Why I Love to Sing?

         Yay! Happy 100 th Blog Post! Thank you for reading my Blog and continuing to work toward your BEST Performing Self. This is just the first of several posts on “Choosing the Positive in Life”, which I’ll be posting soon. Check it out, and let me know how well this works for you! People are always asking me how I can stay positive, and, even more important, how THEY can GET positive. Today’s fast-paced lifestyle can be discouraging, overwhelming, and incredibly stressful. So, how can you possibly INJEST all the craziness of daily living, and CONVERT all those pressures and heaviness into a relaxing, enjoyable, and satisfying existence? This is important for EVERYONE. However, it is CRUCIAL for performers because the slightest tension or struggle a person is experiencing will immediately ‘read’ on his or her face, and be communicated to your audience. These wonderful, BASIC expressions are affirmative, uplifting, and TRUE! Print them out! Make certain you read a numbe

         As performers, whether actors, speakers, or singers, it is a NECESSITY to be able to communicate a LOT, a PLETHORA of different emotions, moods, and “feelings”. Those “entertainers” who sing or speak utilizing only one volume, positioning their arms the same way throughout each piece, maintaining the identical demeanor during every single performance are BORING, monotonous, and, honestly, failures. I’m sorry, but your JOB as a performer to take your audience, whether one person or one million, on a journey. This journey SHOULD be an “adventure” of sorts that helps or allows an audience member to follow YOU through an experience to some kind of encouraging, hopeful conclusion. People’s lives, are MOSTLY about routine and even struggle and stress. When they come out to hear and see a show of any kind, they want to be lifted beyond their daily lives, perhaps taken to a place of their dreams. This could be anything from a wonderful love story to an up-beat an