BeingaSinger Format: TradePaperback

Being a Singer: The Art, Craft, and Science provides the solutions you need to make practical, consistent changes in your singing. This book pulls back the curtain on how singing actually works, from cognition to anatomy to your amazing hearing system and even your instincts and emotions. Based on well-established and proven training approaches, supported by vocal science, neuroscience and motor learning, Being a Singer offers clear tools and strategies that train your voice, empower you to find solutions, build your awareness, and develop confidence. Stories and interviews will inspire you. Exercises with clear how-to's will give you clarity. Self-assessments and troubleshooting will empower you. Ultimately, your own experience will train your voice, mind, and body. Recordings of the exercises are available online at the author's website.

Linda Balliro, Associate Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music, has been nominated for a Grammy as Music Educator of the Year. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in vocal performance, she performed as a classical singer in Europe for over a decade. Balliro has been studying vocal pedagogy and teaching privately for over 20 years. Her clients include nationally touring musicians, local artists, emerging broadway performers, young opera singers, children, and teens. Currently, a Master's candidate at King's College in Applied Neuroscience.