Girl who was told she COULDN'T SING finds her voice again w/Vocal Coach

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[_RanaR_]

Oof. I feel like no one ever acknowledges singing trauma. I still can’t even sing in the car with people 😅 heck, I can barely find my voice when I’m alone.

[Ladymusicc]

It is horrible to feel like you can't sing, ESPECIALLY when you LOVE to sing. I had a so called "friend" take stabs at me and throw insults when she would listen to my music. Or worse, she would say nothing at all. Found out she was making fun of me behind my back. But i decided i wanted to keep making music, so i found you Mrs.Cheryl. I started doing the vocal exercises with you. Slowly, i regained confidence and noticed my voice sounding stronger. I also started using my head voice more, which i thought was gross. But i am now coming to really like my voice. Thank you for believing in us Mrs.Cheryl!!!

[Musicflow-yght]

“Hey Ms. Cheryl!” That upstairs to downstairs call technique was truly helpful and inspiring! This girl has always been talented and Ms. Cheryl helped her find her light again! That was beautiful ☺️

[michsub]

And she has a natural vibrato and lovely breathy tone!

[jabrilwilliams]

Ugh relatable. I’ll never forget my mom calling me to her room one day when I was singing while cleaning, and asking me “you really think you can sing?” In a sarcastic rhetorical tone and I’ve been scarred ever since

[alexamaria]

True. Singing is 80% mental and 20% talent. So, let's believe in ourselves.❤

[delfyinc]

dang, this one made me cry. I grew up with my sister being "the singer" in the family and even though I'm now a singer-songwriter, I still feel where my voice is locked up, where I'm holding myself back because I don't feel like I'm allowed to sing. (I was the dancer. my sister has similar hang-ups about dancing, don't do this to your kids)

[thecabbagemaster.]

singing trauma is SO real and ive never seen it talked about. i cannot even muster out a note when i am 100% fully alone and the mere idea makes me nauseous and teary eyed. this woman always has the most warm comforting energy in her videos, shes the type of teacher i wish i had around me in crucial developmental years but my teachers chose a few students (i was one) they loved to publicly humiliate every day :')

[virklad]

Beautiful. This is something I struggled with my whole career and still have to overcome from time to time. Love your videos.

[ShinyRedStar-dnyf]

As someone with trauma related to singing, thanks so much for helping her. I’m currently able to sing classical rep and choir songs, but I’ve been traumatized away from singing anything else by my vocal coach. I am really in to musical theater, especially more modern stuff. It’s my dream to be a musical theater actress, with some opera work mixed in. I’m a very high soprano. She told me I’d never be able to sing any modern musical theater properly without ruining my classical voice and vocally damaging myself. She said it was a waste of my time to learn new musicals and that it was crucial to my future that I start accepting that I’ll always be only a classical singer and should start only focusing on choir, opera, and other classical songs. I was absolutely crushed and ended up terrified of vocal damage. I ended up stopping singing alone in the house for fear of hurting my voice. I got so scared of using the natural mix and belt that I developed that I lost the ability to belt almost completely and lost 3 notes off the top of my mix range. It instilled a fear of doing what I love and started to make me fall out of love with singing. So I’m letting her teach me classical rep right now and slowly teaching myself other music and trying to ask her to work on it with me. Things are getting better. I’ve talked it out with her and she’s starting to acknowledge that singing musical theater brings me the most joy. She’s begun assigning me songs from older musicals like The Music Man, giving me lessons on mix and belt, giving me lists of roles she thinks I could feasibly play based on my voice, what’s commonly done, and my height, and she’s taught me modern musical theater songs that I pick out myself for performances with joy. Sorry for the wall of text. No one probably read that, but I really hope someone did. Thanks for listening if you’re still here. Don’t let anyone take away your love of singing

[lilysonthemoon]

She can absolutely sing. Whoever told her she can’t, doesn’t know what a singer sounds like.

[Mscoffiedash]

Trauma is a real thing! Thank you! It messes with you in every way! I sing your lessons when I know I need a push! But I’m finding my voice as well! Thank you!

[meghanusry]

This makes me so emotional! Singing is so vulnerable, and I’ve been working to find my voice because of similar trauma. Sending her light and love as she finds herself in her singing!

[T_]

I can’t believe you changed her voice so fast! It’s beautiful!

[itsme_knb]

It is a gift to be able to bring out the best in people, when it's buried underneath insecurity and trauma. Ms. Cheryl, you are such a bright light! And great job, Taylor...go fulfill your dreams!

[duckbredd]

Dayum!! Thank you for helping her get her confidence back! She sounds amazing

[helenthomas]

Thank you soooo much for encouraging us. There are always people who will tell us we cant sing out of spite or prejudice or envy or a combination of the three. We have to persist no matter our age....

[eugenienoussi]

People can be terribly and unnecessarily cruel. It's really kind of you to guide her in this singing journey. We hope to see how far she has progressed. God bless you two.

[EP-svdn]

As a fellow teacher I have to say it makes me want to cry when I have new adults tell me they don't know if they can learn to sing because someone along the way has told them that yet they have a perfectly beautiful voice.

On the flip side it is a wonderful pleasure to teach them and see them work through the process of learning to trust that their body to respond vocally . To see their eyes light up when they realize they truly can sing and fulfill their personal desire to do so always brings such joy.

[aniechka]

Wow. Just wow. It was as if that girl inside had opened the door and, after all these years, sung, “Hey, Mrs. Cheryl!” Girl, you have a beautiful voice, always remember that! ❤