Don't know how to sing in "my" voice

[Littlepiggiesinblankets]

I can sing as in, I can hold a tune. But I basically copy the original artist very closely. So I sing completely differently depending on the original artist. Pitch, intonation, everything. Sometimes if I have my headphones really loud, I think I can sing in my own voice, as that's what DH says.

I see so much about unmasking and I feel like I have masked so hard my whole life in some areas that I don't even who I am: so how can I unmask? And I guess the singing thing exempflies my issue.

I mainly sing in my car, so it's not a big deal really. Just thought someone here might be able to make me feel less alone!

I'm a singer and singing teacher. The best students I have are those that mimic well. If you think of a choir, each singer listens and blends their voice to the voices of those around them. Some people, despite being good singers, aren't able to do this and stand out like a sore thumb in a choir.

I'm a classically trained singer but can sing in contemporary and musical theatre styles now after lots of work listening to and copying contemporary singers (trying to undo my training in a way).

Have a listen to Christina Bianco. She's a vocal impersonator. She's just done a run of Little Voice in the West End. Her mimicry is spot on.

Maybe we'll see you on the next series of BGT 😉

I do the same. I don't even know what my own voice is. Tony Atwood has a YouTube video about autistic women and girls saying how well autistic females do this. Copying the artist.

I'm glad to hear there are other people out there feeling this! It's another one of the things about people would think was "weird" about me.

I do indeed enjoy singing most in a choir and I used to do a mean impression of cartoon voices when I was little too :)

I've been thinking about this a bit more. I mimic people in real life - accent, vocabulary, rate of speech delivery, some mannerisms. Sometimes I'm very aware that I'm doing it

I'm very good at singing in foreign languages as I find it easy to reproduce the different sounds, although can't actually learn another language no matter how hard I try (despite being bilingual which is supposed to help with learning other languages).

I’ve a good voice and am an excellent mimic. Also good impressionist. I think it’s very common in people on the spectrum.

Just enjoy your voice! 😊

I mimic too when talking. I am actually linguist by profession, but I struggle to remember a language I don't know much of - I sort of have to plough through loads of learning before I can remember any of it. Like until I can make sense of it as a whole, it remains a mystery. And reading is way easier than the rest as it's like cracking a code.

Languages were definitely a special interest when I was younger. I suspect that's because I struggled to communicate so badly that I thought learning languages might help me figure it out. Sadly, it turns out that I have just different ways of masking depending on what language I'm speaking ...