Our Journey

Where It Started

I grew up in the Arabian Gulf. I have loved singing for as long as I can remember.

When I was in Year 6 in Yemen, a piano teacher pulled me out of choir to record a track in a studio.

That was the moment I knew my voice meant something.

Then I arrived in Australia at 13.

Singing was discouraged at home for cultural and religious reasons.

I had no support and no frame of reference for Western music.

I was repeatedly told that I was out of tune.

I started to believe I was tone-deaf.

I was not tone-deaf.

I was singing microtones, intervals that exist in Arabic music and have no place in the Western scale.

Nobody identified that.

They just heard wrong.

That experience shaped everything about how I coach now.

The voice you arrive with is not broken.

It might just be operating in a system that does not recognise what it is hearing.

Why I Teach Differently

When I started taking singing seriously, I sat in lessons that were not built for the way I learn.

Vague instructions. "Just feel it." Teachers who could sing beautifully but could not explain why something worked.

I knew what it was like to be told I was not getting it, when the real problem was how it was being taught.

So I went looking for the science.

I needed to understand what was actually happening inside the body when someone sings.

The anatomy. The acoustics. The neurology.

Once I understood the mechanics, everything changed, not just my own singing, but my entire view of what teaching voice should look like.

I had to learn everything twice.

Once to absorb the information, and again to translate teaching methods that were never designed for the way I process.

That double-processing turned out to be the most valuable thing I brought into this studio.

Now I teach the way I wish someone had taught me.

Clearly & precisely.

With full respect for how your brain processes information, whatever that looks like for you.

Every technique I use is evidence-based.

Every instruction has a reason behind it.

If I cannot explain the why, it does not belong in your lesson.

Credentials

Bachelor of Music (Psychology), Victoria University

VET Toolkit for Vocal Coaches, VocaLab

Experience

2.5 years as a vocal coach

15+ years as a performer and vocalist in Melbourne

Paid live performance

Studio recording since early teens

Training

Currently training in Estill Voice Training (EVT)

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