Remembering to Stay Out of Your Head

You may think you know what I mean by this admonition because I'm always talking about singing in you true voice, your real voice, your full body voice!

But not this time!

This time I am discussing your "other" head...or YOUR EGO!

I would like for you to always remember, singers, that your gift of voice comes with responsibilities. And they are these:

• to share
• to uplift
• to teach and reach out
• to communicate
• to gain and maintain your own humility and gratefulness of spirit.

If, along the way, you also achieve personal success...with the fame and fortune that goes with them, that's great! But that alone is not why you sing! Is it? If you have only the goal of becoming famous and making a lot of money, you will be disappointed.

On the other hand, if you sing for love and love alone, your chance of success rises and you are fulfilled at the same time...way down deep in the most remote crevices of your soul.

Do you get what I'm telling you, singers?

The word talent comes from the Greek word for natural endowment, or gift. You didn't create it. It was given to you. Please do not waste it on mere material acquisition. Share it! Bring people together over it! Change the world with it! And above all, singers...LOVE YOUR AUDIENCE!