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Set Your Voice Free
Author: Roger Love with Donna Frazier
Publisher: Little Brown & Co.
Format: Softcover with instructional CD
Roger Love, internationally acclaimed vocal coach of the Beach Boys, the Jacksons, Chicago, and Hanson, among many other singing superstars, and voice coach to celebrity speakers such as John Gray, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Tony Robbins, reveals in this book and CD package the secrets to getting the singing or speaking voice you want. Now you can love the sound of your voice on your answering machine or be ready to speak or sing in front of any size audience with absolute confidence.
Anyone can achieve a powerful speaking voice or beautiful singing voice with Roger Love's simple techniques. Love helps you set personal vocal improvement goals and find and eliminate all recognizable flaws. He introduces the revolutionary concept of middle voice and asserts that by mastering it, you can connect to incredible parts of your voice you have never used before. Love promises that almost anyone can navigate smoothly through several octaves without pressure or strain, and he shows how and why that will improve the quality of your life.
Love's approach is comprehensive. He offers breathing exercises and a step-by-step practice routine. By listening and following along with the CD and practising at your own comfort level, you will learn the techniques Roger Love has used successfully with his world-famous clients, whose achievements provide inspiration throughout the book. Roger Love encourages you to personalize his lessons to fit them into individual schedules and lifestyles, and focuses on finding a personal style of singing or speaking that is right for you. His easy innovative techniques and enjoyable exercises will enable you to speak or sing fearlessly and deliver a message powerfully and effectively.
"Roger Love has found a way to train the voice and free the heart, mind, and spirit." — John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
"I had never realized how much our ability to speak comfortably and correctly matters to our psyches and our effectiveness in communication." — Laura Schlessinger, from the Foreword
"Over the years, I have worked with more vocal coaches — and tried more vocal techniques — than I care to remember. It wasn't until I met Roger Love that I gained 100 percent certainty that my voice would perform the way I expect and need it to. With Roger Love's new book, you too have the opportunity to learn from a truly amazing vocal master.." — Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power
"I study with Roger and you should too." — Joe Elliott, Lead singer, Def Leppard
"If you want to sing like the stars, Roger Love is the way." — Robert Lamm, Singer/songwriter, Chicago
Roger Love has been helping to build some of the most successful talents in the entertainment and business worlds. For over twenty years he has trained actors such as Victoria Principal, Stefanie Powers, Juliet Prowse, Janine Turner, John Stamos, Billy Baldwin, Milla Jovovitch, and Christopher Lambert. His work with artists in the studio has resulted in nearly 100 million album sales worldwide. Among his musical clients are Earth, Wind & Fire, the 5th Dimension, Three Dog Night, Matchbox 20, Wilson Phillips, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins, Robbie Robertson, Bernie Taupin, Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Phish, Al Jarreau, and Iggy Pop.
Donna Frazier spent eight years as an editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She is a poet and author.