Vocal Freedom Episode 23 - Kim Chandler

My guest this week is Kim Chandler, a renowned CCM vocal coach & session singer. She runs a busy private studio in Marbella (Spain) where she coaches a worldwide clientele of signed artists, professional singers and other vocal coaches online. Since 2004 she has run a successful online recording business with her producer husband (www.virtualvocals.com) and has led large corporate recording sessions at London’s Abbey Road Studios since 2011.

Kim coaches high-profile artists and has worked as a vocal coach for audition tours of “The Voice UK”. She is regularly invited to run master classes, workshops & teacher training events and is also a regular presenter at national & international voice conferences, including being a keynote speaker in her home country of Australia.

In the academic world, Kim is the “Head of Communications”, past president and director of the British Voice Association, was a principal/senior lecturer at Leeds College of Music & London College of Music respectively and was the Head of Vocals at Vocaltech (now BIMM London). Her pedagogical work features in many masters & doctoral theses and in compendiums such as “Training Contemporary Commercial Singers” (Compton), “Teaching Singing in the 21st Century” (Springer) and “The Ultimate Guide To Singing” (TC-Helicon). Kim is the sole creator of the popular “Funky ‘n Fun” vocal exercise series (www.funkynfun.com).

As a performer, Kim has three decades of high-end performing experience in both live performance and studio singing. Aside from her voice being heard on films, albums, cruise shows and thousands of jingles worldwide, she has also sung with artists such as The Bee Gees, Natalie Cole, Michael McDonald, Bjork, Michael Bolton and Susan Boyle, in addition to having performed at some of London’s most iconic locations such as the Royal Albert Hall, Downing Street, Wembley Arena & Stadium, the O2 Arena and Buckingham Palace (www.kimchandler.com).