Though I never wanted classical training, I ended up with eight years of it through high school and college. Because that's what there was. Unfortunately, those lessons taught me to sing in a way that was both unsustainable and inappropriate for the work that had been my dream all along, and the work I did after college: fronting a band 5-6 nights a week for 3-4 hours a night. After nine months of touring my voice was trashed.

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Six months (of vocal recovery) later, I began lessons with a voice teacher who was also a working singer in Chicago. He had learned both classical and pop pedagogy, and applied that to his experience as both a concert and studio singer. That experience was transformational. It set me on the path of wanting to train singers of "microphone music". 

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Because I was singing in bands every weekend, I knew that kind of singing was typically performed in an environment where the singer could not hear themselves. As an independent researcher, I found a connection to solve that problem; I found that tapping into the nervous system to exploit existing neurological responses could create a short path to healthy singing for all microphone styles. I wrote Money Notes to share my work.

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Ten years later, I continue to learn more, teach, and share the magic of neural didactics for singing; the intersection of education, neuroscience, and the singing voice.

I'm not about being a guru. I'm about working with fellow professionals to solve problems and create new tools. That's my groove.  And I love my job.