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Sound Like Yourself

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The voice you're looking for is already here.

Hunt for the treasure.

I've spent a lifetime making maps for us.

Wait.  Listen.  What's coming alive?

Draw your own maps.

Sound like yourself.

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SING for your F*ing LIFE!

Let's sing.

Teaching voice one-on-one is what I love most.

Each student is their own creature, and it's a delight to discover what their voice needs most.

Every voice I have ever met needs MORE kindness and time to play while immersed in the deep, painstaking process of mastery.  

I'll keep it fun.

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Vocal Technique is not THE treasure, but it provides orientation.  Technique untangles.  Clarifies.  Gives us one job at a time.

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You will learn breath support, agility, flexibility, steady resonance, placement, vowel clarity, diction, legato, vibrato, phrasing, blah blah blah.

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Technique is yours to own and wield.  It's built through small, slow, correct repetitions over time.

 

I am responsible for making sure you leave every lesson with a clear, achievable aspect of your voice to track.

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To learn to sing, your voice has to be allowed free rein to sing.  

 

So let me say it, now and forever:  you are allowed free rein to sing.  

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Bring songs you love so we can walk the terrain. I'll bring songs I love, too.  Let's get wailing! 

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Nothing brought me into the pleasure of singing more than when I started singing with drones: shruti boxes, tanpuras - anything can be a drone.  A drone gives us something like a "ground" - a steady partner who helps our voice find its feet.  We can deepen and explore the voice without asking it to perform a song correctly.

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Eventually, something starts to happen: the voice wants to move.  

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This is improvisation.

 

There is no way to fuck it up.  It's not scary; it's the underlying structure of singing: one note after another.

 

Bobby McFerrin once put it beautifully: improvisation is forward motion. 

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The voice can talk to your whole body. It can talk to your whole life.  

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There is a long history of research and writing on the physical and emotional effects of singing.

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As a singer, I know how I feel after I sing.  I'm usually glad I opened my mouth and let it rip.

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I'm not a therapist or a somatic coach, and definitely not a healer.  But I have witnessed over and over the emotional and physical effects of a voice moving through a person.

 

When we sing, we breathe differently, we vibrate, we listen, we move, and we pay attention all at once.  Over several minutes, this can dramatically change how we feel.

Practice is NOT a heroic effort.  it's not a frenetic training montage. Most students come to me ashamed that they don't have "discipline."  Students expect a fucking productivity sermon from me. NOPE.

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In lessons I'll teach you how to practice without making it about "working hard enough."  

We take one aspect of what we are learning.

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We practice calmness, orientation. focus, specificity, kindness.  Through more repetitions than one might think.  And we work in small doses at this intensity. 

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We find one thing: a sensation, a sound, the thought that preceded it.  One flag to plant in your body.  We repeat it slowly and accurately, enough times for you to say "Yep, I get it."

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WHAT WE DO IN LESSONS:

Singing brings people together.  It synchronizes breath and heartbeats, releases bonding chemicals, connects us in ways beyond words.

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I lead bespoke group singing experiences for people of all ages and backgrounds, tailored for specific participants and occasions.  You don't need any previous singing experience—just a willingness to join in. Whether it's a party, classroom, company event, or community gathering, I help groups discover what happens when everyone is listening, singing, and creating something together.

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For several years I was the High Priestess of Voice Cult at House of Yes, leading participatory singing experiences for hundreds of people.  

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I would love to talk to you about how I could bring singing to you and your community.

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Many brilliant and wildly competent professionals struggle with their voices in meetings, presentations, and high-stakes environments. 

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I help professionals across industries use their voice with more clarity, calm, and command.

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Whether you're leading a meeting, giving a keynote, interviewing, recording a podcast, or having a difficult conversation, knowing how to use your voice increases your agency.

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Together we learn how to:

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• Stay physically grounded when the stakes are high.
• Steady your breath instead of fighting it.
• Speak with clarity, authority, and ease.
• Turn a presentation you dread into something you can actually enjoy performing.

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Public speaking is a performance. Like any performance, it becomes easier when you know what your body is doing.  (Add fun and it can become performance art.)

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Many companies subsidize professional development like this for their employees.

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  • SINGING is FORWARD MOTION

  • You don't have to be a supermodel

    to do the animal thing,
    You don't have to be a supergenius

    to open your face up and SING

    -Ani DiFranco

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About Daisy

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I grew up under the stage of a mythic rock-and-roll tour, where extremely loud voices ruled the world. It probably isn't surprising that I became obsessed with the human voice. I've spent my life wanting to understand my own voice—and, in tandem, wanting to know everything about yours. Over the last 25 years, I’ve built a career as a professional singer across opera, experimental, classical, and pop stages in the U.S. and Europe.  Alongside that work, teaching is vital and irreplaceable. My students are some of my favorite humans. I come equipped. My training includes classical technique with Trish McCaffrey, Heidi Skok, and Hilda Harris; Hindustani raga with Michael Harrison; and decades of embodied stage work, ensemble collaborations, and ritual performance. I hold degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the Manhattan School of Music, where I later served on the faculty. Teaching has included private voice lessons, vocal coaching, theory-for-singers, group embodiment labs, Indian raga and Hildegard workshops, and online/in-person offerings. I created and led the performance workshop VOICE CULT at House of Yes in Brooklyn for several years and led thrice-weekly online vocal meditations during the pandemic. ​ For more information about my career as a performer and soloist, click here.

Daisy as a performer

students say:

  • Jordan Cavalier

    I have had a lot of teachers over the years, but very few cared to find the exact right way to make the thing you're trying to teach a joy for the student. 

  • Anya Sapoznikova

    I didn't become my full self until I was able to sing.  Daisy gave me this gift.

  • Violet Newman

    Daisy has my heart. She helped me find my voice technically and metaphysically.

  • Molly Thompson

    Daisy is an amazing voice teacher who has helped me discover new parts of my voice and expand my vocal range. More than anything, she's helped me rediscover my love of singing.  Every lesson is fun, inspiring, and something I look forward to each week.

All lessons are an hour long. 

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Weekly lessons are $135 per lesson. The most successful students reserve a regular weekly time and commit to a steady monthly rhythm.

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Occasional lessons: $150 per lesson. These are available as-needed for students who aren't maintaining a regular weekly schedule.

Everyone. ALL LEVELS are WELCOME! Whatever brings you here, I'm excited to hear your voice and sing with you.

 

My students are (yes) singers, acrobats, writers, entrepreneurs, parents, lawyers, painters, counselors, scientists, quirky teenagers whom my dog charmed on the subway, and many other classifications of humans who don't define themselves by their professions. 

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I don't know when humans decided that meaningful singing belonged to an elite few, but it's a fucking lie.  Not everyone will become a famous, gifted, admired, or paid singer.  Singing still belongs to everygoddamnbody.  

Very few people are actually "tone deaf."  More often, someone we admired or trusted said something about our voices that we've held onto for years. 

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If you are curious about singing, that is more alive than what someone once said.  You can learn to sing, and it's worth it - each small step at a time.

Becoming a singer isn't something you finish.

 

A few lessons can make a huge difference. But lasting changes—and the real development of a voice and the musician who wields it —take regular work over time. In my experience, a few years of consistent lessons can be transformative.

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Yes. Technique is based on the anatomical structures of the human body.  Style is laid over solid technique, like an outfit on a body.   I'm interested in who you are and what style feels the most like YOURSELF when your voice is playing in its natural habitat. 

They truly do.  I can see and hear you more than well enough to help, and online lessons have their own advantages.

 

We can both show up from anywhere in the world. You can be in your own home.  You can record and re-watch lessons.  

 

For equipment, you need a computer with a microphone and speaker (headphones if you like), Zoom software (free), and the ability to turn on what is called "Original Sound for Musicians." You need an internet connection.  You can use a tablet or iPhone, but Zoom on iOS is not ideal, so a computer will be your best bet.

Singing is tender. Crying happens, pretty often.  I'll love you for it.

We can sit with feelings around singing for a while.  But I'm a voice teacher, not a therapist - and I'm here to get you and keep you singing.

We feel through it. And then we open our mouths again. 

Oh my God, NO. Not unless you want to, in which case I'll be your #1 fan. 

Teaching your voice is an honor. It is also my profession and my livelihood, and honoring these policies below allows me to keep doing this work with care for a long time.  

Please give me at least 24 hours' notice to cancel or reschedule a lesson.  Otherwise, the full lesson fee is due.

Most of my students reserve a weekly time.
 

When we begin working together, we'll choose a committed monthly rhythm - usually 3 or 4 lessons, and we stick to it.  If either of us needs to miss a particular day, we'll find another time that week. 

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Occasional (as-needed) lessons are also available at a different rate.

The students who make the biggest changes aren't the ones with mythic perfect discipline.

They're the ones who keep showing up to lessons and learn how to move slowly.

Please do not show up to an in-person lesson if you're getting sick. We can easily make the lesson happen online. My voice is my livelihood. Help me keep it healthy. 

Your voice is yours.  I am here to challenge and guide with patience and flexibility, especially helping you reach your practice goals, but I can't motivate you or do the learning for you.  

Your question isn't here?  I wanna hear it! 

You know what's more fun than thinking about singing, reading about singing, or talking about singing? 

SINGING
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