Jeannette LoVetri

Tonight I watched a few kid belters on YouTube. Some of them were 9, 10 and 11 years old. The singing was impressive, but pretty...

Physical skills, which singing is, must be learned by doing. Most skills, like dance, but sports, too, are taught by those who have become experts...

We all learn, I hope, from mistakes. Doing what we do, however, means learning by working with a student, who gets to be the recipient...

In my work as a teacher, I have always done better with experienced students. Not that I don’t work with beginners or singers of average...

Everyone who has taken even one singing lesson has encountered some form of useless terminology. There is an endless list of terms that don’t mean...

Please tell me what it means when someone instructs the student to “release the breath” or “sing on the breath”. Is that not what we...

In order to use any vocal exercise effectively, several things have to happen. First of all, the person singing or the teacher has to decide...

I have run into this phrase quite a lot: “I don’t understand mix” or “I don’t understand how to mix”. This makes me think the...

Broadway performers are the only ones who are asked to sing in separate register qualities on purpose. Classical singers must generate resonances to carry over...

It is my fondest wish that all people who teach singing really understand how profound the human voice is. Part of that would be understanding...