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Roger Love
with Donna Frazier
.
LITTLE, BROWN PANY
Boston New York London
Copyright © 1999 by Roger Love
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any
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First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Love, Roger.
Set your voice free / by Roger Love.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-316-44179-!
i. Singing Methods Self-Instruction.
2. Voice. I. Title.
1999
783'.04 — dczi 99-10081
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Q-FG
Book design by All Points Covered
Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated to
SYLVIA, MIYOKO, AND MADISON,
who love me enough to forgive
when I sometimes hit
a wrong note.
Foreword
THE VERY last thing I thought I'd ever need was a singing coach. After all, I've never
been able to carry a tune. But several years ago, a string of events led me to Roger
Love, and I will be forever grateful for the changes he's made in my voice.
Let me go back to the beginning. In December of 1996 I got a bad cold — several weeks
of postnasal drip topped off with Christmastime bronchitis and laryngitis. It seemed to
clear up, and then, one night, right after doing a great three-hour show, I got up to
leave the studio and found that I could barely croak out a "See you tomorrow" to my
engineer. I was stunned! What had happened to my voice? I'm a radio talk show host
and a virtual chatter machine except when I'm sleeping, so for me this was no casual
loss. I have to have my voice.
My husband took me to the Speech Pathology Clinic at UCLA, where they used a special
device to watch my vocal cords as they worked. As worried as I was, it