Taking care of your vocal cords with utmost importance is part of a professional singer’s lifestyle. The last thing you want to happen to you is vocal cord paralysis. There are three reasons you’re here: You think you have it. You already have it. You don’t know what it is. If you have number two …
Before getting up on stage to perform, I always think I’m special. Yes, I’m bragging, I feel like I am just about to show up as the one everyone has been anticipating. Whether it’s a fact or not, it’s a feeling, my own. Well, hold up. What it actually is, is when an audio tech …
In the previous article, How to Sing Like a Professional, I focused a bit on breathing techniques and how to sing from the diaphragm, foundational in building a solid start in singing, but it wasn’t quite elaborative. So, in this one, I will solely focus on it. This is specially written for those people who …
I was watching on YouTube last night and saw this man inside his own home singing about hope amidst what is going on in the world right now with the Coronavirus all around us. And then there’s a whole street in Italy singing joyfully despite being hit hard by the pandemic. I said to myself, …
Being young and confident, it’s easy to feel invincible and ready to conquer the world. You’ve seen those competitors at American Idol coming in for an audition with so much conviction that they’re going to make the cut only to be booted out of the room. Yeah, but let me tell you this. Making a …
Coronavirus symptoms – why on earth on a website about singing? That’s right, it’s now becoming a part of our daily lives, my friends, at least for the meantime. The good news is, there is an end to everything. This epidemic won’t be here forever. It could end next month, 6 months from now or …
During my developing years as a singer, confidence in my vocal instrument progressed by leaps and bounds. One of the reasons was that I started at a very young age, in my 2nd grade to be exact, I was already routinely singing on a daily basis by myself at home, at school or at community …
For many years that I’ve been singing, I never really bothered about what’s going on inside the voice box (also called larynx) as I enjoyed my favorite songs. “What for?”, I thought. I didn’t have to. I was more interested in voice technique and how I sounded than the intricacies of the source, the voice …
Singing has been a pleasurable pastime for many and there’s a reason for it. And there’s no real reason not to do it even if you have a bad voice. Apart from getting entertained, with music being the universal language, I was thinking, there must be some other important aspects to singing that we do …
Charlie Puth, Justin Bieber, Charice Pempengco, or the new lead singer of the band group Journey, Arnel Pineda—these are only four examples of singers that have garnered massive popularity in their careers. And what do they have in common? They were all discovered via YouTube and some of them without even intending to be noticed …
