Jeannette LoVetri

I recently attended a concert that presented a range of art songs and CCM music. It was sung by very good classically trained singers and...

Once you get someone into a new default position, which can take a lot of work and time, it’s important to emphasize the idea that...

The idea that the larynx should stay down at all times is incorrect. The idea that laryngeal stability is produced by keeping the larynx from...

In order to get somewhere with functional training, a teacher has to pull in two opposing directions and that is confusing to the student. It...

“You don’t need to understand physiology to sing well.” “You don’t need to understand voice science to sing well.” “You don’t need to understand vocal...

Singing well requires strength. You have to have strength in your core muscles, which includes the muscles in your back from the sacrum to the...

How do you know what kind of vocal boundaries you should have? In fact, what are functional boundaries and what, exactly, is functional training anyway?...

In Italian the word “spinto” when applied to singing voices means “pushed”. Every singing teacher worth his or her salt is against pushing the voice,...

If we let go of repertoire entirely for the moment and looked at singing training strictly as a physical activity like a sport or like...

There are a lot of people whose idea of singing is based on making the voice do something. They have never, not once, sung a...