How Self-Care Can Help You Become A Great Piano Vocalist

By: Sam de la Haye

I remember learning to sing and play like it was yesterday!

I remember locking myself in the piano rooms for hours upon hours.

Making songs up, exploring what all the keys did, singing my heart out! 

To be honest, that time in the piano rooms was my sanctuary. It was my self-care! As I was being heavily bullied at boarding school with nowhere to run and no one to talk to or understand how I felt.

But the music did….. And it allowed me to shed those tears that I could not show outside those four walls. 

Have you heard the song by Irene Cara, “Out here on my own”

The second verse:

Until the morning sun appears

Making light

Of all my fears,

I dry the tears

I've never shown,

Out here on my own.

I sang this song over and over and over again!

It just got how I felt! 

You see, learning to sing whilst playing the piano can be incredibly rewarding. But as any experienced musicia...