We were lucky to catch up with Sandi Wis recently and have shared our conversation below.

Sandi, appreciate you joining us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

It took me a long time to sing from my diaphragm. I mean, when someone says, “Breathe from your diaphragm,” what does that even mean?” The thing I realized is that the body needs to be able to let go of tension before you can even conceive of how low you are capable of breathing. I’ve found that digging into the basics is the most important thing—the dull, repetitive, boring stuff. If you’re serious about singing, you’ll enjoy it. :)

Sandi, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I believe everyone is an artist. Crossing fine arts too makes the work better, and more profound. I teach my vocal students to sing from the perspective of a whole artist.

I was always interested in art from a young age. I considered it to be the career I would have. I did not have the perspective at the time to go through the pain of rejection. I let that pain and certain events I was experiencing get in the way of creating art. That’s how I got into lyrical singing, to find a “faster” way to express myself. Little did I know singing would also be a long journey before any real singing actually happened. That’s how I got to painting again—and writing again.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

There is a lot of envy out in the world when you’re someone who wants to do something artistic or sing. I say share all the secrets to what makes good art so no one feels left out and we put an end to jealousy. I believe art is the answer. Anyone can sing—if they desire it to be so. They must want to get better and they can. Again, handling those emotional ups and downs of any artistic journey is the true transformation.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

When COVID hit, I was a full-time teaching and gigging musician. I had to pivot to the publishing industry to be able to work from home. I was also a bit burnt out from working so much in music. It was actually a nice change. This pivot luckily was supported by the work I had done up to that point to work from home anyway, a dream I’d had since I graduated college and found out such a thing existed. Now I take students in my vocal studio and online, with some performances at art galleries and online here and there. I absolutely love what I do, in exactly the way I do it.

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