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Gratitude, the fundamental practice for all creatives – Episode 1 of December Voicings

Leave a Comment / Creativity, Learning, Performing, Podcast, Practice, Soul, Teaching, Voicings / By Katja

Welcome to December VOICINGS: a Christmas calendar podcast for artists, teachers and creatives. In the podcast, I’ll share thoughts and practices to help you connect to your creative Source, to your inspiration, to your own voice, to your craft and to your art, and to help shine some light on the areas that might need …

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Finding the essence of your work as an artist or teacher

Leave a Comment / Creativity, Learning, Mind, Performing, Soul, Teaching, Voice / By Katja

Today, I want to share with you something that happened in a lesson I taught exactly 1 year ago. This event made me reflect on the very essence of my work as a teacher, coach and artist. I shared it on my Instagram back then, but wanted to share it with you now here on …

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How to sustain your long notes and phrases by expanding at the heart

2 Comments / Singing Technique, Singing Tips, Voice / By Katja

As you sing long phrases or notes, you want to sustain a stable sound until the end of the phrase and also not run out of air too fast, right? But what if the endings “fade out”, get less powerful in volume, or even a bit wobbly? You may have tried things like optimizing your …

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Online Lessons For Sale!

Leave a Comment / Business, Teaching, Uncategorized / By Katja

Now that so many people are facing the need to move their teaching and activities online, I am spotting the following trend: Teachers are offering their online lessons at (much) lower rates than their “usual”, in-person lessons. I feel compelled to speak up about this. When I see online lessons offered at a lower rate …

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Lessons from 10 years of being an artistpreneur

Leave a Comment / Business, Creativity, Making Your Life As An Artist, Practice, Uncategorized / By Katja

October is here! And I’m celebrating the 10th anniversary of my company Katja Maria Music! Actually, I’ve been a teacher and artist for more than 2 decades, but 10 years ago I decided to set out on the path of an entrepreneur. And that calls for a celebration! Many celebrations actually: 10 years of being a …

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How Marie Kondo helped me find back my Voice

Leave a Comment / Creativity, Making Your Life As An Artist, Voicings / By Katja

Today, I want to share a very personal story with you. I’m writing to you now from a cozy café in Lisbon, Portugal, where I have been soaking up sunshine and inspiration, and preparing my new talk show & podcast VOICINGS to be ready to go out in the world. In VOICINGS we will dig deep …

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Does Creativity Benefit From Having Rules?

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Katja

An album I’ve been listening to a lot this past year is Peter Gabriel’s ‘Scratch My Back’. The album consists of cover songs, in Gabriel’s words it’s “the dreaded cover album” that some artists set out to make. The album’s title comes from the idea: “if you do one of my songs, I’ll do …

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Vocal Hydration Plan In Action

Leave a Comment / Vocal Health / By Katja

Now that we learned why we should hydrate in order to have a healthy voice, and talked about hydrating the vocal folds internally, let’s have a look at topical hydration. The word ‘topical’ means something is applied directly to a part of the body, in this case the vocal folds (or the nasal passage). This week, …

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Optimal Hydration For A Healthy Voice

Leave a Comment / Anatomy, Vocal Health, Voice / By Katja

We all know it’s important to stay hydrated, but why exactly is hydration so important for the voice? In this 2-part blog post series we’ll first dive into why keeping the vocal folds hydrated is important from an anatomical point of view, the different types of hydration there is (systemic and topical), and the various factors …

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