"God has inspired Diana to create a brilliantly simple process in order to address a very complex thing. And while Vocal Science is the most difficult thing I've ever done, it is also the most disarmingly logical process I could've imagined undergoing to begin to restore the health and reliability of my voice. As someone who previously struggled for 20 years to regain the ethereal experience I remembered using my voice to be, and who painstakingly searched for help to do it, it was difficult at first to believe I could possibly have found the person who could help me...and yet, I have.
For those many years, while I was fortunate to have stumbled across a few (of many) teachers who empathized with my struggle and who offered compassion while telling me the *what* I needed to do, what was perpetually absent was sufficient expertise to guide me through the *HOW.* With each wasted session of speech-level singing or pointless scales, the disconnectedness I felt between my voice as I remembered it, and where I then found myself, only grew. And as my search continued, I learned that those so-called "teachers" were each, perhaps even unknowingly, yet insidiously, deepening that disconnect, and widening that gap to a spectacularly echoey chasm.
Diana is honest, demanding, gruffly hilarious, pointed, and will not allow herself to be satisfied contributing anything but everything that she has to the process. She doesn't waste time telling you how great you are. Instead, she helps you recognize how great you *can* be...if you'll step into the discomfort you'll no doubt face. You'll have to be willing to bare your skin, but she doesn't ask you to do anything she isn't herself willing to do. She doesn't just hold your hand. She grabs it and doesn't allow you to shake free of it until you've begun experiencing what she's going to tell you from the first moment, is possible. Sweaty palms and all. It is "tough love" at its epitome.
As a professional coach of more than two decades, I so appreciate and resonate with her candor, dedication, diligence, uncompromising persistence, and transparency. If you're not used to that...and it's been my experience that most people aren't...you may at first feel stunned and even...alarmed. But this is the best part of the whole process. That Diana pulls the most destructive habits from you, brings your awareness to them, then ultimately gives you the tools to get rid of them...for good. And from there (as she likes to say) “the best is yet to come”.
God bless you, Diana. I appreciate you."
- Daniel Johnson, Voice Repair Client/Singing Student of Nashville, Tennessee