With her experience and versatility in the performance of multiple vocal genres, Ms Deborah Rogers (stage name) has been a sought after stage and concert presence nationally and internationally for over 20 years.
And this is how my performing arts biography would start.
For over 25 years I have trained and performed as a professional opera singer and crossover artist, performing and travelling around the world doing what I thought I loved. I am an award-winning singer, finalist of national singing competitions in Australia, performed with artists and companies of national and international renown, have recorded two albums, and you can tie it up with a trailing long ribbon of qualifications/certifications in music, education and an alphabet after my name (you can read my full bio here).
While this has been a fun life to lead and to the outsider, perhaps a glamorous one, there has been a strong knowing that my life was not meant for the theatre stages. Wearing a mask and covering over the heart, while enjoyable for a time, left me feeling empty and unseen. My devotion to performing was falling away and I was left with a divine pull to explore the intricacies of vocal expression and performance training for those seeking to find their voice; not just sing but speak with aligned authenticity and gravitas.
In 2013, the veil of the performing arts world was stripped away when the beginning of my spiritual awakening jolted me into "the unseen". I was drawn into the darkness, left unable to function, advised the management of the company I was working with at the time that I would be able to perform the role I was currently onstage for and unable to advise how long I would be out. At the end of the year, I was in discussions with my mentor and he told me "that I was weak, that I should never have exposed my true feelings to wear a mask to cover it up." The veil fell away in a dramatic swoop of cloth and I was exposed to the harsh and blinding truth: that even here, in the world of performing arts, I was not able to be a full and whole expression of myself.
I wasn't interested.
I was more interested in the deep than the shallow and I went diving. It opened up the world of energy, frequency, the power of the voice to heal and break free.... Here I find myself today after 10 years in and out of the shadows of my soul and psyche, releasing my first path of performing and stepping into the culmination of all.
I have since found myself teaching at both University and High School levels, speaking and facilitating Masterclasses and group classes in voice and performance training as well as coaching professional artists in vocal development that combined my spiritual fire and energetic awareness of sound and frequency with technical vocal considerations.
The now is where I have landed and while this brand will evolve, as I am also evolving, it is here to share with you my whole and fullest expression because in this world, I am here....
"to teach the women called to heal this world to release their holy voice, their roar, so that they may be the embodiment of their most powerful and impactful expression."
This is the work I am called to do.
It is my honour to serve.
And so it is.
Welcome and let me introduce myself...
Ms D. Rogers
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