Can Anyone Sing?

You think I’m going to say yes. Why do you think I’m going to say yes? Because you think I’m going to try to convince you that you can sing. And you think it’s good for my business and that I like to be nice and that I am an encourager. And you would be right about all of those things. You know how good it would be for a voice coach’s career to magically make anyone sing? Or worse, make people believe they can sing, sell them on a dream, and never give them real results? Which by the way is what a lot of voice coaches do. Sad.

But you’re in luck because I’m not a liar. And I actually care about you and not wasting your time. Which is why I’ll tell you… no, not everyone can sing. But it’s not for the reasons you think.

It’s not because you don’t have what it takes. In fact, you totally do. If you’re able to cough, congratulations you have been blessed with a larynx. You have vocal folds that stretch and change and in fact can be built.

It’s not because you’re tone deaf. In fact, did you know that tone deafness isn’t real? You wouldn’t be able to differentiate vocal tones. You may lack tonal consciousness, but that too can be built.

Okay Dianne, what’s the reason? What’s the thing keeping anyone from being able to sing? It’s because if you don’t want to sing, you can’t sing. And I can’t help you. I’m like the genie in Aladdin… I can’t make anyone fall in love. I can’t make you want what you don’t want.

Remember how I told you you’re in luck earlier? This is why. Because if you’re watching this and you in fact *want* to sing and sing well, you can absolutely do that. There really isn’t anything stopping you.

Not your pitch perception, not the shape of your head, not the fact that no one in your family is musical, not the fact that you don’t have a piano, not the fact that you’ve never done it before… none of that can stop you.

So yes, anyone can sing… if they want to. But no, not anyone can sing.