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Singing Voice And Speaking Voice: Color, Pitch, Tone... Can It Be Improved, Enhanced or… Outright Changed?

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A couple of days ago, I received a phone call from an 18 years old man who was asking if I could completely change his voice, (surgically, or non-surgically LOL), so he could sound like a certain rapper…? I wasn’t quite sure what to do… to laugh or to cry…   The question was funny, to say the least, but the issue was sad, as, at 18 years of age, he was still very naive and simply foolish, to put it mildly. In our, so to speak, technologically advanced age, he sounded like he had no slightest idea about this world and how it operates, let alone about the human voice and what triggers it to work in a certain way.   I always said previously that the voice, like fingerprints, does identify the person, as each human being has their own unique voice, which, in turn, most of the time, also reflects the state of their being.   Could that be completely changed or modified, you, my reader, may ask? The answer for the former: “No, like fingerprints, it cannot be changed.    B

Mind, Body and Voice; Miraculous Throat Cancer Recovery!!

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Tim Bristol, professional musician and singer, a throat (tonsil) cancer survivor from Niagara Falls, New York: “Diana, I am amazed: the doctors - the ‘experts’ - just kept saying that 'Nothing can be done...! Be happy that you are alive.' But they, fortunately, were wrong. You have proved them wrong with your unique vocal approach” - Tim Bristol - Throat cancer survivor Tim Bristol; A professional musician and singer for the last 50 years was, unfortunately, diagnosed with throat (tonsil) cancer. For all those decades, prior to attending my non-surgical voice repair course, the majority of Tim performances were in smokey clubs. He told me that for the last 4 decades, while performing, he had seen nothing, but the "blue light"...  No wonder Tim had to experience a consequence of the above. As musicians always say; "No gig lasts forever..." Tim was given a choice to undergo a quite extensive chemo and radiation therapies, or otherwise, he was told, his

Pre-Owned Voice...? How Did It Feel When You Owned Your Voice And Were In Control Of It? Would You Do Anything And Everything In Your Power To Feel The Same Way Again?

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Over the years, and especially lately, we have been receiving numerous e-mails and calls from ordinary people and not necessarily singers , who once had their normal voice, but due to some injuries or some medical conditions, the means of human communication via voice was partially lost or even lost fully.... For some people, it has been really devastating; some have been taking it with a grain of salt, some others have been trying to find, if not the cure, but at least a viable treatment, and some have been waiting for a miracle, such as a magic pill, or, better yet, someone who would miraculously fix their voice, and moreover, via communicating with them remotely...? The latter, to say the least, is ridiculous. Any voice problem is a serious matter and has to be addressed in person one-on-one and with hands-on experience. Nevertheless, all of those people described above, have been very frustrated and a lot of them, to put it mildly, have been simply di

Vocally, Academically, Intellectually and Artistically Speaking… Is there a balance needed between all of those listed components?

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In over 38 years of music/vocal business, I’ve met all kinds of people; some more talented and some not so talented. Some of them had good learning abilities; some were much slower accepting and retaining the needed technical skills, academically speaking. Interestingly enough, those with poorer learning, for some reason, had a better and more pronounced vocal talent . Those who were more academically sound appeared to be much tighter and more restricted in their vocal and, overall, musical abilities . History also shows that the majority of today’s well-known artists have hardly a high school education and, some of them, literally, have evident learning disabilities. Needless to say that for nearly four decades, I have been working with professional musicians , with wannabe professional performers and just regular people, whereas some of them came from the corporate world such as accounting, law, medicine and etc.  My experience shows that these particular categories