When you hear an amazing singer with a great voice, you might ask yourself what the normal life span of such a voice might be, and whether proper training or certain techniques prevent vocal cords deteriorating with age, and if surgery or some sort of special gel could correct such problems
Voice experts believe that one should think of singers as athletes, using muscles in what is, after all a very physical activity. Professional singer, as well as acting as voice instructor at the Minneapolis MacPhail Centre for Music, Andrea Leap tells that all depends on the amount of use.
Like anything else, you have to use it or risk losing it, because muscles lose strength and agility through aging, making more effort a requirement for continuing use, …show more content…
They have to maintain good general health, get sufficient good quality rest, and enough hydration, vital in keeping any singers voice in good order, something clearly not the case with the tragic Whitney Houston, though even with good health habits, vocal cords do stiffen as singers get older.
The more vocal membranes are used, the more fibrous and stiff they become, resulting in diminished vibration amplitude, meaning that the singer has to use more air pressure, from the lungs. to cause vocal cords to vibrate, usually the result of decades of voice use, and lots of singers develop vocal cord growths or nodules that often bleed and can scar, making the voice more hoarse in quality.
Surgeries to remove such growths are much more common these days, but especially among opera singers, because of substantial demands on their voices. One voice surgical specialist has been developing a special gel that he hopes, when put to use, will allow restoration and preservation of the voices of
Voice experts believe that one should think of singers as athletes, using muscles in what is, after all a very physical activity. Professional singer, as well as acting as voice instructor at the Minneapolis MacPhail Centre for Music, Andrea Leap tells that all depends on the amount of use.
Like anything else, you have to use it or risk losing it, because muscles lose strength and agility through aging, making more effort a requirement for continuing use, …show more content…
They have to maintain good general health, get sufficient good quality rest, and enough hydration, vital in keeping any singers voice in good order, something clearly not the case with the tragic Whitney Houston, though even with good health habits, vocal cords do stiffen as singers get older.
The more vocal membranes are used, the more fibrous and stiff they become, resulting in diminished vibration amplitude, meaning that the singer has to use more air pressure, from the lungs. to cause vocal cords to vibrate, usually the result of decades of voice use, and lots of singers develop vocal cord growths or nodules that often bleed and can scar, making the voice more hoarse in quality.
Surgeries to remove such growths are much more common these days, but especially among opera singers, because of substantial demands on their voices. One voice surgical specialist has been developing a special gel that he hopes, when put to use, will allow restoration and preservation of the voices of