Biography

CVC was originally established by Rachael Kane and Tina Kopa in 2006 when they discovered they had very similar ideas about the voice, performance and what makes an engaging, confident singer. Together they combined their professional experience to develop methods to help singers become more empowered and create engaging performances.

From this strong foundation, Rachael, now sole owner of CVC, continues to develop and refine new vocal methods to help guide people towards freeing and illuminating their voices. A significant interest and development has been the research into reconnection to ones self and how once established, anxiety and self-consciousness greatly reduced and in many cases completely eradicated.

What is also prevalent is the ease with which we can begin to embody and enjoy the experience of singing. Through this process of reconnecting, vocal technique improves as the body is no longer under the stress of trying to meet some outer expectation of what the we may feel is required.

With some loving dedication, singing can become the simple equation of reconnecting to ones self and singing without the mind getting involved. Then, naturally, true vocal strength and power also become available as we begin to truly claim ouselves.

Rachael Kane has been singing for as long as she can remember. Using her voice to express herself in song has always felt pretty natural to her.

Although singing was her first artistic love, she thought for a time that she would like to be a dancer and so she completed two years full time at Bartuccio's Performing Arts School, studying many facets of dance, with a bit of singing and drama on the side.

It was not long after, that she was cast in the in the musicals Seven Little Australians and bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom. During this time she also regularly appeared in television commercials as an actor and has had parts in Neighbours, Halifax and hosted Channel 10 music video show Coca Cola Power Cuts.

She began playing guitar and writing songs in her early twenty's and released her first solo album 'Appetite' through Roadshow Music in 2002, her first single receiving massive radio airplay Australia wide and resulting in a top fifty single and a Publishing deal with Universal Music.

Rachael has toured nationally with her band, performed on Rove Live, Molly Meldrum's The Drum, Channel V, Good Morning Australia, Melbourne's Fox FM Rooftop performances, B105 Summer series of Concerts, and was the headline act at Chanel's Spring/Summer Fashion Launch in Hong Kong in 2004.

Rachael began Connected Voice in 2006 where she continues to develop a teaching method which focuses on combining present mind and body awareness with solid vocal technique.