The Healing Power

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David Bowie's former singer Emm Gryner reveals essential secrets of proper singing and exposes the incredible connection between finding your best voice and living a fearless, joyful life in a book filled with everything from vocal health tips, and stories from the tour bus, to action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence.

Vocal health tips, stories from the tour bus, and action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence from an award-winning musician and life coach Performing with David Bowie, surviving the murky depths of the music business, enduring a painful divorce, and making the first music video in outer space, award-winning recording artist Emm Gryner has navigated through lifes highs and lows using a secret compass: singing. Her voice, and her desire to express herself in music, has been a constant: from the early days of playing in bands while growing up in a small town, to playing arena rock shows and stadiums. Across these years and on many travels, shes discovered the human voice to be an unlikely guide, with the power to elevate and move people closer to authentic living. This book is about that discovery: part study in the art of singing, part guide to finding ones voice, and part memoir. This book is a must-have for anyone who knows they should be singing.David Bowies former singer Emm Gryner reveals essential secrets of proper singing and exposes the incredible connection between finding your best voice and living a fearless, joyful life.

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"The path to musical virtuosity and celebrity can be a rocky road to the church of 'ME.' Emm Gryner could easily have lost herself down that track. She is hugely talented, creative, charismatic, and driven. She is everything that a 'star' should be. But she is also a natural teacher, sharer, giver. Giving and sharing what she has learned and experienced has proven far more rewarding to Emm than stardom. That's why this book is important. It is an honest, funny, candid, and enriching life lesson about what really matters: the joy that lies in finding and using your hidden talents to enhance your life. Emm Gryner is an inspiration: read the book and be inspired." -- Neville Farmer, author of XTC: Song Story
"To say I can relate to Emm Gryner's book would be a very, very BIG understatement. As she and her musical, creative, determined heart meandered across the globe, the lessons she gleaned from singing and performing and making art seeped deeply into her day-to-day life and into her mission to become a better, stronger, more resilient human. The Healing Power of Singing is chock-full of vulnerability and coming face to face with who you are and who you want to be. Wonderful storytelling -- charming and, at times, heartbreaking. Living an artist's life is not for the faint of heart ... kind of like being a parent. I highly recommend this book, whether you're a musician or a plumber!" -- Jann Arden

Author Bio

Emm Gryner is a Canadian musician and vocal coach. Gryner toured in David Bowie's band, singing and playing keyboards, and appears on the recordings Bowie at the Beeb and Glastonbury 2000. Gryner helped make the first music video in outer space and is a proud mom of two kids. She lives in St. Marys, Ontario.