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Mar 5 2019

Finding yourself.

Through all of these interviews I’m realizing more and more how there is no blueprint for having a creative career.

So many singers I’ve spoken with stopped singing sometimes for a decade because their spouse said they’d never make it,…

Feb 12 2019

#Mood

Have you been in this mood on stage?

I know I have. I’ve had a few gigs that were so rough I really had to contemplate my life choices. It’s not the best emotional space to be in and not…

Feb 5 2019

Getting out of our own way.

So many of us shoot ourselves in the foot by not doing this. I’ve been there. Maybe I didn’t follow up on that lead because that person seemed kind of full of it and I didn’t think it was gonna…

Jan 23 2019

What sparks a light in you?

I’ve been having such great conversations with other singers lately. Why and how we sing. When we started or restarted. Who encouraged us and who didn’t.

Singing is the soul’s expression. The act of singing does ignite something within us…

Jan 17 2019

Respect is just a minimum.

I’d been thinking over the past few weeks about what can derail the career of a young singer.

What are the things that need to happen in a career? What are things that have no place in that development? What…

Jan 14 2019

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Ten seems to be the magic number of years some singers I've interviewed go silent and simply stop singing. Ten years of a beautiful gift stifled and unacknowledged. Why?

Maybe their parents weren’t supportive, their spouse told them they’d never…