Baby Boomers: Re-Ignite your singing for pleasure and health with Laurece West. Ep. 13.
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You may have started singing spontaneously many years ago and stopped. Or slowed down. Maybe you never sang, and now singing is creeping up from the back of your mind. It is a new time and singing has many emotional, health, and brain benefits. In this episode we speak of many of those benefits, as well as the energy benefits with Laurece West.
Approximate Show times:
2:00- Some people sing, some do not. Why?
2:50- It’s a human right.
3:40- Families that sing.
5:40- What Laurece has found about those who sing in church choirs.
6:17- The shower is a good place to start.
9:17- What if someone wants to sing Country and Western, Rock, or other genre, does that change?
9:47- Follow the heart, sing what you are passionate about.
10:20- The benefits of singing.
11:47- People want to listen to a voice that sounds good.
12:13- Vocal chords are where grief gets stopped.
14:36- As we begin to vibrate when singing, grief is released, and you will laugh more.
15:15- Sinuses have cleared.
16:40-Heterosexual men socialized out of crying.
18:27- Women have a cry every 6-8 session because of the release.
19:05- It’s different with gay men.
19:50- Watch Mel Blanc documentary, the voice of Looney Tunes characters.
20:20- Make voices up in the car.
20:51- Gay men have more range than heterosexuals.
21:35- Benefits to demential patients.
22:00- Can almost be like psychotherapy.
22:30- You can sing without a teacher.
22:56- Alzheimers experiences.
25:40- How do we start to sing?
26:20- Singing is easier than speaking.
30:00 - Sing to your pets….talk with melody.
31:32- Summary to start.
31:50- Beware of critical feedback.
33:00- A person who is really doing their art will never be critical.
34:32- The more you sing, the better you get.
35:04- Music Laurece listens to.
39:36- Death and dying. Looking back from 95 to today.
43:51- Music as expressing truth and artistry.
45:48- Your voice is a carrier wave.
49:57- One big take away.
Resources
Mel Blanc - Man of a Thousand Voices. The voice of Looney Tunes characters.
Voice and Performance coach Laurece West trains active and aspiring professionals and gospel singers in skills, strategy and mindset to significantly improve their sound, range, flexibility, power, ease, artistry and ability to move their audiences. They learn to sing easily with energy, heart and confidence.
She offers individual and group coaching packages for dedicated singers and monthly workshops for beginners.
You may contact Laurece at:
www.laureceweststudios.com
(919) 383-4876 land line
(919) 627-2845 texts
Music
Morgan James "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"
Anything by Morgan James amazing covers of famous songs and full albums
Nora Jones "Comes Love"
Laurece West
https://laurecewest.bandcamp.com/
Anais Mitchell
"The Wall" (genius songwriter)
Tam Lin with Jefferson Hamer
Nikki Yanofsky
"Lullaby of Birdland" and many other stunning jazz covers
The Rascals
Over the Rhine - I’m on a Roll.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra - In the Mood.
Planet BoomerVille is for Baby Boomers and is about being Stellar and Living Life Lively. That means Baby Boomer brain and physical health. Baby Boomer family relationships, love, sex, and romance. Making new friends. Appreciating old friends. Lot's of music, new and old. It is about new life beginning and adventures. Planet BoomerVille is about embracing the future and making your now as big as your past. Maybe bigger and even better. Why not? Why not you?