Anyone Can Sing

As a long-time choir director, I've been saying for years that everyone can learn to sing. That is despite the fact that in my first choir, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Columbia, AL, there was a "bass" that never hit the right note. He threw his head back and "sang" at the top of his lungs and no amount of coaching seemed to help him. Alas, this article states that I am wrong. A certain percentage of the population really CAN'T sing. They basically fall into three categories: People who know they can't sing, people who think they can sing and dudes in emo bands ...