HOUSTON — A Houston couple has been turning singers into stars for decades, including some big names who have gone on to win Grammys. Collen and Tom McKinney started in the world of musical theater.

Maybe you know him best as Pinky, or Yakko, or Raphael, or by one of his hundreds of other characters, but we know him best as our friend and host of Talkin’ Toons. But soon everyone will know the ...

Voice Lessons is a collection of personal essays about a shy introvert's struggle to find her voice—as a singer, a writer, a mother, and a human being. Using traditional narrative and hybrid forms, ...

Cash built his mythic self to fit his actual voice, behaving as if it had arrived from somewhere else, as if the voice (like a flame) had traveled a great distance to get here. This was correct. As ...

I started taking voice lessons from an instructor in her 30s who works with younger singers. I’m 72 and have COPD and asthma, and I am recovering from bronchitis. I can’t always reach the notes she ...