Thank you very much for such a detailed response!
Alfie Boe in Opera - with what sounds like techniques you are talking about. Both have good voices, but Alfie Boe can only sing in the way he was taught, which is very similar to the technique base you are describing.
It's interesting that you thought that the techniques I am describing come from classical vocal teacher. No, this teacher is teaching pure pop singing, but her exercises focused on the voice rage and strength increase. They spend 40 minutes at the lesson just singing different exercises, then 20 minutes to sing pop songs. The other person who is against this method for kids is from a classic school, singing operetta, training operetta singers as well. He says that such an intensive practice of the voice improvement techniques can lead to kind of "stretching of the chords" at this early age and can lead to bad singing for adult.
The word FORBIDDEN is a little strong. Forbidden by whom?
Huh, forbidden by Nature may be
this is what I understood from all the explanations about voice anatomy and specifics of young voice development
What I think is for certain is that we're really NOT talking about damage, but we are talking about developing techniques that will be very difficult to change later. For good or bad. What she does now at her age does matter. The trouble is, at her age, how does she know what she wants to do later?
Agree! For example, the current teacher teaches her to sing like pop singer, making her mouth smiling while singing. She tries to do it and it looks very unnatural. But she can't do better yet. All the exercises that they do she asks her to sing with a smile on the face, do not make her mouth rounded like in a classical singing. The other teacher who is the opponent here says that this is wrong because child at this age should just sing with a feeling like she likes, trying to repeat after original.
The issue is about what she is singing for? Fun or career development. Maybe 6 is too young for her to choose, and you can't choose for her.
You know, both of them say that she has an in-born talent that should be taken care for the future, but one teacher says that she should be trained and her vocals should be improved by learning special techniques and the other says that at this age it's enough just giving her good reference music to listen and sing, some lessons of actors skills would benefit now more than teaching techniques. I am as a parent have to make a choice who is right
it's so hard for a person who is far from professional singing.
Does she enjoy it? Is it giving her confidence? Is she still 'normal'?
She enjoys singing, she sings all kind of songs, but there are some songs that she likes and some she doesn't like. to my opinion, besides singing little bit better than other kids, she is absolutely normal child
However, is she singing for fun, or for the future?
I really don't know. So many many things depend on this decision and I simply don't know. We try not to focus too much on singing, we focus on learning languages at this moment. But I am getting in doubts each time when hear from someone that the child is talented in music and needs to be developed in this area more. How to know that?