Another voice 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,” he said. “My first year performing was the worst year because I didn’t know how to pace myself, and once I started to understand how it worked, I started to pace myself better.”
This is CRITICAL. Let’s learn why…
So many singers are trying to do things that they physically can’t sustain. Whether that’s with poor technique, or doing things are outstripping even very good technique they already have, or trying to do too many gigs too often, etc.
This article covers a lot of the pitfalls associated with the current industry, and the issues that arise because of lack of awareness of what the voice can/cannot do, and what their voice can/cannot do, in the face of whatever they need to be doing.
Have a read, and see if anything strikes a chord with you, because your vocal longevity may just depend on it!
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