<p>Females go through a voice break just like males do, it’s just not as obviously prominent. A good sign as to whether a girl has hit that break or not is usually whether she has started menstruating. Asthma can indeed make the voice sound airy, those kind of meds do affect the vocal chords. Age 12 is very young to start singing lessons, even if it is only 30 minutes a week. Most people don’t start before 16, some earlier if they are ready for it, I started at 14 (classical) and was considered extremely young at my conservatory at the time. You are usually not supposed to start lessons till after your period starts, although admittedly it varies from person to person. I was actually discouraged from hitting anything about an F, sometimes a G until I was 16 (even though I could easily) and I am now a coloratur sop. I think your daughter should minimize her lessons to once a month and then do “easy” singing and forget all the top notes for a while. Sounds to me like she is going into voice break now and she needs to be careful, especially with regular medication aggrevating her vocal chords on top of it all. We all know what happened to Charlotte Church who was warbling away classical sop stuff at 12…</p>
<p>What is she auditioning for??</p>