Seth Riggs
Update: November 3, 2023
It's been a while since I found anything on this great legend voice instructor, Seth Riggs. Today, I was checking old links on this site and found a video uploaded 2 years ago! Here you go!
Meet Seth Riggs - legendary singing teacher to the stars
Michael Jackson and Seth Riggs - Vocal Training Session (1994)
Below is the original Blog on this page.
I first came across this book was when I was taking my first singing lesson. I went to a local conservatory that was just opened. I signed up for singing lessons. I met with my instructor weekly for an hour. She later told me that she can come to my home and give me voice lessons there. I like the idea so I said yes. She came to my home for a while and started to tell me she has problem with her car and asked if I can go to her home and study there. I told here I didn't mind and went to her home. There, she showed me a book and said it is a great book. The techniques that she was teaching me was from that book. But her problem was, she told me, is that she lost her CD. She suggested if I buy the same book with CDs, she can borrow my CD and teach me with it. I was so excited and bought the book with CDs. She asked if she can borrow the CD and give them back to me at our next lessons. Sure, I said. Meantime, she gave me a copy from herself and told me to practice my exercises from that CD copy. I said sure and never heard back from her again. Needless to say, I lost my original CDs that came with the book. I listen to the copy she gave me and that is all I have. I don't like to make copy of CDs because I felt that is not right. However, I've never able to get a hold of her again since. I was very sad and disappointed at such character.
Thank goodness for YouTube. Someone has the whole 2 CDs uploaded. And there, I listen and study from the same thing that is on YouTube now.
The exercises from Mr. Seth Riggs is very, very good. Yes! There is even a recording of Michael Jackson studying from Seth.
Besides the experience I learned from my first singing instructor, I learned singing better from Seth Riggs book and his techniques. I highly recommend it.
This is the book, Singing For The Stars, by Seth Riggs.