Harsha Channa
SEnior Vocal Coach @ TVS CENTRAL & EAST
(EAST on SUNDAYS)
Harsha teaches:
Children, Adults
Beginner, Intermediate
Pop, Bollywood
“Harsha catches the details of my singing that I didn’t recognize and helps me better understand myself.”
About
Harsha is a highly intuitive singer and vocal coach with roots in Western pop-vocal training and Hindustani classical music. Her experience spans English pop, Bollywood, classical and operatic styles, jazz-influenced phrasing, and musical theatre. This wide-ranging background allows her to help students explore the full expressive range of their voices — from soaring, powerful high notes to intimate, soulful tones — always focusing on authenticity, health, and ease.
Currently pursuing her Masters in Counselling, Harsha brings an understanding of both voice and emotion to her teaching. Her lessons nurture not only vocal freedom and technique but also personal confidence and self-expression. With years of experience performing with live bands on stage, she added another feather to her cap in 2023 by learning conversational Tamil and earning a place in the Top 11 of Singapore’s Vasantham Star, demonstrating both her versatility and her ability to connect with diverse audiences.
Experience
Harsha has been a performer for the last 10 years and a vocal coach for the last 7 years. With her theatre, pedagogy, voice, and counselling background, she designs lessons tailored to each student’s voice, anatomy, and goals. Students have performed/learned songs in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Cantonese, Hindi, Japanese, Malay, Mandarin, Punjabi and Tamil, reflecting the truly multilingual nature of her approach.
Approach
Having faced and overcome the same challenges that all beginner/intermediate singers would encounter — from vocal tension to stage nerves — Harsha guides students with both technical precision and emotional sensitivity. Her counselling studies enrich her ability to create a safe, encouraging space where students can sing with freedom and physical ease using techniques adapted to their own voice, including Speech Level Singing for effortless, tension-free sound.
Every session is customized to support both personal growth and structured skill development. During lessons, vocal blockages are addressed directly, helping singers release tension, rebuild confidence, and discover their natural voice. Students often feedback having found greater ease and freedom in singing in their authentic voice which renews their passion for singing entirely.
Her holistic, intuitive coaching helps every student grow — whether they want to master pop vocals, Bollywood melodies, classical or operatic techniques, jazz-inspired colors, or the storytelling power of musical theatre.