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Vocal Damage - Vocal Rehab: Calling All Vocally Injured Speakers and Singers…

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Please Have Patience For A Complete Vocal Recovery!!! Over the years I have dealt with many vocal disorders and injuries, be it possessed by ordinary people with speech problems or by amateur or professional singers .  Almost all have had one thing in common, the absolute lack of patience with respect to their voice restoration and vocal recovery .  The minute they felt better about their voice and in general, they were ready “to run marathons”, so to speak. Those with the speaking voice , who have not heard their normal voice for some time, could literally not stop speaking (fast and loud) the minute they regained their voice. No matter how much and how long I have been persuading them not to start speaking too soon, too much, and too loud at all, none of them had listened.  The minute they came back home, they called all their friends and relatives and some of them even created coming home parties; and once again, some returned to yelling and screaming at their ch

Vocally Speaking: "Inner Bomb Detonation"… How Dangerous or perhaps, even Beneficial could that be?

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Vocal damage hurts, but you don’t have to. It could be devastating when the vocal injury occurs for both speakers and singers . Interestingly enough, for speakers, it appears to be even more tragic, as they are absolutely unaware of that occurrence. While overusing and abusing their voice, they have no idea that one day, it can burst on them. They continue pushing and pulling until their voice literally “pops” (as had been literally described by one of my voice repair clients ) and then becomes hardly usable.  Clearly, the above had not happened at that moment; The, so to speak, ‘stage’ (the precedent) had gotten pre-set for some time. Those voice-injured singers/speakers were (almost literally) ‘developing and gradually building a bomb’, and it was only a matter of time before the now-ready 'bomb’ would eventually detonate.   Given the above, needless to say, regardless, of whether they were amateur or professional speakers, they were sensing the change in the delive

Vocal “Junkie”, in the manner of speaking... Addicted to the sound of your voice? How Distractive could that be...?

Non-Surgical Voice Repair has been my forte for 4 decades and counting... I’ve worked with both - regular people with speaking/singing voice problems , ‘wannabes’, so to speak, and, of course, professional speakers and singers . This blog is mostly about professional singers who have done nothing but sang and performed most of their lives. Understandably, the voice is their prime ‘instrument’ and, nevertheless, those artists’ livelihoods would very well depend on it. However, down the road, their voices would experience natural wear and tear, in a manner of speaking. Obviously, these people would become alarmed and, nevertheless, frightened - rightfully so! Usually, it would start in the later stage of their professional lives, as their voice would not be able to withstand the same workability and, nevertheless, sound pressure on their vocal anatomy, as they were able to in their younger years. Needless to say, most of those artists have been naturally quite talented, b

Internal Instrument -- Your Voice: How difficult is it to recover from a major voice disorder and then to be able to use it in a better and broader capacity than before?

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This Tigeress is Roaring Perfectly and, Certainly, does not have to undergo any voice repair!  Recovering the voice is my passion! I love what I do, and I do what I love! When a singer (amateur or professional) comes to me with a damaged voice, my biggest desire is to uncover and recover their voice and put them back on stage as soon as possible. “Thank you Diana for putting me back into my vocal shoes!”   - Cindy G. Professional Recording Artist of Interscope Records Los Angeles, California. The vocal injury could play a big impact on a singer’s psyche. In the year 2006, I received a professional singer from Hawaii, who previously was very much involved in their live music performances. Then he got diagnosed with a nodule on the right vocal cord. It was devastating for him, as he no longer could perform and sustain his role in the music scene. He had to quit his singing and due to his vocal injury was forced to become a pool boy to be able to survive financially. You