I invested about 8,000 dollars in my daughter's voice. She started piano and dropped it. She couldn't sing but had an instructor with a Master's Degree in Music as a vocal coach. There were scales, exercises, breathing lessons, warm ups, tips for singing with a cold, sight reading, and tons of other stuff included. And this is at a very low level, you can go to any great music school and pay 50k a year for voice lessons.

So I TOTALLY disagree you have to be born with it. Anyone, given 2 hours a day work, a good teacher, and proper preparation, work ethic, and support can learn the instrument called voice just like they can learn the clarinet.

Our local university has a Dr. of music (and she's a good friend.wings and beverages once a week) who has written a book on singing for seniors, and runs such a program for seniors.

A voice is an instrument. Mines damaged. (Radiation burns) And I'm still trying. Very trying.

Just ask the wife.

My daughter went from a very poor singer to a passable one. At the present she's too much into other things, like trying to figure out how to leave home at 20 and still travel the world with her friends.

John Conley
Musica est vita