.png)
The Problem
You can sing. You just don't know it yet.
Richard specialises in helping people who think they cannot sing to discover their long-lost voices.
Leading a non-audition choir for many years, Richard comes into contact almost daily with people who have little or no confidence in their singing voice — people who have grown up thinking that they have terrible voices, that they are tone-deaf, that they have nothing to offer the world of singing.
Here's the thing. That's all nonsense. If you were told as a child that you can't sing, that's a reflection on how uneducated the person was who told you that. Singing, like all other skills, is not something you're born with the ability to do. It's a learnt behaviour. Some people are just quicker at picking it up than others.
The important thing to know is that it's still possible to learn. Unless you have congenital amusia — a condition which means that you struggle to differentiate between high notes and low notes — you are capable of learning to sing. You just might have to deal with being a bit rubbish at it for a while, while you learn the basics.
From Groaner to Singer
Real transformation, real results
Richard is an expert at coaching people from the point of not being able to pitch any notes correctly to being able to sing very accurately. Some of the people he has worked with have gone from being "groaners" to solid, valuable members of his choir.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Richard started a pilot project to work with a group of people who felt they couldn't sing. The culmination of this project was that in December 2023, Richard published his first book, "Think You Can't Sing? Think Again!" — available on Amazon with many five-star reviews.
Richard also brings the concepts in the book into a workshop which he delivers at events, festivals, and conferences around the country.