Vocalist.org archive


From:  "Caio Rossi" <caiorossi@i...>
"Caio Rossi" <caiorossi@i...>
Date:  Fri Mar 2, 2001  2:51 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] was healthy belt is now college musical theater programs


Gina wrote:

> I'm just wondering why a student who wants a pop career or a musical
> theatre career would go to college? Why not just get a good teacher and
> go to NYC? They won't learn what they're after in college.

I had a teacher who had gone to Berklee in order to study pop singing. She
said it was a big mess. Singers were hired not for their technical
qualities, but for their performance success. Then, teachers would teach you
what they thought they were supposed to ( opera-based singing ), while they
would do different things on the stage.

She said she interviewed many of them about belting. AS most of them were
black people who belted in church, they always answered the same thing:
"Belting is a God-given talent. You're either blessed or you're not. There's
no technique for that."

Bye,

Caio Rossi



emusic.com