I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
And I've had vocal training on and off for years.
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.