Life Lessons from early on in Theater
When I first started off as a performer, this was way back in school, nobody could hear me.
It’s really ironic that I ended up becoming a voice teacher and helped other people learn that, among other things, if your voice is powerful and vibrant, it’s important.
It doesn’t equate to harshness. It doesn’t equate to anger.
You can throw a big old lasso of love around your audience with a big full voice.
And that’s just one part of the expressiveness of having a dynamic voice. You do want that voice [depending on the performance] you’re doing, I’m thinking about a couple of the video game characters I’ve played where I’ve been very military. That sort of thing.
Yeah, you want to have that.
You just want to have all of the options and not equate one technical thing, volume, with aggression. There’s no need. Just shake it up, break it all apart, figure out what your voice is, the physiology of it, and then you can rebuild it the way that you want and let go of the old stuff that has maybe been holding your voice back up until now.
I’m Gin Hammond and I’m Living IncogNegro. I’m glad you’re here and we’re on this journey together. Find me on instagram here. Send me a note here.