🎤 Voice Note: Things I Wish I'd Known About Singing Before I Started

The number one mistake singers make is comparing their voice to someone else’s. It’s the fastest track to failure — and I did it for years.In this episode, I share the story of how I started singing in the first place. How my family lost everything when I was 10, how three girls harmonizing in my apartment complex changed my life, and how I spent years trying to sound like Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey before realizing the whole approach was wrong. I even tried to switch to the alto section in choir because I wanted to sound like Nina Simone. My teacher sent me back to the sopranos in about 15 minutes.What I talk about:* How losing gymnastics, dance, and art led me to discover singing out of necessity* Why copying your favorite singer gets you only so far — and why it makes you forgettable* The model analogy — embracing your freckles and blonde eyebrows instead of trying to look like everyone else* Why sensation and feeling matter more than how you sound* If you feel good when you sing — no strain, vibrations in your face and chest, energized afterward — you sound good. Full stop.* The documentary being filmed this Friday about me and The Healthy Voice* Singing “I Want a Voice” for the first time in front of an audience — a song I wrote 15 years ago after leaving a destructive relationship, and how it feels completely different in my body now* A teaser of the original recording (the full song is coming in a future chapter of Singing Through the Shadows)Your voice is a product of your genetics, your culture, your environment, the people you’ve been around, the music you’ve listened to, and everything you’ve survived. Stop trying to trade it in for someone else’s.🎤 THE VOICE LIBERATION METHOD: https://the-healthy-voice-community.circle.so/untitled-page-1-e9c083🌟 JOIN THE COMMUNITY (songwriting workshops at Practitioner + Mastery levels): https://the-healthy-voice-community.circle.so/untitled-page📖 SINGING THROUGH THE SHADOWS: www.thehealthyvoicewrites.com🎁 FREE VOICE LIBERATION GUIDE: https://bella-payne.kit.com/freeguide📱 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/the_healthy_voice/ Get full access to The Healthy Voice Writes at rawveganbella.substack.com/subscribe