by John Roberts Becoming a great singer is not about just having natural talent and making it work for you. You will also need to practice a lot and take singing lessons. You might have a truly amazing voice that does not sound like it needs training, but taking lessons will actually give you an advantage and help you to achieve your goals faster. The main reason that singing lessons will help you is in the control of your voice. Many singers who are naturals do not have this control and th
Author : Art Gib So you want to be a singer? Most singers who have gone on to successful careers rarely have luck alone to thank: they have talent, of course, but they also put in a lot of hard work to make it happen for themselves Here are some ways you can turn the spotlight on yourself and increase your chances of making the big time — No doubt you have a lot of natural talent: but there’s always, always room for improvement! If you are serious about pursuing a career in music, you must
MOST 17-year-olds would think that leaving home and striking out on their own without parental supervision is a big adventure. But not local identical twins BY2, who went to Taiwan two years ago to pursue a career in showbusiness. The cutesy sisters, Miko and Yumi Bai, 17, quit school and flew to Taipei for training to become successful singers. The duo, who recently released their second album Twins, say they had to cope with an entirely new environment in Taiwan and master
For our Sunday Arts profile, Rafael Pi Ramon interviews Martina Arroyo and takes a look into her “Prelude to Performance” workshops while the students are preparing for performances of La Boheme and Die Fledermaus beginning on July 16th at Hunter CollegeKaye Playhouse . For many years, Martina Arroyo was a star on the stages of the great opera houses of Europe as well as at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. At the Philharmonic, she was one of Leonard Bernstein’s favorite singers .
Alanis Morissette —angry/thoughtful lady-pop voice of the 90s—sometimes acts. She showed up as God in Dogma and a bisexual on Sex and the City . And now she’s appearing on Weeds for seven episodes. And we’re pretty happy about it. Why God why?, you may ask. Well, there’s just always been something beguiling about Ms. Morissette—her odd, alien-like Canadianism, her sad, wistful eyes—that we just like on screen. Anyway, here’s a picture of her as Nancy’s new gynecologist. Exciting. And,
