How to keep your singing voice strong over time
Many adult singers ask some version of this question: How do I keep my singing voice strong as the years go by? Is it simply a matter of age, or is there something more within our control?
The honest answer is that strength in the voice is rarely about age alone. It is far more often about how the voice has been used, how regularly it has been exercised, and whether the fundamentals have been properly understood.
I have been singing and studying seriously for decades, and I am still preparing and presenting repertoire myself. I still think carefully about vocal load. I still look at range, tessitura, stamina, and recovery time before committing to a programme. Not because I am fragile, but because I understand that the voice responds to patterns. It responds to repetition. It responds to intelligent use.
The same is true at forty as it is at seventy.
The voice responds to use, not to wishful thinking
Like any coordinated muscular system, the voice strengthens through regular, th...
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