(How to Become the Best Backup Singer Ever) My name is Kristin, and I am addicted to harmony. As a singer, I intend for this statement to be interpreted musically. But as I find daily, as I go in Music, so I go in Life. So, let’s start, as is my wont, with a […]
On any given morning, I may be in my yoga class at the Y, awkwardly arranging myself into some nice, juicy, seated asana in celebration of having arduously completed my standing poses. With a sense of relief, I close my eyes to settle in. Without fail, my wonderfully aware teacher immediately hollers out, “Eyes open! […]
This is a bad year for the flu – and I’m sure that’s not news to you. As a vocalist, you need to be extra careful with preventive care – you can’t cancel a gig just because you’re sick. I’ve had to perform long gigs while sick more times than I wish. It’s not […]
Question: What do Florence Foster Jenkins, Virtue Epistemology, and a Major League Baseball game have in common? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And yet…? These three completely unrelated items came together this week in a meaningful way in the dark and murky corners of my hypomanic mind, as I was considering a question that nags at some […]
Well, that’s got to be a typo. Kristin is clearly on the hooch. She obviously intended to write an article on Breathing for Singing, but she got the title of her own blog wrong. Did I? Oh, did I? One day, I had a first lesson with a new student. I was having him vocalize […]
One evening recently, I received a text from one of my students. It went along the lines of, “There’s something that’s been really upsetting me lately. Could we spend some time at my lesson discussing it?” Being a Philadelphian by birth and temperament, my mind instantly conjured up the worst possible scenarios that could involve […]
by Kristin Henry I was recently engaged in the annual joyful task of preparing my band’s tax forms – whoever decided to hand the financial responsibilities over to me was clearly a lunatic – and as I proudly penned a whopping “$1,000.00” on line 7 (Nonemployee compensation) of my own 1099-MISC, the person I was […]
OK. Yes. It’s been FOREVER since my last newsletter. First reason: I asked a question in the last newsletter that I had to ponder myself a lot over the last few weeks. It took me a while to be able to answer my own question, even though honestly, I’ve been thinking about it for years. […]
What do you believe you can’t do? Can you not write songs? Can you not play guitar? Can you not be the lead singer of a band? Can you not land a nightly house gig in Dubai? If you’ve been on my email list for a while, or you know me in person, hopefully […]
There was a girl who wanted to be in a band. She had performed singing before, but never with a live band. And she had never used a microphone in her life! She answered a few Craigslist ads and ended up trying out for a band. But in the audition, hearing her voice through the […]
