Specialties
For nearly four decades, Raz Kennedy has professionally trained and coached singers of all ages, levels, and musical styles. As a vocal instructor, his mission is to place the desires and wishes of each singer he assists first. Raz achieves the best results in enabling the singer to attain his or her goals by using teaching methods and pedagogical tools that work in harmony with how the voice functions most naturally, not against it.
Raz Kennedy's teaching methods are based in scientific analysis of vocal anatomy, as well as in a rich understanding of music history and ethnomusicology. With this knowledge as the foundation of his teaching, Raz is most effective in helping singers to achieve expressive and dynamic, free and easy, healthy, and safe approaches to singing.
With over 40 years of extensive formal training, integrated with his personal and professional singing experience, Raz Kennedy has come to believe that anyone can sing. If given the proper tools, a healthy person can learn to sing well without any vocal hinderance or discrepancy whatsoever. It is Raz's mission to be an advocate for and assist anyone who desires to experience and manifest the expressive liberating power of the art of singing.
History
Established in 1977.
Raz Kennedy places sincere emphasis on developing the next generation of talent, making his methods for vocal success available to all singers. In addition to his thriving private practice, Raz is an active faculty member at Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco, one of the Bay Area's most prestigious music study institutes. Throughout his career, Raz has served as a guest instructor at SF Jazz, Jazz Camp West, Stanford Jazz, GRAMMY in the Schools, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, West Coast Songwriters, Ruth Asawa San Francisco School for the Arts, and various music education programs in Latin America and Europe. On July 19th of 2016, The City of Berkeley formally proclaimed the date to be "Raz Kennedy Day", in recognition of his decades of artistic excellence, community service, and social activism. Above all, Raz Kennedy's mission is to advocate for and assist anyone who desires to experience the liberating power that can be attained through singing as artistic expressi
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In the realms of vocal performance and singing instruction, Raz Kennedy has created a legacy for over 40 years that rivals the music industry's finest. Acknowledged as "the premiere vocal coach in the Bay Area" by Narada Michael Walden (multi-platinum Grammy and Emmy winning producer and musician), Raz Kennedy is a veteran music educator, vocalist, and producer with numerous Gold and Platinum records to his credit.
Raz's depth of knowledge and expertise has positioned him to instruct a culturally diverse roster of musical luminaries, from from members of Metallica, to Adam Duritz of Counting Crows, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, Hilary Duff, Davey Havok of AFI, members of Los Tigres Del Norte, the late Clarence Clemons from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, and many more.