Sue originally started Singing From The Center as a book and audio CD program. Although the program received great results, it's much easier to understand the tutorials with a visual explanation.And so Singing From The Center Mark II was born. The shoots were created in June 2008 in San Francisco and San Diego (She'd like to give out a big thanks to all the people involved in this project. You can find links to all of them here.)
The original concept was to sell the video on DVD, but we found it more effective to make it an online members website. Ah! We thought, it's only going to take a few months, and 18 months later the site was opened. In that time it grew from simple online tutorials, to encompass an ever-growing articles section and members forum, thus creating an online community.
Sue's a British singer now living in San Francisco, where she gigs, teaches and runs a recording studio.
Prior to moving to the US in '99, among other gigs, she worked as a singer with the legendary rock band The Moody Blues, touring the US and Europe extensively.
Prior to that, she ran the jazz-fusion band "Sky Island" with fellow musician Terry Disley. The band toured the UK, were recorded for TV and radio, and played regularly at such London clubs as Ronnie Scott's and The Jazz Cafe.
She also attended the Guildhall School Of Music and worked as a session singer on many albums, jingles and cover tracks for radio and TV.
She's also done many, many, many, many, many, many gigs. And not all of them out of choice!
Enjoy the site!
"I stumbled across your tutorials while looking for some drum lessons. I had to check out what you posted because I have been intrigued with singing as well. I was immediately impressed with your presentation in the Introduction and watched more. You definitely are a gifted teacher. Not all musicians can teach. After that I went to your SFTC website and learned more about what you had to offer and your name and had to Google and found some of your music. I really like "The Dancer"! Bravo."
"God bless all your pursuits. Keep doing what you are doing. You have much to offer."
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"just doing the vocal exercises has helped tremendously, people are starting to say things like you sing really good and all that."
Richard "dok" Washington member since July 2010
"Your ways of explaining things & the images have helped me enormously with inner awareness & bringing everything together."
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"I loved it. It was so helpful. What an amazing opportunity to be able to get high level voice lessons right at home."
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