Singing

Fifty blog posts on voice, speech, accents, and presence

by Kate DeVore
Filed Under: Accent Modification, Being Heard, Breath Support, Dialects for Stage, Myth Busters, Owning the Room, Powerful Speaking, Professional Speaking, Singing, Stage Fright, Vocal health, Vocal Injury, Voice for Stage, Voice Therapy, Voiceover

I just learned that I have made 50 posts on this page over the past few years. These posts cover everything from “diaphragmatic” breathing to allergies to vocal health/injuries to projection to learning accents to hoarseness to owning a room. In case you missed any, here’s a complete list:

Dry or crackly voice? Nebulizers aren’t just for asthma!

by Kate DeVore
Filed Under: Being Heard, Powerful Speaking, Singing, Vocal health, Vocal Injury, Voice for Stage, Voice Therapy

So, dear reader, by now you know all about hydration and why it is so important for your voice. And if you’d like a refresher, see my post Why you need to keep your voice moist (That’s right, I said “moist”!). In this current post, I do a deep dive into a powerful tool for keeping your voice healthy: the nebulizer.

Singers: Your speaking voice is more important than you think

by Kate DeVore
Filed Under: Myth Busters, Singing, Vocal health, Vocal Injury, Voice Therapy

While I am not a singing teacher per se, I do help singers rehab vocal injuries and address technical issues. We often work on the speaking voice (as opposed to singing) most or all of the time. Here’s why.