Laryngitis in Singers: Causes and Recovery
What causes laryngitis? Learn how vocal fold inflammation affects your voice, why full vocal rest matters, and how hydration supports recovery.
Confidence and your voice: The sound of your voice
This month is friendship month and I've been taking the opportunity to talk about confidence. If you lack confidence in your voice, that can actually mean that you are lacking confidence in yourself because you feel as though you can't speak, you can't say what you want to say or be heard as you’d like to be.
Confidence and your voice: Your accent
This month is friendship month, and building on last week’s blog and video about confidence in your voice, this week we’re talking about confidence in your accent. A lot of people that I talk to, both within my singing or speech lessons, and generally in life, say to me that they hate their accent. And I think that's really sad. Accents are brilliant. They are what make us as unique as we are. And the fact that we're starting to lose some of these regional dialects and regional accents is sad.
Your voice and confidence
Hello! And a belated welcome to the month of September when we’re going to be talking about your voice and confidence! It is friendship month and, for a lot of…
The Larynx: vocal folds
The vocal folds are thin pieces of muscle attached within the larynx. They are also referred to as vocal cords and the vocal process, but the latter term covers more than we are talking about in this blog