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Working With Your Voice reveals essential methods to successfully launch a professional singing career. As the product of Babbitt's many years of experience as a professional singer, teacher, and coach, her "Zen" approach provides a deep understanding of how the voice, body, lifestyle, and attitude can all work together to achieve success. Topics include auditioning and how to score gigs; practical advice for the studio, session, and touring singer; press kits; promotion through social networks; business tips for professional singers; and much more.

Geared for singers who seek to jumpstart or further their professional careers, Working With Your Voice features a reference guide to the music industry with a helpful glossary of commonly-used terms. Interviews with professional jazz singer Annie Sellick, in-demand session singer Russell Terrell, pianist, singer/songwriter, and voice teacher Kira Small, and record producer and former VP of Disney Records, Fred Mollin offer valuable career insight and real-world application. For a quick glance, valuable tips on signing, gigs, marketing, and the professional singer's lifestyle are called out in the margins of the book.

Babbitt has many years of experience as a singer, and has performed both live and via recording with top artists such as Leon Russell, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Courtney Love, and more. Her voice has also graced hundreds of television and radio jingles.

"Anything you want to know about singing is in this book. Jaime Babbitt shares her vast knowledge of every aspect of how to be a pro singer."
—Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, award-winning and world renowned songwriting team

"Jaime Babbitt is one of the best singers I've ever heard. She knows the artistic side of her profession, and in this book she shares everything the up-and-coming session singer or recording artist would ever need to know about getting started and about staying in the game."
—Jimmy Webb, Grammy® award-winning, singer-songwriter/composer, and Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame