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Claire Delaney - Vocal Coach

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20/03/2026

It was SO good to be back doing what I love 🤍

16/03/2026

As a vocal coach, I help singers build a resilient, reliable instrument. Lately, one pressure has been impossible to ignore: the push to mirror rapid weight loss popularised in celebrity culture.

Your body isn’t just a “look.” It’s the literal housing of your voice. Rapid changes through extreme dieting can influence energy availability. Chronic low energy availability (LEA) reduces stamina, muscular endurance, and recovery, which in turn affects breath support, vocal endurance, and consistency.

Many performers feel they have to meet these pressures to stay employable. If that’s you, know this is a space of support, not judgment. A body lacking sufficient energy simply cannot sustain optimal vocal performance.

From a teaching perspective, the “backfire” is real: reduced core strength can leave the voice feeling unanchored, and LEA can bring earlier fatigue and less reliable phonation. Digestive changes may also make the vocal folds more sensitive over time.

Because the systems your voice relies on are sensitive to energy availability, using GLP‑1 medications for legitimate medical reasons is not something to be ashamed of, and it does not automatically harm your voice. What matters is your overall energy balance and how your body feels while performing.

Your skill, artistry, and presence onstage are what define your work.

Your talent is your business, and that talent requires fuel. Aesthetic trends are not a benchmark for health or professional viability.

If pressures around the body or energy ever feel overwhelming, it’s okay to reach out. UK performers can access confidential, performer-focused support through organisations like BAPAM, Mind, and

Protect your instrument. You are enough, and your sound is worth the energy it takes to create it. 🤍

04/03/2026

I have had quite a few conversations about this recently and it's been so interesting.

I think performers have found it difficult since the day our jobs changed literally overnight.

I took some time off recently to wander around Bath, to enjoy good food, listen to music purely for the love of it, to read poetry, take morning walks to watch the sun come up and I've felt my passion and creativity start to return.

Remember, as a performer, you create from when you are inspired and lit up...not staring at a phone with a light in your eyes, on a plastic tripod, trying to get the best angle, take, and sound levels...with no director and a crappy backing track.

Cut yourself some slack and get out there into the world to absorb the things you love. As a performer you're basically a sponge for these things. So reignite that flow-state!

02/03/2026

Coaching from home this week. A gratifying mix of genres, with auditions back in circulation for my clients 🤍

18/02/2026

A bit of time off was just what the doctor ordered. Spent a few days at our favourite and took time to just slow down and catch up on the things that bring me joy. Highly recommend.

01/02/2026

So excited to announce that I have a new monthly membership that has just launched TODAY!

Come and get the VIP treatment in a space designed to give you private access to a monthly drop of resources, technical drills, and professionally recorded exercises designed to support steady, sustainable vocal development over time.

The aim of this membership is not to overwhelm you with constant novelty, but to give you reliable tools you can return to, layer, and refine as your voice and circumstances change.

This will be a "grow as we go" space and I look forward to sharing this with you!

Head to www.ko-fi.com/delaneycoaching to sign up!

08/01/2026

⚠️Coaches and singers: please stop bearing down, squeezing, or pulling up the pelvic floor. ⚠️

Right. With that dealt with, here’s why.

If you trained any other muscle group by constantly forcing downward and a feeling of expulsion, you wouldn’t call it “support”. You’d call it “something is wrong and I should probably stop immediately”.

The pelvic floor has become very fashionable in singing circles, which is usually where oversimplification starts and anatomy gets pulled out of context. Here’s where things go skwiff in singing pedagogy.

Some approaches ask singers to push down to “stabilise” or "support" sound. If you keep repeating that, you're increasing the risk of weakness in the pelvic floor, bladder or bowel issues, constipation, pelvic pain, and so forth. It sounds pretty grim, right? These issues are well-documented in pelvic health research and none of these outcomes are what we want to aim for. Nobody wants to be peeing their pants. Our nappy days are done, guys.

Downward pressure *does* happen in the body, but in very specific contexts...singing is not on that list. If your support cue sounds like something you’d hear in a bathroom or a maternity ward, it’s the wrong tool for the job.

So what actually works?

The pelvic floor coordinates automatically with breath. It adapts to airflow and intensity without being consciously shoved downwards. When this system is interfered with, the body compensates elsewhere and, let's face it, we don't need more reasons to worry about unhelpful tension...or the potential problem of having an accident on stage...just sayin'.

So, in a nutshell. Learn about it, yes. Work the area through specific movement and stretches to free up tension and then leave it the f*ck alone.

06/01/2026

You may be glad to know that you can kiss goodbye to the thought of “just relax” when it comes to voice work. (Who can relax these days, anyway?! Unless you're sprawled out on a beach in Bali right now)

If the direction of "relax" worked, you'd sound your best immediately after a nap.

So, why doesn't it help? Singing uses muscle. Muscle needs tone. If everything goes slack, nothing responds on time and the body compensates by shoving harder somewhere else. Usually the neck. Or the jaw. Or both, for luck.

The aim is less of the wrong kind of tension. The right muscles stay active and the freeloaders stop interfering. When that balance is there, the voice releases without being forced. But how do we work with the 'right" kind of tension?

First up - a reality check: the average human head weighs about 11lbs...and that's before you've shoved your face full of cheese and mince pies over Christmas (guilty 🙋‍♀️) That weight is held up all day by the muscles in the neck and upper back. If you're already gripping through the sides of the neck (sternocleidomastoids, I’m looking at you), telling them to “engage more” is like tightening a knot to make it easier to undo. What you need first is to feel real support and release, often with the head resting, before rebuilding a cleaner, more specific pattern.

All of us will offload excess tension in different ways. As an example, some of us need movement and others need stillness and support on the floor. It’s just bodies doing body things - there are no awards for who does what and when.

Healthy voicing, in an absolute basic nutshell, is about the balance of muscle vs air. Good coaching works out where you are and adjusts from there and certainly doesn't keep shouting "RELAX" or "LET GO" at you through a megaphone.

So if “just relax” hasn’t helped your voice, now you know why!

30/12/2025

Christmas with your best friend, you say? Go on then 🎄❄️🥰

I'm officially made of mince pies, cheese, and prosecco now. What a truly stunning break we're having. X

24/11/2025

Christ... that's beyond eerie. Today I had a conversation on a podcast with about trauma and the voice and I just popped on Facebook to have a look at my memories and found that it's 10 years today that I went for my first voice therapy session to try and figure out what was going on.

Little did I know that that "emotional tension" would become the knowledge that I had CPTSD and a decade long battle would begin.

The universe is wild.

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