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Discussion Title: Any of your kids under 14 and can sing amazingly?
Created by: nickandmeg...
Created on: Thu, 12/13/2007 - 4:30pm.
Created by: nickandmeg...
Created on: Thu, 12/13/2007 - 4:30pm.
- Any of your kids under 14 and can sing amazingly?
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Replied: 12/13/2007 5:44pm.
No, my only remaining under 14 kid sings better than she did 3 months ago, but she's pretty average. I enrolled her in a local children's choir and it helped train her ear. Before that, she was all over the scale, couldn't carry a tune in a front-end loader. Her vocal quality is normal for a 10 year-old, and she still scoops lots of her notes.
I have 25 and 27 year-olds who both sing well. My teen-agers and my 30 year-old sing as well as I do. Well enough that children don't get nightmares from our lullabies.
Replied: 12/14/2007 1:41pm.
I was a child into entertainment. I excelled at it. Through my twenties I sang, acted, danced, choreographed, taught dance, and taught voice. My wife has a degree in music education. Naturally, we would love for our children to be musically gifted. We are very carefull though. I cannot count the number of kids that I taught as teenagers that were pushed on stage when they were young. They were trained by these performance, kiddie pageant coaches or directors. All they taught them was how to smile and sing loud. By the time they are teens they have developed so many bad habits vocally it is hard to repair. In the meantime, other kids their age have naturally progressed and begin to get a little training...their voices sound more pure and unforced.
My advice (even to myself), don't get your kids performance coaches or voice coaches into performance. If you want your child to take voice lessons...go to your local college and ask the music department if there is a professor who teaches privately or any upperclass students they would suggest. These folks will be into the performance end far less...but will make sure they do it right.
It took me years to realize that it is sooo much more impressive to sing/dance hard songs/routines and make it look easy and unforced...than it easy to make every song a show.
Sorry, this is a sore subject for me. I have seen way too many kids WASTE talent by learning bad habits at nine..that they no longer can use their gifts as effectively at 16.
Replied: 12/14/2007 4:50pm.
My daughter is 12 and she is an AMAZING singer. Her and her friends started a band and she plays guitar AND sings. She will be famous one day(if all goes as planned). Her and her friends compete at fairs and have won many titles for their vocals and their musical talents. They are a very good band.
Replied: 12/19/2007 8:32pm.
My daughter is 1o and I make her sing all the time and she is amazingly amazing. Everyone she sings to is touched every time even though that isn't the kind of music she likes. Her favorite song to sing is Proud Mary byC.C.R.
Replied: 12/20/2007 11:22am.
Honestly, your kids need to learn to sing Classical first. It is harder and you HAVE to do it right. No offense, but I could teach a below average 10 year old to sing Proud Mary and do it in a way that will leave the common audience member very impressed.
If they learn to sing classical first...Proud Mary and those type of tunes become extremely easy...and you can do them better. There are a ton of great singers...the ones that tend to impress when they get older are the ones that can sing any style (you only learn that kind of control from scholastic voice teachers).
Just advice from someone who has been there/done that/got the t-shirt. I sang at Miss America State Pageants, stage shows from New York/Myrtle Beach/Nashville/Chicago/Dallas/Atlanta/and all across the nation, cruise ship entertainer, Broadway traveling cast...and have taught names many of you would immediately recognize when they were pre-teens/teens.
Also taught some kids that were much more talented than the ones who "made it" but they would not listen b/c their parents wanted them to put on a show.
Get good/solid training. Someone who knows the vocal organs in the body, and can teach your kids how to use it and take care of it.
JMHO
Replied: 1/25/2008 4:20pm.
Hi my daughter sings in the youth choir at Cabrillo college. I didn't say she couldn't sing classical I said her favorite song to sing was Proud Mary.
Replied: 1/27/2008 10:41am.
Well thank you for listing all your achievements. You must be very proud of yourself.
Replied: 3/27/2008 1:53pm.
well actually i have a pretty talented daughter she is 12 yeras old and loves to sing.Her name is brianna and i bet if she ever had a chance to show the world she could sing she would!!! 4rm:why me?
Replied: 3/28/2008 5:49pm.
stephy... lol
Replied: 3/28/2008 5:52pm.
Well, none of my kids is gonna be the next Britney Spears, I hope!