After teaching for more than two decades, I’ve come across many adults who were crushed as a child because they either had lessons from a strict teacher who scolded them for “singing badly,” or had a family member or friend tell them to stop singing. I call these “vocal wounds.” Out of the thousands of people I’ve worked with, I’d say about 40% of people have them. Most of the people that have vocal wounds were scarred before the age of ten years old. They never got the support they needed to climb out of their despair, which resulted in an unexpressed, traumatized adult who hates their voice.

Does that mean you should not enroll your child in voice lessons under the age of ten? My answer is no, of course not. You just want to make sure the teacher they work with is someone who understands that vocal training is connected to the mind and soul, as well as the voice. Children need to be handled with care.

The CORE Vocal Power® approach provides your child with empowering tools that will help them develop habits that will benefit them not only in singing but in their life. They will learn to trust their natural instincts, to align with their truth and commit to their own journey because they want to. The CORE formula provides the structure, while allowing them to still sing naturally without becoming mechanical perfectionist singers who are always so worried about what other people think. I wish I had someone teach me this when I was a kid!