Becoming Sound with Davin Youngs

What are the top three technical desires people have for their voice? A better handle on their breath, access to more notes... and more overall control.

In this episode, Singer and Voice Coach, Davin Youngs breaks down for you what control really means with our voice and why we all want it. He also shares why control is a tricky word to navigate and why the experience of control doesn't resemble anything like we imagine.

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Also, if you're interested in joining Davin's group coaching program "Free Your Voice, Free Your Life" launching this spring, visit davinyoungsvoice.com

Singer and Voice Coach, Davin Youngs is back to share with you some of his best observations about what it takes to actually move into your freest voice and freest life. In this episode he shares observations about clients who come to him in the midst of crisis or on the precipice of crisis and how that might just be a necessary catalyst for real change. He also shares some behavior traits he has seen to show up most commonly in those who are able to make it through to the other side of their voice journey. Ultimately, he offers encouragement and support to you wherever you are on your voice path.

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In this episode, Singer and Voice Coach, Davin Youngs unpacks a quotation that has become very meaningful to him and the singers he works with on their voice journey. Using "To Know the Sound Is to Make the Sound" as he guide, he shares the functionality of making different types of sounds in our body and what it means to actually know certain sounds and not know others. Further he shares why we are prone toward some sound and afraid of others and whats at stake by keeping ourselves limited to just the sounds we know. Ultimately, he pulls apart the construct of personal identity as it relates to the voice and why being willing to make any sound might just be the key to personal freedom.

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Singer, voice coach and sound healing artist, Davin Youngs is back for season 2 of The Sound of You, his podcast on the magical mystery experience that is the voice! In this episode Davin shares a bit about how and why he is coming back to podcasting and how he learned to show up in this world more fully as a singer, and subsequently as a coach.

He also shares why calling yourself a singer is a powerful proclamation and why your voice may be your most essential tool on your healing journey. He specifically discusses the body's relationship to the voice, how we create stories that impact our sound, and what it means to know singing as a spiritual act of devotion.

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In this bonus episode to finish out season one, the Doctor is in and he is delivering the medicine of truth. Dr. Sims is a treasure to the voice community, not only for his wealth of knowledge regarding the technical aspects of the voice as a body based instrument, but also for his ability to communicate with and treat the whole person. Having worked with some of your favorite (and most famous) voices, Dr. Sims brings to this conversation a humility and compassion that will have you learning about and loving your voice just a little bit more!

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Few singers or teachers have done more to illuminate singing, and specifically improvisational singing as a tool in liberation, than Rhiannon. As a long time collaborator of Bobby McFerrin and a seasoned singer, performer and teacher, Rhiannon is a wealth of wisdom and wonder. In this beautiful conversation, she generously offers the story of her own path toward freedom with insights from the women’s movement, singing with Voicestra and sharing with singers around the globe the gift of improvisational singing.

Andrew Kerr counts getting hit by a truck to be one of the best things that ever happened to him. In this conversation, the singer-songwriter shares how that fateful day pointed him down a path toward not only transforming his life, but freeing his voice.

Tim McIlrath has been singing and screaming with the band Rise Against for more than 20 years and despite the band’s success, Tim’s vocal journey has been complicated. In episode three, Tim tells how he learned to sing and scream in the 90’s punk and hardcore scene, what it’s really like to tour for so many years and the process of disassembling his voice and instrument so that he could have increased ease and longevity.

Beth Kuhn had a dream of performing on Broadway, and when she had almost made it there, in her words, her voice “fell apart at the seams.” In this conversation, Beth generously shares her voice journey, from pursuing a career in musical theater to ending up living with her parents nursing her voice back to health to finally finding a freer, healthier and more authentic voice.

So, what's this podcast even about?

In Ep. 1, Davin explains the origin of The Sound of You and what it means to tell the story of one's voice. He speaks specifically to being a voice coach for 20 years and realizing the problems people suffered in their voice often mirrored other areas of their lives. He then tells the story of his voice and how it interweaves with his own coming out story.

The episode concludes with the season one trailer for The Sound of You.