Goodbye, Vocal Dryness & Mucus! Hello VocalMist!
We singers, actors, and professional voice users have been known to be very careful about our own voice care and training. Well, OK, FANATIC about our voice care and training! While others are carousing and being loud, we’re being a little bit Diva about avoiding phonotrauma (i.e., forceful behaviors like yelling or shouting over noise). […]
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Goodbye To 2020 – What I’ve Learned
To say that the year 2020 was challenging is an understatement. The nation, and the world, faced a pandemic unlike anything in most of our lifetimes. The devastating virus known as COVID-19 wreaked havoc across the globe, sickening and killing far too many people. Lockdowns shuttered businesses and took away millions of jobs, but may […]
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OOVO STRAWS: TAKE CARE OF YOUR VOICE AND THE PLANET
If you’re a voice professional, voice student, or just someone who works on improving your voice, you’ve probably heard about straw exercises or straw phonation. That’s where you vocalize slides or scales through a straw. People say that straws are the way to save an injured voice. But how do they work so well to […]
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SPEAKING THROUGH A MASK: WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER
Remember when the only people you ever saw wearing a face mask were your doctors and maybe your dentist? Not anymore. Now it’s everyone (or it SHOULD be everyone!). Cloth masks, medical masks, N95’s, face gaiters, bandanas, face shields…you name it, someone is wearing it. And with good reason: the Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed […]
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