Your True Voice - The sound you have never heard | Mark Fox | TEDxRWTHAachen - Video

Most people believe the sound they hear everyday coming out of their mouth is "their voice“. Probably you do too. It’s the sound that constantly accompanies you through your life, be it speaking, singing, communicating or expressing - its the sound you associate with you. And because you’ve heard this sound more or less all of your adult life you simply take it for granted that what you’re hearing is “your voice”. In my experience though the sound you hear is almost never "your voice“.

So what is it that you’ve been hearing all this time? So what is your real or what I like to call your true voice? Mark Fox is an opera tenor, singing teacher, composer, and the founder of “True Voice®” an opening process for the voice. A California native, he studied singing at Central Washington University, graduating Magna cum Laude in Vocal Performance. He continued his studies privately in San Francisco with John DeMerchant, eventually participating in the Merola Opera Program under the auspices of the San Francisco Opera in 1981. There he continued his training under Jess Thomas, Kurt Herbert Adler, Wesley Balk and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. Parallel to his first performances in opera, he began offering singing lessons to seasoned colleagues and aspiring singers. Over time, it became apparent that his passion as a teacher lay in exploring how the voice can be utilized as a means for personal transformation and empowerment. He had an evolving realization that a person’s sense of personal identity is expressed and revealed in their vocal sound. After a decade of engagements on the opera and concert stage in America and Europe, he decided to devote his time to developing his own process-orientated approach to the voice. After moving to Europe permanently in 1991 he became the singing teacher and vocal coach for the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, Germany. Since 1996 he has been internationally under way offering seminars, vocal retreats, TrueVoice®teacher trainings and individual sessions for people interested in experiencing a more authentic vocal expression and way of being. Along with his own concertizing and recording projects, he has supported thousands of people in over fifteen countries to find their true voice and come in contact with the essence of a more authentic self. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx