Singing with Your Own Voice is a comprehensive, practical, and encouraging book full of exercises and tips for anyone who wants to - even needs to - sing. Actors in straight plays, performers in musicals, professionals and amateurs, even people singing in choirs or bands will all benefit from Orlanda Cook's expert guidance. Cook lays bare basic truths about singing. We are born noisy -- singing is part of what human animals do. Yet often we are inhibited as singers because we worry that we aren't doing it right or creating the right sound. Cook shows that the breadth and potential of the...

A comprehensive instruction manual on how to liberate the singing voice that is within each one of us. Full of practical exercises, the book starts with an overhaul of our attitude to our voice. Topics covered include: overcoming inhibition; sound and resonance; and using your imagination.