Do singers normally not like their own voice?

This is a great question, and thanks for asking it.

Alot of people, singers or not, don't like their voice as it is heard like on the phone, or a message machine. There is a slight change in the voice when it is recorded or heard through a phone. So what you hear on play backs of recorded vocal tracks or the way a voice sounds on the phone is actually slightly different in pitch and tone than your actual voice is when your ears hear it naturally every time you speak or sing normally.

So don't be intimidated if you think your voice sounds weird when you hear it like that. And don't give up your dreams!!!!

I hope this helps.

Keep jammin!

Peace

I think I tried to answer this before. Either you've posted it again, or it was one of the answers that was "lost" because of computer glitch. I basically replied that sometimes because we can't hear ourselves as others hear us (because we are listening to our own voices as it echoes and bounces around our heads, chests, muscles, bones, cartilage, etc). When we listen to a recording, we sound "different" than the way we think we sound. We also know what we were trying to accomplish when we sang a particular song. For example even before I listened to a live recording of a recent solo I did for a choral concert, I knew that I did not quite support a high note as well as I should have. I didn't miss or crack on the note, but that note should have just rung out and there was less of a crescendo there that should have been. So I was actually listening for my mistake. Which no one in the audience really noticed apparently, from all the compliments I got. Even my choir director told me I sounded beautiful. Oddly enough, though I thought I've heard my voice in recordings enough to recognize it (because I record practice sessions sometimes to check myself), for a minute, I didn't recognize my voice at the start of the solo. The director wanted that particular section to be very rich and dark, so I "colored" my voice accordingly.

I'm still very critical of my own singing, but overall, through the years, I have come to really like the sound of my voice. When I was younger I hated it because it never sounded like anyone else I had ever heard. Now I'm glad of it. And I also figured out that I do sound somewhat like another singer--my late father! There's a certain timbre to both of our voices even though our ranges are probably more than an octave apart.

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