I’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, musician, vocalist and bandleader Emily Miller. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, She is the Creative Director for Boston Common Entertainment and Her debut album, "Stronger Every Day" was released in August 2020.

0:37 What are your earliest musical memories? 2:39 How young were you when you started formal lessons? 3:50 Were these classical piano lessons? 6:48 Describe your first voice lessons 8:58 What kind of music were you listening to growing up? 10:42 Were you always singing all the time? 11:39 What is your vocal range? 12:54 What does it mean when a singer is said to to have a multi-octave range? 14:23 Middle School Gospel choir experience 15:18 Did you do much sight singing? 18:50 How did you get introduced into jazz? 20:57 What sort of repertoire did you do? 23:57 How much can vocal training in a day can the human body take? 27:57 High school to Berklee College of Music 30:17 Berklee College of Music 34:52 Development at Berklee 38:27 The competitive nature of singers 43:38 Private instruction while doing choral training 44:24 What do you make of all these different singing methods out there? 47:34 How about your private instruction in Berklee? 48:56 What reforms would you suggest to make the department enrollment stricter? 49:30 What should you look out for in a good teacher? 52:10 Can adults learn to develop a nice singing voice? 53:32 New Album - Stronger Every Day 59:00 How do you feel, having completed your debut album? 59:57 Where can you listen to the album? 1:00:19 HOT SEAT - React to famous singer names 1:01:44 Top 3 Jazz Standards 1:02:16 Top 3 Male and Female Singers 1:03:46 What do you make of singers taking bebop melodies and adding words to them? 1:04:25 Top 3 Albums 1:04:54 What are the 3 hardest songs you’ve ever sung? 1:06:19 If you could collaborate with anyone in history, who would you work with? 1:07:51 What advice would you give to 20-year old Emily Miller? 1:08:51 Wrapping Up