To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: RE: speech-level singing
Date sent: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:50:16 -0800
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

I speak with a fairly low voice (I'm a soprano, which no one believes until
they hear me sing!). But it's not something I artificially lower - I've just
always spoken in chest voice. Is there some way to develop a mixed voice
when speaking? Head voice makes me sound like a little girl, or a whacked
out opera singer :o).

Jennifer


> > I agree with Lisa-Marie's comment -- I find that many,
> > many women speak with an artificially lowered speaking
> > tone.
>
> I wonder if South American women are particularly prone to this. I used
> to sing in an amateur Spanish choir and was struck by the (Venezuelan,
> Argentine, Uruguayan) sopranos' deep, almost mannish speaking voices.
> Something to do with standing up to macho attitudes?