Customized vocal conditioning for singing professional voice users - case report

This study is about the development of customized vocal conditioning programs to a specific demand of three professional singers. We selected three professional singers that were undergoing voice therapy to participate in this study: a singer and actress of Brazilian musical theater, country music singer and a rock singer. All subjects underwent speech-language pathology and ENT assessment. They all presented complaints related to tiredness and fatigue after vocal used and/or vocal improvement. The customized vocal conditioning program was one of the stages involving vocal therapy and it was customized according to the singers demand, need and availability. The singer and actress of Brazilian musical theater joined easily to the customized vocal conditioning proposal, reporting a better physiological mobilization, which gave her improvements before starting the artistical technique she was used too. The country singer also joined easily to the customized vocal conditioning program, without any difficulty, and reported extreme improvement in his comfort and his performance when singing after undergoing the selected vocal exercises. The rock singer showed greater flexibility on his vocal tract, on the stability issue in singing, on the expansion of his vocal range, he also showed an articulatory accuracy improvement and reduction of the excessive global constriction after beginning the customized vocal conditioning program. The customized vocal conditioning program shows positive effects, especially for singers, because it works exactly over the demand that will be used by the singers, working on specific exercises and focusing on their needs.