Singing like Dennis Lloyd

If you're a fan of Dennis Lloyd's music, you probably already know how unique his voice is, and how it adds so much depth and emotion to his songs. Singing like Dennis Lloyd will involve a focus on voice control, emotion, and being in the moment.

To achieve this, it is essential to practice your singing every day. Make sure to warm up your vocal cords with the exercises. The Farinelli Breathing video on Singing Carrots shows how to warm up breath and diaphragm, which should be the first exercise you do daily.

Once you're warmed up, start singing one of Dennis Lloyd's songs. His music falls into a pop/jazz vein, so listen carefully to his voice, especially the way he phrases his words. Avoiding constrictions in your throat will give your voice the same smoothness and richness as Lloyd's. A great resource on Singing Carrots to help with this is the blog post "Avoiding Constrictions."

If you want to develop Lloyd's signature vocal style, you'll need to focus on his vocal registers and vocal break mentioned in the blog post "Voice Registers & Vocal Break." You should explore your chest, middle and head voices to achieve this. Once you are familiar with your voice type, you can try to mix it up and extend your range by working on the "Pitch Training."

Getting the right posture is critical to enable breath support and good vocal tone. In the video "Good Singing Posture," you will find tips for maintaining posture, which will also help improve breathing skills.

To really convey the emotion of Dennis Lloyd's songs, you will need to sing with intuition, skills, emotion, and thinking habits, as discussed in the blog post "Singing with Intuition, Skills, Emotion and Thinking."

While focusing on technique, you should never lose sight of how to have fun with singing. Singing Carrots offers a virtually unlimited pool of musical resources. You can search for songs by vocal range, difficulty and genre preference with the "search song," or explore vocal ranges of over 5000 famous singers as Lloyd himself on "Artist Vocal Ranges." Also, the Heavy Modal, Twang, and Belting techniques, presented in the blog post "Contemporary Vocal Techniques," are great tools for adding a unique flavor to your singing.

Overall, the trick to singing like Dennis Lloyd is to find your own voice and unique interpretation of his musical style. Listen to his music and emulate it, but add your own personality to it. Remember that singing is also about having fun, so enjoy the journey.