GottaSing Vocal Studios

Shalee has been singing in front of audiences and in choirs since the age of 5. While growing up, she had a crystalline voice with great pitch but encountered a road block when she began auditioning for shows and performance groups as an adult. She found that she lacked the vocal skills to move beyond the audition and, if she was lucky, the callback. She didn't have vibrato, nor a strong voice and lacked sufficient breath control to sing through full phrases. Her confidence sank to new lows with each attempt to audition and perform. Ultimately, Shalee realized that she had to get training to gain the skills that would give her a competitive edge. After raising 4 children, she returned to college switching her original major, Physical Education, to Vocal Performance. While there, she was fortunate to train with an amazing voice teacher. Within a year of returning to college, Shalee was cast in her first musical! That experience gave her the confidence to continue her voice training and building her performance skills. In time, Shalee was cast in many more local, regional and professionals shows. She became a university professor teaching private voice lessons and performance/audition masterclasses. Shalee had always felt that she was a "jack of all trades, master of none"...Not any more! She loves passing on the skills she learned and developed as a student and as a teacher. She is thrilled to see the "light bulb" turn on when her students experience vocal discoveries and gain confidence in their skills. Shalee specializes in the female voice.

In high school, Dave was playing viola in the orchestra pit for Fiddler on the Roof. At the first rehearsal, Dave's attention kept drifting to the action on stage. He realized he too wanted to be up on the stage, not in the orchestra pit. Dave couldn't sing but wanted to be a singer and perform in his high school shows. He left playing in the pit, and auditioned for the next show. He was cast in the chorus, but soon after was asked not to sing out loud because he sang off pitch. It was a painful yet honest moment that prompted him to find a voice teacher. Dave eventually became a music major obsessed with learning to sing. He landed professional jobs performing as a singing waiter, theme park singer/dancer, singing backup at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, and ultimately, singing in and directing opera. He is now a voice professor at a major university sharing his love of music and teaching students music theory, vocal pedagogy and private voice lessons. Dave specializes in the male voice which includes the prebuscent male voice.

I love seeing the switch turn on when students realize that the adjustments in technique actually produce a desired sound, quality, or technical skill.