The Sound of You: Recent Episodes
Davin Youngs
The Sound of You is a new podcast hosted by singer and voice coach, Davin Youngs. Each episode is a deep dive into the healing and transformational power of sound, singing and the human voice. In conversation, singers and professional voice users share their voice journey and reflect on its intersection with the trials, tribulations, joys, and changes in their lives.
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.
Coming up on this season of The Sound of You with Davin Youngs: Beth Kuhn,Tim McIlrath, Rhiannon and Andrew Kerr.
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.