Anyone Can Sing

but not some teachers like to work with people who already sing well. The more determined a student tells me they can’t sing, the more determined I am that I can teach them. Together we need to determine the reasons a client is not already singing: perhaps lack of practice, lack of confidence, lack of discipline; professional rejection; or maybe a mistaken belief that whoever told you you couldn’t sing knew what they were talking about. They didn’t! Every student is an individual who can produce a full, natural and individual sound. Together we find it, define it, and improve it. I make only one guarantee to you: your progress in the work we do together relates directly to the amount of work you accomplish between sessions. You, and you alone, determine at what point, and at what cost, you reach your goals. We all have voices. If you can talk, you can sing. Finding those lost, natural singing voices becomes the task for teacher and student together. No one is tone-deaf. The unconscious brain always hits the right note, but sometimes the self-conscious body doesn’t. Together, we identify how physical adjustments can support accurate sounds. The brain and body can then work together. Non-singers finds their voices. Voice teachers guide. They may advise. They are not a placement service. They don’t make their students either talented or successful. They provide an atmosphere for their students to grow in skill, in vision and in confidence.

In 2017, in the musical, Souvenir, I played Cosmo McMoon, vocal coach to the famed “tone-deaf” Carnegie Hall performer, Frances Foster Jenkins, played by actress/singer Alison Davy. The wealthy Jenkins bought her way onto the concert stage. Alison is such a fine singer that she had to work very hard to sound bad.