We mean well, but voice teachers are often sending students off on a quixotic quest to find “their authentic voice.”
Theater singers of all kinds have spent a lot of time on this search for what their “sound” is.
When you’re a theater singer, your job is to embody multiple different ego identities. You don’t want to be a singular brand because that limits the myriad expressions you’re capable of.
Biologically, empirically, and scientifically, you already showed up on the planet with a singular voice that has never been and will never be repeated. Your particular combination of lungs, larynx, and vocal tract is your own.
