Sing with Ola

I will guide you and help reach your singing goals. I will deliver personalised feedback and training adjusted to your individual needs, experience,  musical taste and aims.

I am a flexible, friendly, open minded teacher with 9 years experience coaching singers - with a broad understanding of music and styles.

I teach from my home studio in Crouch End N8

I offer lessons to:
• improve your technique, build your confidence, get more control over your voice
• sing in a healthy way with no strain
• expand your vocal range and power, get easy access to all high and low notes, reduce breaks and weak areas
• record personalised warm-ups that will work best for the difficulties you have at that moment
• help you with writing your own songs (structures, lyrics, melodies, keys, tempos)
• support you in songwriting process
• develop your style and sound
• express emotions and ideas through music
• work on singing backing voice and harmonies
• improve pitching & musical awareness
• read music and understand music theory to the extend you need it
• learn about different styles, pop, rock, jazz, hip hop, classical, ethno etc and explore your influences
• in my studio you will have a chance to sing with a microphone or record demos of your songs or covers with my guidance
• prepare for auditions, performances, recordings or entry exams
• prepare for music theory exams ( grades, uni)
• basics of piano playing and accompaniment - playing all chords, transposition
• I will help you set realistic goals, plan your next steps, share my knowledge about music industry,  plan your single or album release 

• get rid of stage anxiety, build your confidence, create a good mindset

My education: I am an experienced singer - songwriter and singing teacher with both pop & classical training. I have studied at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London (Masters in pop vocals) and before that The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Krakow/ Poland. I am qualified by London College of Music & Certified Instructor by The Institute of Vocal Advancement, my teaching method is a hybrid of some of the best modern approaches ( SLS based) :)

My musical experience: I am a recording artist and songwriter (soul, pop, rap). You can find me as "Ola Igboaka". I have released two solo albums in Polish and I will be now releasing a series of singles in English. I have also broad experience as a session singer, band member and arranger. My experience covers backing singing for pop and hip-hop artists, opera choir, harmony groups, jazz and folk band and many others.