What Singing Teaches Women About Becoming Well-Rounded
To sing well, we must straddle paradoxes. We must be strong enough to be vulnerable, engaged enough to be relaxed, buoyant enough to find poise. As a young singer/songwriter and voice student, I found singing lessons to be more therapeutic than therapy. Overcoming the particular challenges of vocalizing did not come naturally to me, so I had to throw myself deeply into them. I had to carve out my lower register like someone seeking the roots of a tree buried deep in soil. I had to smooth out...