As a singer, I often carry various teachers on my shoulder. I’ve collected these guardian angels along the singing road and continue to meet more insightful advisors.
My Dad: his devotion, musicality, rich talent, and enthusiasm for music (and insistence on my soprano identity.)
My Mom: her beautiful natural tone that just comes out of her.
Jerry Daniels: reminds me to find my core/ng sound.
Sarah Stedman: reminds me how to align the voice from top to bottom and sing my (i) staccato that has often saved my backside.
Patricia O’Neill: my freedom sage reminds me to move the air and voice with ease.
Ruth Falcon: reminds me to lift and stretch up with onset and placement.
Paul Kreider: taught me the magic of upper register vowel modification
Mark Thomsen: reminds me to use my consonants as an asset to assist my singing.
Alfonse Anderson: reminds me to sing the vowel and find my matching chiaro.
Ben Spierman: Awesome acting coach who has helped me to bring myself all online.
David Maiullo: reminds me to bring out my personality.
Sandor Svabo: reminds me find my lightness and move my phrases.
Giovanni Longo: Italian diction, musical passion, and bel canto phrase guru who has brought me to another plane since 2017.
Charity Wicks: the lovely human on my shoulder today who has engaged my inner pulse and lives in my brain with cutoffs/teaching rhythmically challenging pieces.
Today, Charity is helping me with cutoffs as I teach the awesome “We Dance” piece from “Once on this Island.”
It takes a singing village indeed.
#grateful
(This song is awesome)
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