at the kind of issues that can befall singers who neglect their vocal health,
