ASHEVILLE SINGING LESSONS FOR EVERY BODY AND SOUL
Find your authentic voice with True Voice lessons, where our love for nurturing your creativity meets your passion for singing, songwriting, playing an instrument, public performance, or just freeing your voice to speak your truth! Since 2012, True Voice has been guiding aspiring vocalists of all ages and skill levels. Whether you're a professional musician looking to refine your voice and stage presence, an aspiring musician and vocalist in the making or a beginner wanting to sing for fun, True Voice offers a supportive environment to help you achieve your goals. Specializing in everything from singing in the shower to professional performance, vocal health and performance anxiety, harmonies and audition preparation, or singing while playing an instrument so you can perform better at open mics or professional gigs, True Voice helps you discover, nurture and soar to the heights with your true, authentic voice.
With student participation from around the globe (Online and In-Person), we're helping people find their True Voice! We are primarily based in East Asheville, NC but offer virtual lessons globally. Online/Hybrid participants are encouraged (but not required) to attend our performance classes and/or our Full Band Shows if possible.
NOTE TO ALL SINGERS:
Your TRUE voice is your own personal signature that is beautiful to begin with. If we take that voice and use all the tools available to us to command it, the possibilities are endless!
Singing is good for your body, mind and soul on so many different levels that scientists are still discovering the many benefits in our daily lives as well as the long-reaching effects on our immune systems, emotional balance, stress reduction, intellectual support and our social interactions and self-confidence.
So whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, 10 years old or 102, looking toward a professional career (in speaking, musical theatre, singer songwriter, studio artist, rock star, etc.) or just want to reduce stress, conquer performance anxiety or sing better in the shower, you will reap tremendous benefits from this vocal training program. If you are interested in taking singing lessons with a professional vocal coach, contact me today to set up a diagnostic session for yourself or purchase a new singing adventure for a loved one!
Come see us if you are a singer, musician, speaker, or student of all things that are good for your body and soul and would like to:
Extend Range - Increase Stamina and Flexibility - Beautify Tone - Prepare for a Musical Theatre Audition or Enter a Voice Contest - Participate in our Sing Club Community - Perform with a Full Band - Fine tune your Singer/Songwriter performance - Eliminate Strain - Control Breathing - Improvise - Experience Vocal Freedom - Sing with Artistic Expression - Join our Sing Club Community - Discover Vocal Toning - Conquer Performance Anxiety - Reduce Stress and Anxiety -Regulate your Nervous System - Take online lessons or virtual or both - Release and Be Present with your voice!
Meet Your Singing Instructors!
Virginia Drake is a vocal coach, professional singer~songwriter, musician, performance coach, and the founder of True Voice Lessons in Asheville, NC. After years of formal study in musical theater and voice, she went on to perform as a jazz vocalist, indie folk singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist across multiple genres. Her teaching blends practical vocal technique with mind-body awareness, confidence-building, and the opportunity to perform in her student Sing Club workshops and local music venues! Virginia brings warmth, experience, and a deep love of singing into every lesson, helping students find a voice that feels strong, expressive, and authentically their own.
Virginia Drake
Graciela Serena is a professional singer-songwriter, vocal mentor, expression coach, and performer whose work blends music, embodied practice, and emotional truth. As an artist, she creates bluesy pop-rock music with raw, soulful vocals and lyrics rooted in vulnerability, empowerment, and self-expression. In her coaching, Graciela helps students reconnect with the voice beneath fear, conditioning, and self-consciousness. Her lessons support singers and speakers who want to build confidence, express themselves more freely, and feel more at home in their voice.
Graciela Serena
Who We Work Best With
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Young singers can build healthy habits, musical confidence, and a stronger understanding of their voices in age-appropriate sessions. Lessons may include favorite songs, vocal exercises, performance preparation, creativity, and guidance for practicing without strain. AND some songwriting guidance if that is a focus.
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Online voice lessons can support adults who are beginning, returning to music, pursuing professional goals, or simply looking for a meaningful creative practice. Lessons are adapted to your experience, interests, schedule, and inspiration for wanting to sing.
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Couples and families can use singing lessons to build confidence, learn harmony, prepare meaningful songs, or just to create a shared musical practice. Sessions can be adapted for different ages, experience levels, and reasons for wanting to sing together.
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You do not need previous training, music-reading skills, a large vocal range, or confidence performing in front of others. Beginners receive clear, encouraging guidance that helps them understand the basics while making room for curiosity and gradual growth. And the opportunity to sing on stage if that is a desire.
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Groups and bands can work on blend, harmony, arrangement, communication, performance, and the vocal demands of shared music-making. Coaching can be tailored to a specific song, upcoming performance, rehearsal challenge, or broader group goal.
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Singers, musicians, actors, teachers, speakers, and other professional voice users can receive targeted support for demanding schedules and specific performance needs. Lessons may focus on stamina, consistency, recovery, preparation, expression, healthy voice practices, somatic breath and awareness or sustainable vocal use.
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Prepare songs and audition material with attention to vocal technique, storytelling, character, phrasing, and performance choices. Coaching can support both virtual and in-person auditions, rehearsals, callbacks, and role preparation. Our musical theatre coach can help you with it all!
Our Singing & Performance Programs
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Work with an instructor in a supportive Asheville studio environment. In-person lessons offer focused vocal coaching, room to explore sound, somatic awareness, and personalized guidance for technique, performance, breath support, creativity, and confidence. Explore our Sing Club performance and/or creative expression workshops to take your voice a step forward in freedom to do whatever you are drawn to!
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Our online and hybrid voice lessons offer flexible support for students who want consistent vocal coaching, performance guidance, and creative development without needing to be in the Asheville studio every week.
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There is nothing like the feeling of the vibrations of harmonic blend. Build confidence in holding your harmonic part while listening and responding to other voices. Harmony lessons can support couples, families, small groups, full bands, and individual singers who want to better understand intervals, harmonic improvisation and spontaneous blend.
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Develop a freer, more grounded and more expressive speaking voice. Our supportive approach to sharing your voice in any medium can give you the tools you need for confidence in auditions, presentations, the theatre, monologues, storytelling, public speaking, or everyday communication.
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Prepare to share your voice with greater focus and freedom. Performance coaching can address stage presence, interpretation, microphone use, movement, audience connection, rehearsal habits, and the transition from practicing a song to communicating it. Our Sing Club workshops blend practical vocal technique with mind-body awareness, confidence-building, and the opportunity to perform in the student Sing Club workshops and local music venues! Or we’ll guide you through recording your own songs with confidence!
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Learn practical ways to work with nervousness before auditions, performances, presentations, or other high-pressure situations. Sessions may combine preparation strategies, breath and body (somatic) awareness, reframing, and gradual exposure to public performances to help performance anxiety feel more manageable. Explore our Sing Club performance and/or creative expression workshops to take your voice a step forward in freedom to do whatever you are drawn to!
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Explore the relationship between your voice, body, emotions, and nervous system through gentle, voice-centered practices. Gaining awareness of the somatic connection with voice may be especially supportive for people who feel blocked, disconnected, tense, or self-conscious when singing or speaking.