Did speech come from singing? We "sing" now; pitch is part of your dialect, we "sing a different song" to babies than to

There’s a moment in my presentation to singers and voice teachers, in my Neuro-Vocal seminars, that I have to ask: How many of you have been told that pop singing will ruin your voice? Hands always go up. Never less than a third of the participants, actually; both voice teachers and students. That indicates to me that some voice teachers and college voice departments: still adhere to the myth that classical singing is the only real singing still believe singing with techn

A fellow voice teacher and I were talking about a quandary that all teachers of the arts face: whether or not to encourage students to pursue their art. It’s a tough one. A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, an effect whereby we are very confident that we’re very good at things we know little about. The arts depend on the Dunning-Kruger Effect. If newbie artists really knew: how really hard it is to be successful in the arts how little they really