Hello all!

If you are wondering if anyone can learn to sing, let me show you that it is true that anyone can!

My name is Jonathan Kondor, and singing is one of my strongest passions. These days, I sing all the time. At home, at the store, out with friends, to my girlfriend, in public, and pretty much anywhere you can think of. It hasn’t always been like this, though, and in fact this is a fairly new development… Allow me to tell you a quick tale about my voice through the years, and how I first decided to learn how to sing.

When I was 8, I started a small juggling stage show with my brother Caleb. At that time, my voice was incredibly weak, and it made stage work really difficult for me. As the show became more popular and I grew older, around 12, I got some semi-professional help to improve the power of my voice. Yeah, it cracked like crazy, but that never mattered to me as it made some really funny moments on stage. The need was to be heard, and that I was. In high school, I joined drama, and at some point I determined to be in a musical. This was the painful part… While I had a quarter-decent voice within my speaking range, my higher singing voice was the equivalent of a dying mutant cow. My theater teacher loved me and was willing to work with my limited range, but I ended up leaving the play for personal reasons. I stopped pursuing vocals for quite some time until…

It was the next summer that I found my inspiration. Pentatonix. I watched their YouTube videos, listened to their mp3’s, and ended up buying a pair of high quality headphones to truly enjoy the strength of their voices. I wanted their voices. I needed, down in my soul, to have every aspect of each of their voices. The grit, the purity, the clean powerful highs, the rumbling lows, and the tight rhythm… I wanted it all. I started getting aggravated that I couldn’t sing along with any of their songs, and I finally determined to DO something about it. I looked up tutorial after tutorial on YouTube, joined the school choir, paid for some courses, and practiced and practiced and practiced. I’ve gone through all the best material out there, and I’ve even come up with a bunch of my own unique exercises to stretch my range into places its never been before.

In my various learnings, I found that one’s voice is a finely tuned instrument that you must learn to play. My learning curve exploded because of my raw determination, and I found cool little vocal improvements almost every day. It wasn’t long before people started noticing the success I was getting, and my confidence sky rocketed. It felt great to know that I no longer sounded like a vomiting mountain lion, and the best part was when people actually started requesting me to sing!