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"The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue."

Margaret Whiting, American Musician

People, Actor, Talk

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"The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue."

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