Our special guest is a vocal coach, studio owner, singer/songwriter and creator of the Singing / Straw™ & the S/S method which helps singers develop a healthier, stronger and more balanced voice.

She is the Founder and Lead Vocal Coach of Songbird Studios - a premier vocal coaching studio that offers singing lessons, voice lessons, vocal coaching, songwriting workshops, group classes, master classes, summer camps, and performance showcases in-person in San Francisco, California and online all over the world.

What You’ll Learn

Let us discover how The Singing / Straw™ is the next evolution in singing and how it changed Whitney Nichole’s life. She discusses how to use it in all of these more exciting, extreme ways of singing like belting and distortion.

Whitney shares how she came up with her dream product and how impactful and amazing this can be for your voice.

Whitney also shares some insights about retreats and conferences and how you're always going to get something out of it. She has this mindset that “I am going to learn so much and take so much from this, even if it's what I don't want to do.”

Things We Discussed

The Singing / Straw™ - The first of its kind: a patented, reusable, sustainable and customizable straw phonation tool set for singers, speakers, and vocalists that promotes vocal efficiency and reduces tension.

Straw phonation - Singing through a straw is a powerful “semi-occluded vocal tract”(SOVT) exercise, which means that as you vocalize, the air coming out of your mouth is partially blocked. This creates a resistance in the vocal tract, which sends energy back to the vocal folds and helps them vibrate more efficiently.

SOVT - stands for Semi Occluded Vocal Tract. A fancy way to say - the mouth is partially closed.

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