Rachel Hardy is a Canadian composer, vocalist, and cover artist. As a composer, she recently co-composed the soundtrack for Clockwork Labs’ MMORPG BitCraft Online alongside Grammy-nominated and two-time BAFTA-winning composer Austin Wintory. She also worked as a music supervisor for Hidden Path Entertainment on the development of an unannounced AAA Dungeons & Dragons RPG.
She has lent vocals to a number of video games such as Eternal Strands, Absolum, and Last Epoch, and has amassed a dedicated audience on YouTube, where she creates covers of songs from video games, film, and television franchises. Please welcome Rachel Hardy.
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Andi Deris: The Voice of Helloween
Andi Deris is singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known through his work with German power metal band, Helloween.
Helloween is formed in 1984 in Hamburg by guitarist Michael Weikath, bassist Markus Grosskopf, drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg, and guitarist/vocalist Kai Hansen. The band’s early Keeper of the Seven Keys albums helped define the European power-metal sound with soaring melodies, dual guitar harmonies, and anthemic choruses. Over time, Helloween navigated personnel changes, stylistic shifts, internal tensions, and even tragedy with the loss of Schwichtenberg, yet they remained one of the most enduring and influential names in metal. In 2016, the group reunited its classic and modern lineups under the banner Pumpkins United, bringing together former vocalists Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen alongside the current members for a world tour and a self-titled album celebrating their decades-long legacy.
Andi Deris joined Helloween in 1994, following the departure of Michael Kiske. Before that, he co-founded the melodic metal band Pink Cream 69, earning recognition for his vocal power, range, and songwriting skill. Deris ushered Helloween into a new creative era with albums such as Master of the Rings, The Time of the Oath, Better Than Raw, The Dark Ride, and the modern Pumpkins United projects. His warm yet commanding vocal tone and dynamic stage presence helped stabilize the band through the shifting tides of the metal scene, and his compositional contributions have been central to Helloween’s continued evolution as one of the genre’s defining forces.
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Mark Garrett: Master of Harsh Vocals
Mark Garrett is a professional vocal coach, voice teacher, singer, and songwriter, specializing in harsh vocal techniques, and teaching through his vocal program, Kardavox Academy. Mark has spent 15 years as a metal vocalist, fronting Kardashev on Metal Blade Records, releasing eight studio projects, and performing internationally. His methods for teaching blend real-world experience with vocal science, and has earned him a place as a research subject in a study on extreme vocals carried out by The Charismatic Voice and The University of Utah. Mark has helped thousands of singers remove strain and find their own sound. Please welcome Mark Garrett.
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David Kahn: The Double Low C
David Kahn is a bass singer, songwriter, and traveling musician, known widely throughout the bass and gospel communities for performing numerous double low Cs in live performance with The Stamps Quartet. David initially rose to notoriety through YouTube, where he showcased his unique vocal range, demonstrating down to F#1 in subharmonics all the way through tenor high C (C5) in chest voice. In addition to touring with The Stamps (and performing JD Sumner's double low Cs night after night), David has been independently touring internationally with his own music. He is connected with many of the great basses of this modern generation, including Bobby Bass, Big Brev, and numerous others from the professional acapella community. Please welcome David Kahn.
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Logan Alexandra: Make Viral Music
Logan Alexandra is a professional singer, songwriter, and social media sensation, best known for her viral choir memes. She has over 650,000 subscribers on YouTube, and an entire discography of original music with accompanying music videos. Logan and Peter are both in the YouTube Creator Collective program in Arizona, along with creatives like Elizabeth Zharoff, Kardovox Academy, Pink Shirt Girl, Demibaby, and many more. Please welcome Logan Alexandra.
Hi everyone, and welcome to Vocal Arts, the podcast that explores the world of professional voice artists. My name is Peter Barber, and I’ll be your guide along this path of vocal performance. I’m primarily a professional opera singer, music producer, and bass vocalist. Over the course of my career, I’ve trained and performed with world-class singers. I’ve learned all about the physiology and function of the human voice from leading voice scientists. I started a successful group of four bass singers called The Bass Gang, and I’ve grown my YouTube audience from 0 to over 250,000 subscribers via musical analysis videos. Beyond that, I currently sing opera professionally as a Studio Artist with Arizona Opera. I’ve performed in basically every genre from EDM to chamber choir, and with an undergrad major in audio engineering, I can comfortably bridge the gap between live performance and studio recordings, from the grandiose space of a 3000-seat opera house to the intimate, sound-proof booths used in voiceover. But perhaps most importantly, I’m an artist, fascinated by the various careers in vocal performance, and inspired to learn more about them from the best and brightest vocal talent the world has to offer. Thank you so much for joining me on this journey, and no matter what your involvement is within the world of vocal arts, I hope that here, on this podcast, you can both learn something and enjoy. This is Peter Barber, and I’ll see you next time on Vocal Arts.
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