Vocal Masterclass by Seth Riggs & Margareta Svensson Riggs in Bali (Day 4) [1/2] | Shoemaker Studios

SETH RIGGS.

In the middle of his concert at the famous Forum in Los Angeles, super- star Stevie Wonder stopped the show to acknowledge, in front of thousands of fans, a man who has had much to do with the success and longevity of his vocal career. He wasn’t referring to his manager or record producer. He was referring to Seth Riggs - his voice teacher.

Seth Riggs is considered by many to be the best and most successful voice teacher in the world. He is certainly the busiest. No other teacher, past or present, has ever matched his phenomenal track record. His students are a veritable “Who’s Who” of singers, actors, dancers, and entertainers throughout the world.

Seth Riggs’s vocal technique and the methods he uses to teach the technique were forged and tempered by the fierce demands placed on the world’s top performers, who must often perform several shows a night - night after night! A great deal of money is always at stake, so his clients’ voices must be able to function easily, without strain. It is no wonder that whenever singers come to Los Angeles from other parts of the world, producers, directors and fellow performers send them to see this master vocal technician.

Riggs lectures and conducts Master Classes on vocal technique at colleges and universities all around the world. He also has assisted some of the country’s foremost doctors who specialize in organic and functional disorders of the voice in vocal therapy (the elimination of vocal nodules, polyps, and various conditions of brosis). In the pragmatic world of show business, where time is money, Seth Riggs is the man professionals turn to for results.

Seth Riggs has taught Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bolton, Josh Groban, Natalie Cole, and many more!

MARGARETA SVENSSON RIGGS.

With an average of 200 performances a year, Margareta is increasingly recognized as an original pop singer, pianist, performer and songwriter. Frank Sinatra’s drummer saw her perform and offered her to come to Los Angeles to record her original songs. Since then she has appeared throughout Europe and in the U.S.A. Audiences include royalties, world leaders, Nobel Prize Laureates, captains of industry and celebrities such as Robert De Niro, Paul McCartney, Tom Jones, Dolly Parton, Michael Bolton and many more.

Over a two-year period Margareta was sought after to open all the new resort and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. Newspapers wrote “Jackpot in Las Vegas.” A contract was then offered at the famous Polo Lounge at The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, where Margareta performed both as a singer-pianist as well as a solo pianist. She went back to Las Vegas having been recruited by Steve Wynn himself to be part of the opening of Wynn Las Vegas.

Though Five Star Five Diamond establishments have become Margareta’s home environment when it comes to solo piano and singing, she spends more time writing music and performing her stage show. And whether it is headlining, giving a concert, or providing entertainment for special events, Margareta is not a stranger to any of it. With her remarkable way of dealing with an audience she can excite any venue.

Margareta is trained as an actor/dancer at Harvard University, Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) and Musical Theatre Works Conservatory, and has been seen in a variety of roles. She was elected as the youngest member ever at that point to join Stallfaglarna, the prestigious order of Swedish women in entertainment.

Margareta frequently travels back to Europe and to her home country and has held such prestigious engagements as the Stockholm City Hall for the city’s 750th Anniversary as well as several Nobel Prize Award affairs. Receiver of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Ferid Murad M.D/P.H.D, says, “Margareta was an artist that fully matched and complimented the elite company surrounding her... with her beautiful voice and classy persona.”

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