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Jennifer Hamady

About

Jennifer Hamady is a voice coach and nationally board-certified counselor specializing in technical and emotional issues that interfere with self-expression. With offices in Washington DC and New York City, Jennifer works in private practice with musicians and others to discover, develop, and confidently release their personal, professional, and creative potential. Her clients include Grammy, American Music, and Country Music award-winners, performers in Emmy and Tony winning productions, and corporate clients across an array of industries, including IBM, The American Bar Association, Merck and Wells Fargo.

Jennifer’s insights have been captured in her first book: The Art of Singing: Discovering and Developing Your True Voice, heralded by BackStage and Variety as a breakthrough in the psychology of personal and musical performance. Based upon her experiences as a coach and singer (she spent the early part of her career performing and touring with artists and companies including Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Patti LaBelle, Wyclef Jean, Def Leppard, Lee Ann Womack and Cirque du Soleil), the book offers all people a path toward effortless and joyful self-expression. Jennifer's latest book, The Art of Singing Onstage and in the Studio explores the psychology, relationships, and technology in performing and recording– the first book on the market to do so.

Jennifer conducted her undergraduate and graduate work in Classical Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, and Psychology, respectively, and leads workshops and master classes around the world on creative and personal expression. For more information, please visit: FindingYourVoice.com

Books by Jennifer Hamady
Recent Posts
You Are Enough
Personal Perspective: Allowing for space between ourselves and our passions grants us the freedom and perspective necessary for creativity. And the realization that we are and have always been enough.
On Personal Peace and Vocal Freedom
By not resisting and making anxiety and tension wrong, we summon the courage to meet them face to face and to hear the wisdom they have been trying to share with us.
Welcoming Anxiety

Resistance not only makes our performance anxiety worse; it blocks our creativity, pleasure, and connection with others.

Resistance not only makes our performance anxiety worse; it blocks our creativity, pleasure, and connection with others.

Creative Monogamy

Protect your creative process from outsiders, including the one in your head.

Protect your creative process from outsiders, including the one in your head.

The Joys of Being Wrong and Surpassed

As a teacher, it is rewarding when students go beyond what we have imagined they could accomplish. But when they also surpass our own abilities, we know that we have done our job.

As a teacher, it is rewarding when students go beyond what we have imagined they could accomplish. But when they also surpass our own abilities, we know that we have done our job.

Dealing With an Injury

Learning to navigate injuries with grace, patience, and tenderness toward ourselves is an important lesson. As well as critical to our healing.

Learning to navigate injuries with grace, patience, and tenderness toward ourselves is an important lesson. As well as critical to our healing.

You Are Your Own Best Teacher

You are your best teacher. Others may have incredible amounts of knowledge to offer you — but it doesn’t become wisdom until you make it your own.

You are your best teacher. Others may have incredible amounts of knowledge to offer you — but it doesn’t become wisdom until you make it your own.

Farewell, High Heels, and High Notes

We singers don’t need to push and strain our voices any more than women need to walk on our tippy toes to be sexy.

We singers don’t need to push and strain our voices any more than women need to walk on our tippy toes to be sexy.