How To Find Work As A Professional Singer

Now that you have a band organized and havewide repertoire and style. Do not attempt to
rehearsed sufficiently or you are already veryshowcase slow ballads unless you are very good
proficient in accompanying yourself with a guitarand soulful or otherwise, you will bore your
or a piano and already have a wide repertoire ofpotential employers. Besides, slow songs are more
songs, you know now is the time to start findingdifficult to sing well and mistakes are easier to
work as a professional singer. All the hard work isspot.
done and now is the time for fun and even fame!If you are auditioning just for a singing job and do
Isn't this the glorious day you have been lookingnot have a band, then don't clutter your songs
forward to?with some amateurish accompaniment. Sing with a
Finding work as a singer is not as difficult as manykaraoke minus one accompaniment instead. That
people make out to be because there will alwayswill make you sound more like a proficient singer
be restaurants, clubs, pubs, private and publicinstead of a fumbling wannabe amateur.
functions looking for competent professionalYour first singing gig is probably one of the most
singers like you. You can either hire agents orimportant miles-stone of your singing career. Do
approach the venue of your interest directly afterlearn quickly. If you are singing in a club and no
finding out who is the person in charge forone is paying attention to your performance, then
conducting auditions, hiring bands and singers.you need to quickly know why. Perhaps you are
After talking to your potential employers, you cannot on stage and the audience cannot see you, or
send them your demo CDs prior to a live audition.you may be performing too softly or too loudly
If you are selected, they will call you and youruntil you sound irritating. There will be plenty of
band for a live audition. This is the crucial pointtweaking to do until you get your performance
where you either succeed in getting yourself hiredjust right.
or not.If you are a solo singer and are accompanying
If you are applying for a singing job at bars andyourself, make sure the guitar or piano
pubs, your potential employer will not beaccompaniment arrangements are not too
interested in listening to your original material. Youcomplex. Your voice must come through, not the
are not a superstar and you have yet to establishsound of the musical instrument. Your audience
an audience who will want to listen to your originalare there to listen to you singing and do not want
composition no matter how good they are.to listen to the clang clang bang bang of your
What they want will be what the venue'sguitar or piano. The musical instrument supports
audience wants to listen to. Remember this, thethe song, not the other way round.
club owners are in this for money and you willFor instance, listen to Dina Krall when she
have to earn them money to justify your feeaccompanies herself on the piano. When singing,
and job.she just plays the chords so that her voice and
For example, if you sing with a jazz band, thenlyrics come across with clarity and powerful
obviously you cannot send your jazz demo CDsemotions. It is during the instrumental part of the
to rock clubs. It is therefore imperative that yousong that her piano playing is more fanciful and
understand the nature of the venue beforemore crescendo applied.
sending your demo CDs.Finding work as a singer is easy, but the road to
Choose about 6-8 songs for your demo CDs forbeing a successful professional singer or to fame
your pre-audition. This is because your potentialand fortune is another matter altogether.
employers will want to know that you have a