Singing as Medicine: How Liz Caplan Healed Through Music
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How did Liz Caplan discover the healing power of singing?
At a very early age, Liz Kaplan found her own medicine.
Excuse me while I get my tissues, because that got me too.
Yeah, come on, right? You just gave me the damn goose bumps. Stop it.
I had asthma. Singing helped change the way I breathed. I could almost get myself out of it from my own techniques.
That is proof that the healing properties of music are happening.
Have an asthma attack, sit at the piano and start singing, no more asthma attack.
And there's so many people out there struggling right now. They don't know what their medicine is. They think it's chasing boys, chasing women, drinking alcohol, doing drugs.
Prior to every single vocal lesson, I do an incredibly detailed breathing series. They would come up from this big breathing series and go like this, wow, why use drugs? Cause the high you get from deep breathing is real.
Damn. And no hangover.
None.
What's up everybody. We're back. I have Liz Kaplan today, the vocal coach for the stars. She founded Liz Kaplan voice studios up in New York. And she has worked with some amazing people that you see on the screen a whole lot. right? Hugh Jackman, some people from Pitch Perfect and some other big names, but her story didn't start there. And that's really where I want to dive in today. See, she took small steps to get where she's at. She provided a service. She provided exceptional service. And then one person told one person and another and another. And then now here we are, this amazing vocal coach of the stars. Like I said, Liz Kaplan, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here.
I'm so happy that you're here too, because one thing that people don't know about me, and I know this isn't all what you do. I know you've worked with some of them, but my wife and I are obsessed with Pitch Perfect.
I know anybody hears Ben Platt and they're like, what?
Yeah. And he was actually like, to me, the big star, right? Because he was the underdog throughout the whole film.
What role does intentional breathing play in reducing anxiety?
And then at the end, he came on and it was like magic, wasn't it?
Totally. And that's basically Ben in a nutshell.
Yeah.
That is awesome. You know, I really love having conversations with accomplished individuals like you because there's always a story involved, right? I want you to walk the audience through how you actually started because if they're coming into it and look you up, look at your website, they see all this amazing stuff, all this press, you know, amazing stuff. amazing testimonials from like Stephen Colbert that, I mean, that, that testimonial you, people see that though. Like, I don't know how I can relate to this person because they're so big and they're so, they're so great, but that's not where it started for you. Can you walk the audience through how this, this massive momentum and this massive business started for you?
It's going to start so teeny weenie. I remember being six years old and being asked to sing God Bless America at the lip of a stage in some school auditorium. And I sang, and it was probably just a piano playing behind me. And I felt, I don't think I understood patriotism at the time at six years old, but I certainly felt that my voice... singing in general, but certainly singing that song. Cause it's very broad. And I was like, Hmm. And the audience applauded. And I was like, Oh, that feels good too. Um, but mostly I felt my own instrument as a healing mechanism for myself and how sound at six years old made people respond.
Interesting. Interesting. So I want to stop here and I want to dive into this because you said two things to me that are very important. One, that your instrument, your voice was healing for you. That's big. So I want you to touch on that, but then I want you to touch on the reaction from the audience because those are two different things. Those are two different winds and they're both very impactful.
I agree. Interestingly, the response from the audience was not for me, at least to my recollection, six years old. It wasn't so much based in ego as it was, it felt good to me, but it mostly felt good to me because I elicited a response from a large crowd.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did Liz Caplan discover the healing power of singing?
0:00–2:25
2
What role does intentional breathing play in reducing anxiety?
2:25–8:17
3
How did Liz Caplan build her successful vocal coaching career?
8:17–17:28
4
What are the transformative effects of music as medicine?
17:28–34:34
5
How can deep breathing techniques enhance creativity?
34:34–44:31
6
What strategies does Liz use to help clients release negative energy?
44:31–1:05:21
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