Mindfulness/Full awareness of emotions, thoughts and bodily sensations is a prerequisite for any singer that is serious about their evolution and their art. If you are not aware of your emotional and mental state as a singer, you will not be able to properly connect with your artistry, let alone with a song. If you are not aware of your bodily sensations, you will never properly internalize any new learned vocal technique. Without mindfulness, the audience will perceive your performance as any other mechanical routine. Mindfulness is oxygen to artistry.

If you have to ask, you’ll never know! If you have to ask why, perhaps you aren’t really committed to being an authentic person yet? Mindfulness is another word for Patience. Mindfulness is another word for intentionality. If you rush through a warm-up, we hear it, we see it, and it doesn’t hit. The felt experience of singing is easy to see, and if you are a singer skipping the warm-up, or possibly, afraid to develop your inner landscape because it is scary to face your truth, we (the audience) see it. Don’t skip the warm-up!! Develop your voice every chance you’ve got! Strive for nuance, and emotional clarity, not just the power notes or the sound. Go deep, or go home!

Your vocal chords are muscles and just as you warm up in the gym before you exercise before you start your workout the same process is necessary breathing and stretching is very important for stamina and clarity.