The First Time Your Parents Heard You Sing Well

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:02pm

What was that experience like?
Updated On: 7/22/05 at 05:02 PM

[LoudIrishGirl]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:40pm

Haha...still hasn't happened.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:42pm

Well, seeing how I was offkey and loud as a lil kid. (still loud lol), my mom was rather blown away when she finally heard me sing as a young adult. It was a great feeling being able to share that with her.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:42pm

I don't know if there would be a "first time"...well, at least for my mom. She always told me that I had a beautiful voice and I was talented...(in fact, she told me before I believed her, but that's a different story).
With my dad though, he's great and everything, (for the record my parents are not divorced and they live together) but for some reason he has never really wanted to get involved with the things that interest me. I mean, he always sits outside in the car during piano lessons and voice lessons and such, and only comes to stuff when he 'has to'.
So I think the first time he actually believed I had talent was maybe like, a year ago-ish when I started to sing at church. I could always tell before that he thought it was like 'cute little girl singing' but then all these old people came up to him and told him how good I was and how much they liked me, and I think it finally hit him that I was good.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:44pm

I was awful when I was younger. Then I was in Annie Get Your Gun when I was 12. I sang the songs around the house and my mom got me voice lessons because she wanted me "to develop my talent".

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:46pm

When I was four years old, I was singing in the car and my mom started laughing because she didn't know I could sing. Same thing with my dad later. My brother just told me to shut up. That was about the first time I sang in front of my family.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:13pm

My dad is a very quiet, anti-social person, who can't even sit at the dinner table for more than a few minutes when we have guests over. As a kid I spent a lot of time with him, admiring his intensity and pure genious, but never really talked much. But every Friday night, in our Jewish household we would (and still do) sing various songs, but Jewish and otherwise, and his voice is gorgeous. We now harmonize perfectly and it is these moments when i feel closest to him. Just goes to show that music can say what words can't.

Akiva

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:21pm

please, my mom was/is such a pushover. i'd bring her some orange juice in the morning and she'd tear up over my "thoughtfulness."

[Plum]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:25pm

Now that I think about it, I don't remember a time my parents didn't encourage my performing. (Though they never wanted me to think about doing it professionally.) But I caught stage fright or something of the sort around age 11 and never sang solo or acted afterward.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:54pm

I'd like to apply for membership to the "I Sang Like Crap When I Was Younger But Look At Me Now" Club. I have a very theatre/musical oriented family and it wasn't looking so good until I hit middle school. I sang the National Anthem one year at a talent show and that's the first time my mom realized I could sing. Now she won't let me stop.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:56pm

WOW,

Did I ever read the title wrong. I read:The First Time You Heard Your Parents Sing Well...I need more sleep. And scratch my last post.

Akiva

[LoudIrishGirl]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:57pm

I wish my famiy was theatre/musical oriented. My mom thinks that if I see a show once, I don't need to see it again. Different casts don't change her POV. Oy. Which is part of why she hasn't heard me sing yet.

[shira467]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 7:23pm

I was 3 years old, and my mother put me on speakerphone with my grandmother - so the story goes, anyhow.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 7:23pm

Mine was when i was 12. I won the role of Fagin (for the first time) and it was production time and i'd been singing in rehearsels and round the house.... but never really infront of them. Anyway opening night came round and the guy that played Dodger was awesome and my mum and dad were really impresses and said "well if the whole cast is this good it'll be a good show!" Anyway i walked on and did my bits and then at the end of Reviewing the situation the whole audience went nuts, i got a standing ovation in the middle of the show and my mum was just crying her heart out. I walked on for my bow and same thing happened... then when i walked out of the changing area loads of people had waited and i got my first taste of what it must be like lol... that was what kick started me into acting too!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:37pm

I was 23 and an inpatient at the Institute of Living in Hartford which is a well know psychiatric hospital. I was really immesresed in drama and music therapy when I was there. I sang in a Broadway concert and performed Oh What A Beautiful Morning", "Send In The Clowns," and "Anything You Can Do". It was the first time I ever sang solo. { Except for Anything You can Do which was a duet}. I also appeared as Aunt Eller in a production of Oklahoma while I was there. My father was furious at this because he paid in cash for 8 months of treatment there and I wasn't supposed to be an actress. It was at that point I finally realized what kind of abuse I had been suffering since birth. He refused to come to Oklahoma. The rest is history and recovery.

Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:48pm

i was always shy about singing in front of my family. they never REALLY heard me sing until i was 13 and did a production of grease. i had a mediocre part, and only one solo. but i took advantage of it. my parents were pleasantly surprised. ever since they have been very supportive of me.

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:57pm

I am the fourth Gumm Sister - Anastasia Gumm.
You know the rest.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 10:52pm

Still has not happened.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 10:59pm

When I was 12, my mom heard me singing "A Parade in Town" from Anyone Can Whistle and encouraged me to take voice lessons.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:01pm

Hasn't happened yet and won't happen until both of my parents learn to take me seriously.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:22pm

My mom loves to hear me sing.

She really wants me to audition for the school musical this year...I think I will, to make her happy. She does so much for me.

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:48pm

They first heard me last year and I go so nervous I messed up really bad so that wasn't good. The first time they heard me sing well was this June at my voice recital where I sang "Unexpected Song" and my mom started crying.

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:07am

I really don't lik singing i front of my mom, she can be really judgemental.

[nychick9876]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:15am

my parents had heard me before in little solo bits and new i was a good singer, but i completely blew them away when i got my first lead. they had no idea i sounded like that. it was also one of the first times my school had heard me really sing and that was an even bigger shock. people still stop me to tell me how amazed they were almost 3 months after the performance.

[darkmist115]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:39pm

hm. the first time my parents heard me sing well.
i was never into music theatre until middle school, but i did do a talent show in 5th grade. i sang celine dion, and yes, i'm a male.
hah, of course that was when i still had my squeaky soprano voice.
since i've been developing my real voice, they've heard me around the house or at a few random variety shows. I did "Can yoU hear the people sing?" in 7th grade, and "A Step too Far" in 8th. I don't think they came to the latter. The first one sucked.
I got the lead (Baker in Into the Woods, Jr. (UCK. junior shows are no fun)) last year (spring 2004), but it was a middle school show, so it was all right. showed off my talents to an extent. didn't make the high school musical as a freshman, so no luck there, but i did do the variety show.
they came for the five minutes i sang, because they didn't care enough about anyone else.
my mother gave me a shallow hug and my father a weak handshake.
i guess that just furthered my realization that my parents don't care in the least bit about my passion for singing or theatre. they've never been supportive of theatre, and really could care less when i didn't make the musical as a freshman.

alas, to make a long story short, i suppose they've heard me sing well every so often, but it doesn't really matter to them, or to me, because i know they don't care at all.
sorry if at all this seems like a pity post, just stating the facts.

one of my biggest goals is to make something of myself in theatre so i can prove them wrong.


Richie