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