Stevie's voice doctor

[bombaysaffires]

Seems like we can blame the vocal coach on this guy--

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gal...oseph-sugerman

There are 3 slides with photos about him and his clients (slide 3 in the set shows the framed cover of TISL on his office wall)



Back in Hollywood’s Golden Era, when Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland sought a voice doctor, only Dr. Ed Kantor would do. During the late 1970s, Kantor added a protege to his practice named Dr. Joe Sugerman. It quickly became clear that Sugerman, a brilliant physician with an easy bedside manner who could coax even the most inconsolably hoarse diva off a ledge, was the right choice. Sugerman went on to inherit Kantor’s practice, and among his first wave of rock-star patients was Kiss co-frontman Paul Stanley.

Patient Care Worthy of Gold Records
“We immediately hit it off,” recalls Stanley, 62. It was Stanley who first gave Sugerman a framed gold Kiss record to hang in his office. Says Sugerman: “When other singers came in and saw it on the wall, they said, ‘Hey, what about me?’ ” Now his Beverly Hills medical suite could be confused with a record producer’s office, with albums from Michael Jackson, Stevie Nicks, The Rolling Stones and Madonna.

Doctor's Advice
Sugerman says the past few years have seen the biggest change in three decades of treating super-stars as concerts have become the industry’s main revenue generators. “People are on tour for a year at a time, singing six or seven nights a week,” he says. “And they just get into trouble.” Sugerman advises that patients find a vocal coach, skip the pizza before bedtime (the acid can wreak havoc) and hold off on aspirin (which can lead to hemorrhages).

[Macfanforever]

Wow.Thanks for sharing.I couldn't even imagine what these doctors charge their clients for an office visit.

I agree on the advice on not eating pizza before going to bed.The acid reflex will happen which I have to deal with at times.

[singertobe]

Thanks for the vocal advice!

[bombaysaffires]

I loved the part about avoiding aspirin……and that includes putting it in your nose Ms Nicks

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Wow.Thanks for sharing.I couldn't even imagine what these doctors charge their clients for an office visit.

I agree on the advice on not eating pizza before going to bed.The acid reflex will happen which I have to deal with at times.

i can attest to this.
i like pizza cold, so i usually had it as a "midnight" snack ... near bed.
it set off my already inflamed gallbladder (that i didn't know about)
and caused me reflux so bad i thought i was dying
would hate to have been a singer

stevie eating pizza ... i can't see it, tbh

[sorcerer999]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

stevie eating pizza ... i can't see it, tbh

Haha! I think she's more of a "Nathan's Hot Dog" gal!

[san-l-bar]

I tend to believe that he was wading through years of other vocal coaches lousy advice by the time Stevie got to him. I suppose there's only so much he could do with all the abuse that was already done. Interesting to me that Christine is 5 years older and her voice hasn't changed much at all. Blame it on Rhiannon in the 70's how her voice changed the first time, but who do you blame from 1983 thru now?

[sorcerer999]

Originally Posted by san-l-bar

I tend to believe that he was wading through years of other vocal coaches lousy advice by the time Stevie got to him.

Stevie never had a vocal coach before him. He's her first and only...

Originally Posted by san-l-bar

Blame it on Rhiannon in the 70's how her voice changed the first time, but who do you blame from 1983 thru now?

Cocaine and cigarettes!