Ep.70 Coaching Contemporary Commercial Music With Kim Chandler

This week's guest is Kim Chandler, a renowned contemporary vocal coach and session singer who teaches professional singers from her studio in Marbella. Her career as a performer has seen her provide vocals for TV and film and she often presents workshops for teachers of voice. Kim has also created the Funky'n'Fun vocal exercise series and a curriculum poster used by fellow contemporary voice teachers in their studios. Kim joins Alexa on Singing Teachers Talk all the way from sunny Spain. 

KEY MOMENTS

‘The more you do it, the better you get, the more exposure you get’ 

‘I like the challenge of not knowing what I need to do next’

‘We’re like the decathletes of the singing world as session singers’

RELEVANT LINKS & MENTIONS

• Michael McDonald Top of the Pops: YouTube.com/watch?v=DapM2CSVdUg
• Humidiflyer
• Curriculum Poster
• The Ultimate Vocal Voyage by Daniel Zangger Borch 
• Funky Fundamentals Online Course
• Training Contemporary Commercial Singers by Elizabeth Ann Benson 
• (YouTube) Breaking Down the Riffs by Natalie Weiss.
• Fun Vocal Exercises for Improvisation by John Fluker

ABOUT THE GUEST 

Kim Chandler is a renowned contemporary vocal coach/session singer. She runs a busy studio in Marbella, Spain, coaching arena-level band singers, charting artists & professional vocalists. Kim also helps singers rebuild their voices after surgery & rehabilitation and has worked with HMUK for years in this capacity.

Kim has decades of high-end performing experience. Her voice is heard on TV series, films, albums, cruise ship shows, thousands of jingles worldwide and has backed & supported many international artists. Kim has performed at some of London's most iconic locations such as the Royal Albert Hall and Buckingham Palace.

Kim is regularly invited to lead workshops, teacher training events and present at voice conferences. She spent more than a decade in leadership positions for the British Voice Association, as President & Director and Head of Communications, and as a Principal/Senior Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire & London College of Music.

Her pedagogical output features in academic compendiums such as "Training Contemporary Commercial Singers" and "Teaching Singing in the 21st Century". Kim is the creator of the popular "Funky 'n Fun" vocal exercise series used by singers, teachers and institutions alike and a new curriculum poster for CCM teaching studios.

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