Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So you bruise your vocal cords by ... singing?
How does one take care of their vocal cords? Warming up with scales? Drinking throat coat? Other things?
One thing you might not know is that Christine from Phantom is one of the only if not only Broadway parts that has a prerecorded track.
The actresses cast as Christine all can and must be able to hit that super high note at the end of the Phantom song, but for shows, that note is pre recorded for all of the Christine including understudies, and played by the soundboard. It is the actual actress' voice, just not live. The reason is that the specific note is so high, that to hit it 7 times a week would do serious damage to the vocal cords very quickly. So to allow the actresses playing Christine to play that part for more than a few weeks, that prerecorded note is blended into her singing each show by the sound techs.
So when you have an artist like Mariah Carey hitting that super high note, know that she is damaging her vocal cords.
That is why those prodigy kids mimicking that kind of singing should not be allowed to do that if they want to be an actual singer. It is the vocal equivalent of those young competition dancers who overstretch to achieve extensions beyond the hips natural rotation. That destroys and actual reforms the hip socket in a way that causes irreparable harm that will not be obvious until years down the road...same thing just with the voice.
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