Renée's Blog

Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Leah Roseman's podcast, Conversations with Musicians. In this 90-minute podcast, we discussed my music education and early music life, being trans and disabled in the music industry, my pivot to the trans voice space, and so much more! There a...

Hello trans voice pals! I am taking a few weeks off from content creation for the holidays, so you won't see any blog posts or videos from me until January 9th.  Of course, I wouldn't leave you empty-handed though! Click the video above for some bloopers from the last year of tiktoks 🤪 See you...

One of the most powerful tools for creating a strong habit in your life is called Environment Design. This refers to designing your space to either include triggers that cue positive habits or remove triggers that cue bad habits. This can get fun when you start connecting light, music, times of d...

 Hello, trans voice friends! Today, I want to talk about the concept of dynamic range. Dynamic range is a little hard to describe, but it's related to the characteristic of inflection. It depends on how much pitch variability there is when we inflect during speech. This can be a gendered char...

Hello pals!! There are two more days to take advantage of my Black Friday super sale and get my courses at a whopping 50% off. Many people have taken advantage of this sale so far (hello, if you're new around here!!) but I wanted to make sure that nobody missed this opportunity. Today, I though...

 If you're working on modifying your voice to better align with your gender presentation, something you've probably come across is the concept of pitch and resonance. And I know these two concepts can be kind of hard to disentangle, so I thought I would give you some examples today. You can hea...

I know it's a little early but I couldn't wait any longer to tell you about my epic Black Friday sale! This year, for the first time ever, I'm offering 50% off my two full-length courses, Trans Vocal Exploration and Mindful Voice Feminization. I've never done a sale like this and, honestly, I'm...

Back by popular demand, registration for Learn to Teach Trans Voice Alteration in 5 Weeks (my comprehensive trans voice teacher training course) is now open! I'm doing things a little differently this time around, so if you were not able to take the training because you couldn't commit the time,...

🎶 Calling all voice teachers !🎶 I'm giving a free webinar this week on Degendering Vocal Anatomy and Trans-Specific Voice Concerns. If you want to know all about binding, hormone replacement therapy, puberty blockers and other things that impact trans voice, consider registering here: https://w...

A question I get asked a lot was how did you get into this field? My path towards this work was not at all a linear one so let me tell you how it went! I started learning to sing in my teen years and when I turned twenty, I started teaching others how to sing as well. I taught singing for te...