Singing - The Singer's Edge
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The Singer's Edge on mySLSworld is the only show of its kind featuring music industry insiders giving you the best kept secrets to becoming a more focused, professional and successful singer. For everyone interested in learning singing, it's the only program of its kind giving you powerful insight into the music business.

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Brent Bodrug: Artist Development for B-Group Music
Posted: August 2008

Brent Bodrug is head of the production company The B-Group Music, and works full-time as a producer-engineer and songwriter developing artists from Canada and the US.

A video podcast in the MP4 format.

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All 8 Master Speech Level Singing Instructors: A rare interview
Posted: May 2008

Speech Level Singing has grown into the world's largest and most widely recognized vocal development organization. While at the annual 2008 teachers conference in Hollywood, California 8 Master Vocal...

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Martin Landquist: Artist, Producer and Songwriter
Posted: April 2008

Martin Landquist is an artist, producer, and songwriter. Under the name Naid, he releases his own music as well as as producing artists such as A-Ha for labels like Warner, SonyBMG, Universal, and independents. Martin has written music for award winning commercials, webcampaigns and TV events.

On today's show, Martin talks to us about his new album, Varanasi , his eclectic encounter with rhythm, and how he collaborates with songwriters and singers.

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Seth Riggs Part 2: Vocal Instructor to the Stars
Posted: March 2008

With a roster of students that include 6 leads at once on Broadway, 5 principles at once at the Metropolitan Opera, 4 winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions, and over 125 Grammy Award Winners, Seth Riggs is considered by many to be the best and most successful voice teacher in the world. He is certainly the busiest. Recording artists, opera singers, musical theater performers, actors, directors, and producers all rely on Seth Riggs for help. Seth has dedicated his life to the study of voice. A singer since childhood, Seth's lifelong dedication to understanding how the voice really works eventually resulted in the unique and innovative approach to voice known today as Speech Level Singing. Despite Seth's virtuosic leap singing up to the double high C in the middle of this interview, he has asked that I assure the listeners that he was still experiencing vocal exhaustion following his recent hospitalization for pneumonia and from coughing and weezing. He hopes that listeners of the show will be forgiving, taking into consideration the unusually poor quality of his voice. He feels fortunate to have been able to make even transitions through the bridges during this interview.

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2008 Namm Conference: Highlights and Interviews; Episode 17
Posted: February 2008

While at the 2008 annual Namm conference, Allison Austin and I had the pleasure of chatting with some exciting musicians including Bobby Kimball of Toto, Jason Scheff of Chicago.

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Robert "RAab" Stevenson: Singer, Songwriter, and Producer; Episode 15
Posted: January 2008

On this weeks show:"Jennifer Hudson would have just been pushed to the side and washed away, but she kept pursuing her career."Singer, songwriter, producer, vocal coach and artist developer.

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Kyle Martin: Music Pastor and Piano Man for "Movin Out"; Episode 14
Posted: December 2007

On this program, we chat with Kyle Martin, a music pastor from California and the piano man from Billy Joel's smash musical Movin out. Kyle outperformed over 30,000 people to be one of 10 Piano Men ever considered for the role. We discuss Songwriting, how he discovered he was a tenor, and how that's impacted his career. He also talks about his role as a Music Pastor to a 2000 strong denomination, his background with spiritual music, and the challenges and joys of working in the ministry.

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Fritz Helder: Attention Grabbing Frontman; Episode 13
Posted: August 2008

On this weeks show:"It's not as simple as having a great song or being a nice person... those things are important, but it's so much more now; it's understanding the world because we're able to; we're able to logon... it's a weird kinda evolution that's happening... alot of people grasp onto it but alot of people are in denial... You can use it to your advantage if that's what you want to do."

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Nicole Atkins: Columbia Records Recording Artist; Episode 12
Posted: November 2007

Accompanied by melancholy lyrics, and bringing to mind a blend of Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn and Jenny Lewis, Nicole Atkins grew up in Neptune, NJ. After a few years playing in North Carolina with an alternative country band, she returned to the tri-state area playing solo gigs in New York City.

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Daniel Bedingfield: Chart Smashing Hit Singer/Songwriter; Episode 11
Posted: November 2007

Singer/Songwriter Daniel Bedingfield was born in New Zealand-born, but grew up in southeast London. Mostly influenced by contemporary RnB artists, his sisters Natasha and Nicola teamed up with him to assemble their first band, called the DNA Algorhythm.

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Boko Suzuki: Hit Broadway Musical Director; Episode 10
Posted: November 2007

Boko is currently the Music Director for the National Tour of the hit musical Wicked. He spent three years music directing Rent on Broadway after having music directed both national tours, as well s supervising the Austrailian production.

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Rory Kaplan: Keyboardist To The Megastars; Episode 9
Posted: October 2007

Born in Los Angeles, California, Rory Steven Kaplan was influenced by the arts from the start - his father was a still life painter and his mother an accomplished pianist. At the young and impressionable age of nine, Rory first heard the record that forever changed and shaped the direction of his life: Meet the Beatles. Not long after, his parents bought him a guitar and his musical career was launched.

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Dr. Nassari: Voice Specialist to the Stars; Episode 6
Posted: October 2007

Dr. Shawn Nasseri is an Ear Nose and Throat surgeon who works almost exclusively with the voice. He has treated several thousand voices over the last dozen years, including the last seven in his thriving Beverly Hills practice. This has included a wide range of patients from a number of top platinum selling recording artists to local and international musical theatre actors to professional voices all over the world. Dr. Nasseri has dedicated nearly his entire practice exclusively to voice work. Today, he gives us a fascinating look at the complex instrument we know as the voice box. He describes briefly how to ensure we use it efficiently, and he also tells why Speech Level Singing is so incredibly effective.

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Signed Warner Brothers Artists and Sister Songwriting Team: Episode 5 - Meg a...
Posted: September 2007

Meg and Dia had been writing songs together for 6 years before they were signed to their first label. After their self-released debut album, Our Home Is Gone, they toured extensively in it's support. In the fall of 2005 they signed to Doghouse Records, and in August of 2006, Something Real was released. The band gained popularity after self-promotion via MySpace and they were selected as the official MySpace band on the Warped Tour 2006. They were also included in the '100 Bands You Need To Know' in the April 2006 edition of Alternative Press magazine. In February of 2007, Meg & Dia signed a deal with Warner Brothers records.

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One Of The Industry's Youngest AnR Creative Executives: Episode 4 - Scott Austin
Posted: September 2007

SCOTT AUSTIN is the CEO of Authentik Music Group, a Los Angeles-based artist development company. He has held creative executive positions at Warner Bros Records, Madonna's Maverick Recording Company and Capitol Records. Scott has repeatedly been 'first on the scene' with many of today's most successful acts. At 29, he is one of the youngest executives in the music industry and has been credited with the early discoveries of The All-American Rejects, Michelle Branch, and Tyler Hilton. He was also responsible for bringing John Mark into collaborations with the industries finest songwriters, and bringing him to the attention of Maverick.