Question that came to mind

lorelei2702
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:46:23 +0000

That is kind of like the old “which comes first, the chicken or the egg?” question. Good teachers have good students, which then recruits other good students. Most singers, for various reasons, work their way through several teachers, so who is to say who “made them”. A teacher can ruin a singer, but the folks who should get the most credit for the most impressive voices is the parents and their genes! Some teachers who have lots of winners do not actually teach singing, but rather they coach and polish. That is necessary if a singer really knows how to sing and is totally functional in their voice type, and it is helpful as part of the process along the way. Some schools have excellent relationships amongst the teachers, where some will concentrate on technical issues and problems specific to a voice type, while others will do the coaching of roles, style, language, repertory. It takes a village…