ABOUT LYNNE

Yes, that's me. My first performance was at the age of nine at the Royal Albert Hall, London in front of the Queen Mother. It was an evening called 'A Thousand Voices'. The choir singing was made up of school children who had been specially picked from over 400 London schools.  I felt honoured and I remember saying to my mum "if I hadn't been there it would have been called 999!”

 I was classically  ‘Bel Canto’ trained but I needed a more contemporary sound especially as I had joined a heavy rock band!  I was inspired by ‘Your Voice’ by Robert L Weer which introduced me to “singing on the speaking level”. Also, ‘Voice of the mind’ by Herbert E Caesari which introduced me to the sensations of singing. I started studying with Alma Caesari, his daughter and then travelled to the US to learn directly from Seth Riggs who had developed exercises for contemporary singing and named his method ‘speech level singing’. I was also a student of San Francisco teacher Dave Stroud.

I established my other web site www.speechlevel.com in 2001 when I became the very FIRST European associate of Seth Riggs, vocal coach to Grammy winners including; Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross & Barbra Streisand. I was the only English teacher working for him at his student summer camp in Bel Air, Los Angeles, where I met and learnt from teachers and students from San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida, Nashville and Sydney, Australia. I am no longer an associate but had grown in knowledge from the whole experience.

Chief features writer Tom King of the Evening Echo learning how to sing.