A very big warm welcome to episode one of 'One Boy, Two Voices'

I've been very lucky. When I sang in my younger boy, high voice, it really did create some amazing opportunities for me.

In episode one, I take it right back to the beginning and we chat about how it all began and highlight how I really wasn't even thinking about my voice changing then. I'm joined by my mum, Alison, who keeps me right on the order of things and explains what it was like from a grown - up's perspective, Professor Martin Ashley, a renowned voice change expert and author of many books on the subject and Matthew Todd, professional tenor and music educator, himself a former boy treble and survivor of his 'breaking' voice as he's still singing but he remembers it vividly.

We also talk about how I was signed by global record label Decca (UMG) when I was just 11, dropped by them when I was 12 and how we kept recording and releasing music for the next few years with no label support at all.

That's a whole lot of experience in a very short time for a young boy singer (and his mum and dad) and at the end of last year I realised just what a good position that put me in to try and help other young boys to keep singing when their voices change too.

I'm 15 now, it's happened and I'm very fortunate to still be singing. I hope episode one sparks your interest for the rest of the story in the next 5 episodes too. It's a fun listen, I promise! there's really no science at all and if you have any connection to young boys who experience this please share with them too.

Cormac Thompson - Homepage

A Borrowed Gift: CORMAC'S STORY - ft. him singing Cinema Paradiso (Se) (youtube.com)

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Vocal Stages

| Martin Ashley (martin-ashley.com)

Dead Composers and Living Boys: how high should boys sing in a

digital age? – Simple Book Publishing (pressbooks.pub)

Matthew Todd - Scottish Tenor (matthew-todd.co.uk)