We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Corinne Bach. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Corinne below.

Corinne, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I’ll never forget; I was 17 and working as a grocery store cashier in a tiny town. I knew I was going nowhere fast in the little town my mom moved us to.

A few years prior, I’d moved to Florida from Brooklyn and soon after, my mother remarried. I was so homesick and I missed my dad, my friends, and the big city hustle of New York.

Then my dad died in NY and in a twist of fate, I wasn’t able to go to his funeral.

I was directionless. I just couldn’t focus so my grades plummeted.

Then I joined the show choir, took acting classes, and everything changed. My grades shot up without even trying. I was beginning to feel happy again. I didn’t know it at the time, but singing was healing me.

I found my purpose and knew I needed to see the world through the lens of a singer.

At 17, I remember standing at the grocery store register just longing for NY again, but this time going up to take auditions and sing on Broadway. I fantasized over and over, all.the.time.

I didn’t know how to do it, though. So I followed the traditional path: took voice lessons, got scholarships, went to college, got principal roles in the operas and sang in the highest level chamber choir.

I was also hiding from my teachers that I was singing in a band 3 or 4 nights a week…

Thank goodness for singing in that band because in college, they just don’t teach you things you really need to know. Like, how to book your own gigs, how to do auditions, how to write a bio, a resume or even how to take headshots. With this band, I sang in an exclusive resort where I met all kinds of amazing people, and I asked a lot of questions.

Being curious and open helped me get what I needed to get back to New York and get the bigger gigs that I really wanted!

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers?

I’m Corinne Bach, singer/entertainer, recording artist, and master voice instructor and coach.

I’ve toured nationally with Broadway shows and my headlining show, taking my show internationally on luxury cruise ships, as well. My show is all about storytelling with a bit of rock & roll, pop, Broadway, crossover, and even some light opera in the mix.

At a high point of my singing career I became fascinated (obsessed) with the structure and systems of the voice. Thinking I was one of those singers with “cords of steel”, ironically I got a vocal hemorrhage while on stage and had to be on vocal rest for 5 weeks.

This made me even more obsessed with the voice and its functioning systems, and I really wanted to prevent that from happening with my students.

After a lot of research, I decided to get a post secondary degree in disorders of the voice — I got my undergrad and master of music degrees in voice performance.

I am the founder of Bach Entertainment and its subsidiaries, The Bach School, legacy voice.passion.io, and the Legacy Voice app on Apple iOS and Android.

I specialize in what I call Heart-Centered Singing, with a strong focus on healthy singing to prevent vocal injury. I developed this style of teaching because I want my singers to sing for as long as possible, using their voices to heal themselves and others.

I still perform often but I LOVE teaching, giving a new flock of Songbirds a much easier path to professional singing than I had. The Legacy Voice app gives me a chance to reach more aspiring singers worldwide, with Spotlight Vocal Exercises for the anatomically female and male vocal ranges. I do live lessons, yoga for singers, and Songbird Meditations all focused on Heart-Centered Singing.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

We all have a pandemic story. My career was considered non-essential and I found myself unemployed for 10 months straight. But that’s not the story I want to tell today because I had amazing people on my side who helped me get where I am today.

The story I want to tell is extremely personal about my dad, and about not giving up.

I mentioned earlier that he passed away when I was a teenager and I couldn’t go to his funeral. I actually never knew where he was buried, but I always felt he was there protecting me and guiding me, so I never felt the urge to find his grave.

There have been so many times in my life when I nearly gave up singing or even something else, but I always felt that my dad was somehow there for me to make sure I got back on track again.

My dad was a singer/songwriter and music is in our namesake; in our bloodline. I’m grateful for and proud of my last name and I’ve always been guided by my famed musical ancestry.

In 2008 I was getting married and I kept thinking I wanted to do something special to honor my dad, so I wrapped his photo around my bouquet. This prompted me to look his information up to find details of his death. I kept coming up with nothing, for years.

One summer I decided to go to NYC to work with two cabaret writers and arrangers. In the studio, we started talking about what in my life would make good content.

I wanted to do a tribute show, but that’s not what these writers suggested. We explored some subject areas and then they led me to stories about my family history and my father.

I broke down crying about not knowing where he was buried and one said, “There’s your story. You NEED to find his grave”.

I didn’t write that show (at this time), but this made me realize that my the sole purpose of being in NYC was to find where he was buried.

With a very helpful friend with me, also a musician, I went to 5 different municipal buildings from Brooklyn to Manhattan, with no luck. Toward the end of the day, we went to a public records building. There was a line wrapped around the building, but we got in it. I was ready to give up at this point, so this was IT; if I didn’t find it here, I didn’t think I’d ever find it.

About a half hour into waiting, I noticed that we were supposed to have a number, so I asked my friend to hold my spot while I got one. I immediately got stopped by a guard telling me if I wanted to number, I’d have to get back in line!

So I complied, and began to make my way to the back when he stopped me again. Maybe because I didn’t protest, he decided to kindly give me a number from his pocket. This saved a lot of headache and time, and I was SO GRATEFUL!

We finally made it into the room where they called the numbers and I filled out some paperwork. I was holding the number firmly under my dad’s name when my friend peeked over and said, “Do you think you’re in tune?” I didn’t understand until he pointed at the number, which was A-440.

If you know, you know. If you don’t know, let me nerd out a little:

“A” is the note the oboe plays to tune the orchestra before the concert begins. 440 is the frequency number, in Hertz (Hz) of that exact pitch. And Bach, J.S. Bach to be exact, is one of the most famous composers of all time.

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A-440

I knew I was going to find his grave because that was a sure sign my dad led me right there! I took a photo of it and I hope I can share it with you.

A few minutes later my number was called and I was given every bit of information I needed. The very next day, I drove out to where he was buried and the story only builds from there…

Right when I was about to give up finding my dad’s grave, I was told to keep going. Music has always guided me to my truth, and why I can never give it up.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My most important mission is for singers to find their voice, and to never lose their voice. I mean this in literal and figurative terms. The voice that sings stories and the voice that sings those stories straight from their heart – To be a Heart-Centered Singer.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.corinnebach.com
• Instagram: @corinne.bach
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/successfulsingers
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CorinneBach
• Other: www.legacyvoice.passion.io Legacy Voice in the iOS App Store or Google Play for Android