A chatty podcast raising awareness about vocal health and wellbeing, from voice, performance and wellbeing coach Leigh Martyn Thomas and her guests in media, education & the performing arts.
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Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
My guest this week is Singing & Music Theory Specialist and Music Consultant Joanna Wilson. Joanna started her musical career playing violin as a child and was fortunate to tour with Manchester Youth Orchestra before moving to London to start her professional training at 18.
As you’ll discover, Joanna had to move on from the Violin and it is here she moved into her singing training, from which she went on to work as a professional Opera Singer, living the 8-shows-as-week lifestyle, before branching into teaching others from 2009.
It has not always been easy to manage but I find it helpful to hear about the struggles as well as the successes and note the value in all we experience. Even the toughest of times, that might have felt heart-breaking at the time, can steer us onto our true path and become a valuable part of our story.
Approx times
00:00 - 1.25. Introduction to Joanna and her background
1:25 - How would you describe the journey with your voice?
2:25 - Music gave me opportunities and this early start fuelled the passion
2:50 - Moving to London at 18! Feeling like a small fish in a very big sea!
3.50 - Amazing teacher Elizabeth (Libby) Hawes and how singing allowed me to stay a musician
6:25 - Winning the leavers prize the Singing Faculty Award.
8:00 - Life took over for a bit then professional work followed
8:35 - Living my best life - costumes, make up, wigs!
9:00 - The stress of trying to generate the next job
10:20 - Becoming a Creative Arts teacher with young children
10:45 - Teaching became my day job “Miss Joanna’s Music Box”
11:45 - Working with a rapper!
12:45 - Underpinning with solid technique, starts with the breath
14:00 - Singing is everything to me! My Voice is my job!
14:25 - Special memories from touring in Italy
17:14 - Realising I want to stand up there in front of the Orchestra
18:15 -Visit Gallery on Joanna's website to see some lovely costumes!
18:26 - Is there anything you know now you wish you had known sooner?
18:35 - Personal growth and how it has helped
20:45 - The inner critic verses the inner coach
21:55 - Deepak Chopra 21 day challenge
22:15 - Holistic approach to improving lifestyle and noticing old programming that holds us back
23:00 - Ambitious as a child and early manifestations!
25:00 - Music elevated me out, I was able to mix in a whole new way
26:45 - Musical instruments in schools these days?
27:15 - Expression and Music with young children
29:00 - Instilling a love of music and how it brings a rounded education
30:55 - Your body is your instrument
32:00 - When you do what you love it doesn’t feel like work!
32:55 - What voices inspire you?
Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan, Glenn Mller Orchestra
Elvis Presley, Bill haley and the comets
34:00 - When I saw Ella Fitzgerald headlining at the Royal Albert Hall!
Barbra Streisand Donna Summer - No More Tears
36:00 - The journey into Opera
37:55 - The best voice ever - this is the one - my true love - Jessye Norman
41:30 - What does your voice mean to you?
42:20 - People pleasing and how life can send us turns in the road we weren’t expecting
43:55 - I’m so much better at saying No!
44:30 - We just want to give give give but we have to remember to keep ourselves healthy first
46:00 - Choice of song is so important, building rep based on what you relate to
49:25 - All about Joanna’s services
52:00 - Adapting and creating through adversity
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