Must Breathe Correctly

All professional singers attest that to singing correctly, one must breathe correctly.

Breathing correctly means to learn the breathe technique and also to control our breathing, thus having the wind power in our body to give the optimum output when we sing.

When I observe how a baby breathe I notice her diaphragm goes up and down. Compared to how I breathe, my upper chest goes up towards my shoulder. Yucks, I am doing it all wrong.

My daughter's breathing is natural, the diaphragm working by sucking all the air in filing the whole lungs with air, therefore her all that power when she cries and yell for milk. My chesty breathing, pulling air in and filing only the upper lungs, is a half complete job and overall is tiring, trying to pull in the air and letting it out.

Breathing correctly is mandatory for a singer. With proper diaphragm breathing, its like loading our body with gunpowder and then exploding, gushing the air through our vocal cords, giving us a powerful voice to sing.