>>"These singers had only added an open chest voice to their "legit" head voice. There was not a smooth transition from one to the other, and they literally sounded as if they were singing with two different voices, with all the accompanying pitch problems etc., that ensued. Those that had smoother transitions did it by singing at a lower volume, and lacked voices that had any interesting depth or color. >>"
This is something that I'm always hearing from students of teachers who believe that they should classically train their singers and then just get them to add a "belty" chest voice and voila, they can do theatre and pop singing. I don't think so!
It is possible, however, to be trained well enough to sing classical rep. with the sound qualities necessary to do justice to that music and also to switch to a "popsy" sound when performing something from say, "Rent". I've heard it done and really admire those who can do it well.
Jacqueline
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