i don't have cool theme music, but i definitely accomplished something this evening. i sang in front of over a hundred people without choking or doing anything horribly bad. i chalk this up to a success.
i have been a singer all my life. i take weekly voice lessons and i'm a member of my school's "good" choir and show choir. but there's one accomplishment i had not reached. solo performance. i'm trying to tackle that this year. see, the thing is, i get this almost paralyzing stage fright to the point where i can't even breathe. i tried out for a solo in choir last week and this happened. needless to say, i didn't get the solo. so when i perform i have to breathe, relax and tell myself it doesn't matter it's just high school. that definitely helps. that's what i did tonight.
i sang "wishing you were somehow here again" from phantom of the opera. i got several compliments afterwords but then when i got home, i listened to it. i am a victim of that terrible phenomenon where it sounds absolutely wonderful from inside my head when i'm singing it, but then when i hear it played back it sounds like the worst thing ever. i hate that. i guess i'll have to work at it more until i like the way it sounds from both angles. but that could take some time. oh well, what are voice teachers for?
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