#Diary of a musician #Factors that affect the quality of a singer’s voice.

The vocal chords are fragile but sensitive parts of your voice that needs special attention, if not you might lose the strength of your voice which includes the dexterity, pitch, loudness and the uniqueness of your voice.
In this article I will be discussing factor that affect your voice.

• Stress

Stress one factor that affect the quality of your voice. When you body is over stressed with all work (especially sleepless night) and no rest, it affects the voice of the singer because at this point the whole body is demanding for a rejuvenation and therefore shuts down or minimizes the effect of its parts. Therefore a singer should always make out time to rest the body entirely.
In laws of physics, there is what is called tensile stress and strain. When a singer overuses his voice ( singing or talking), he/she needs to rest the voice by avoiding singing and minimizing talking a couple of weeks, this is to enable the voice to heal itself because at the point the voice is stressed, the vocal chords sustain injuries an therefore needs rest to heal.

• Nutrition

The food we eat at a particular period of time affect the quality of our voice. Sometimes we get journals where it is said we should not eat oiled foods, cereals, nuts and cheese cold water inclusive because it affects our voices, but think about it the human body needs fats and oils for our diet to be balanced; completely abstaining from such foods might not be so good to the body inasmuch as too much of everything is bad, too less of everything is also not good enough. I suggest we eat balanced diet but abstain from the above mentioned foods one week to your performance or even 4 hours to your performance depending on how your body metabolizes these food substances or react to them.
This article will be continued in my next episode of #Thediaryofamusician.