'The Voice is the Muscle to the Soul' – Roy Hart
At the moment, I’m lucky enough to be doing a Meisner acting course with the Impulse Theatre Company. Yes, I know…an opera singer doing acting lessons?! Can this really be? Well, all I can say, is this is a new age of singing. Anyway, we had a talk, recently, about the difference between an impulsive […]
As I was walking to my audition, today, the themed music for the Death Star from the ‘Star Wars’ kicked into my head with a bit of ‘Spamalot‘ glitch thrown in for comic relief. Why is an audition so scary? In my head I can run through all the logic in the world, but all […]
There’s all the noise in the press about the Olympics and boycotting because of Tibet, well, there is something right here in the UK which needs to be boycotted and that’s the Sony Radio Awards. I’m saying this because I submitted 1 of my shows that I produced from the COMMUNITY radio station Radio Reverb, […]
Well, I’ve read an article this month in the Singer magazine, Personality traits by Mark Glanville, about how the personality of a singer doesn’t always align with their voice type and the problems that can arise from such a situation. In fact, it goes so far as to say, “Many Singers less talented… and less […]
Just recently I went to the doctors in regards to physical ailments I’ve been having with 1 hip. It seems I have joints which hyper extend or as I know it are double jointed. I’ve heard about this when I was a child and I would see other girls be able to do the splits […]
Well, personally, I feel this is hog wash, but I am biased, as I am a singer who took the ‘higher education’ route. I studied music in high school, college and then ended up with a degree in Music – Voice Performance. While I was studying it was drummed into me the importance of the […]
Branding, marketing and selling yourself are a definate part of the entertainment business, here’s some ideas.