Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla on the revolutionary singing technique that stops singers losing their voices

'The voice is the perfect musical instrument'   When Lisa Paglin met Marianna Brilla, Marianna was questioning everything about the voice.  Degrees from prestigious schools, international studies with 27 world-renowned teachers and a Fulbright Award had proven to her that clear criteria for achieving ease, perfect intonation and simple communication through the word in singing was no longer available anywhere.  Despite personal dissatisfaction, she was sought after as a singer and began a successful career. But, determined to rediscover the foundations of fine singing, Marianna left the stage and began challenging fallacies, inaccuracies and misinformation.  Lisa was an accomplished pianist and singer from early childhood. As a young soprano at the Vienna Staatsoper, she drew much praise for her voice and musicality, but confusing vocal instruction, combined with a period of poor health, threw her off-balance.  Longing to return to effortless and joyful singing, Lisa consulted prominent teachers, to no avail.   She joined Marianna, and together they completed over 15 years of painstaking research, resulting in a thorough understanding of voice.   Their methods for voice training and vocal rehabilitation, Vocal Balance™ and Vocal Restoration™, were born.  Read the Guardian article that inspired me to contact them for singing lessons LYRICS to the resulting song: I'd been driving for years Lost in foreign lands Searching for answers Some guiding hands I'd gone cross country Even lost the road I was given directions By people, far gone themselves But it was in my darkest hour That I heard her name Whispered on the wind And I was guided to a place The parking lot was packed the queue went round the block But a desperate man won't be denied I found a window unlocked I climbed into her chamber And poured out my heart Of how I'd lost my voice somewhere She watched me in the dark "Your problems obvious You've forced your tone Singing should be an effortless thing Leave well alone" After an hour together I felt changes deep inside And I walked out the door two inches taller With words to reach the sky And I could sing sing sing Such a pure and simple thing Go within And let it ring Yes I could sing