A Voice Apart

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

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

No doubts if you have bigger rather than smaller vocal box with longer rather than shorter vocal cords, it will be that much easier for you to become a vocal performer .   Obviously the bigger car is much stronger and its’ engine is much bigger; so you can extract much more power from it in comparison with the smaller car. As for people, there are taller and more masculine individuals and there are shorter and skinnier ones. As a rule, the taller and more masculine person will have all of his anatomy bigger and stronger. And, conversely, the smaller petite person will not have their anatomy so present. Yes, there are exceptions of the rule, where a smaller person has a vocal anatomy and their voice bigger then they look. So, if the smaller, petite person would like to become a singer , is that possible? The answer is, yes it is. However, there will be much more and much harder work required realizing the future singer’s dream. We would really need to stretch the related

We often hear the saying, “ you are what you eat”. I can also, with absolute certainty, say that you are what you speak and sing. How so, you may ask? With the holistic approach in mind, I should mention that the voice (in my definition) is an expression of who you are and identification of the state of your being. The voice is a very important tool for communication. When you speak with the person, by his/her voice tone, you can determine the person’s mood and even the state of the person’s health; especially if you are at least somewhat familiar with that person. On that note, I could say that when I work with the Voice Repair client and get their voice 'out of their throat' by restructuring it to the facial and abdominal muscles, the person starts sounding completely different, i.e., the voice starts to sound much healthier, more vibrant, more colorful and more reflective of the actual person’s make-up. The sound becomes much clearer

After nearly 30 years, my business has gradually turned, almost in its entirety, to the Institute for Non-Surgical Voice Repair, which now, by osmosis, is a huge division of our original ‘The Royans Professional Vocal School’, founded in 1984. It seems like more and more people, (speakers and singers), have been experiencing mild and not-so-mild voice problems. Interestingly enough, almost every one of them, at some point in time, accessed their physicians and ENT specialists. Strangely enough, not one of them was helped to overcome their voice problems. At best, the medical professionals were able to offer some Botox treatments, especially for the Spasmodic Dysphonia sufferers and, or laser/scalpel surgical procedures. The Botox helped some patience momentarily, but then it got warn out and the symptoms of a nasty neurological disease of Spasmodic Dysphonia prevailed again.  The polyps and nodules were yanked from the doomed patients’ throats, but they too, to the patients’