Draft:Arthur Samuel Joseph

Arthur Samuel Joseph (born January 23, 1946) is an American author, speaker and vocal mentor from Los Angeles, California. He is known for developing and trademarking a teaching method called Vocal Awareness.

In 1964, he founded the Vocal Awareness Institute, a company headquartered in Encino, California, that provides vocal and leadership education to people through public and private seminars and master classes.

Joseph has written seven books about vocal training.

Celebrities who has joined Joseph’s programs includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Angelina Jolie, Sally Field, Steven Seagal, Aaron Boone, Barry Larking, Magic Johnson, Dwayne Wade.

Early Life
Arthur Samuel Joseph was born in 1946 in Glendale, California, in a Jewish family. After his father walked out, he was raised by his mother, who signed him up in accordion classes at the age of 4. During his childhood, Joseph joined a choir, but his vocal talent was fully discovered when he was 15 years old by a singing teacher named Julia Kinsel , to whom his first book is dedicated (The Sound of the Soul: Discovering the Power of Your Voice, 1996).

Joseph started working on his Vocal Awareness method in the 1960s. He often recounts surviving on food stamps with his wife by that time.

Six decades later, Arthur Samuel Joseph is considered the celebrities vocal mentor and his success led to be praised in Forbes as a keynote speaker and educator of body language and vocal projection.

Career
Arthur Samuel Joseph majored in music, philosophy and psicology, and started teaching at 18.

In 1982, Joseph briefly moved to New York to be the vocal director for the film Annie, starring Aileen Quinn and directed by John Huston. That same year, he was part of the cast of the TV movie Our Voices Ourselves alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, both of them acting as themselves.

He was a profesor of voice at the University of Southern California School of Theater, also a visiting artist at both Yale and George Washington Universities. Joseph served as a visiting professor in the New York University Graduate Extension program.

In 2017, he created the first professional vocal training program for sportscasting talent at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.

The Wall Street Journal called Arthur Samuel Joseph a “communications expert” and he was voted Best of the Best by the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).

Vocal Awareness
Founder and chairman of the Vocal Awareness Institute, Arthur Samuel Joseph has described the Vocal Awareness method as “mindful leadership and communication mastery”.

He has mentored several actors, singers, athletes, politicians, business people, broadcasters.

His mission is “to change the world trough voice” so Vocal Awareness proprietary method displays speaking and vocal techniques in books, CDs, DVDs, workshops and seminars.

In his book Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication Mastery (2013), Joseph emphasizes in some patterns of habits  that he introduces as the 7 Rituals, which are: Thank You to My Source, Love and Let Go, Allow a Slow, Silent, Conscious Loving Breath, See the Edge and Arc of Sound, Take My Time, Pay Attention/Deeper Listening, and Be My Self.

His lectures are also focused on concepts that he defends as his own, such as Visceral Language, stated as a technique to gave visual and emotional estructure to the voice.

Books Authored

 * The Sound of the Soul: Discovering the Power of Your Voice (first published 1996). Vocal Awareness Institute. ISBN 1-55874-407-X.


 * Sing Your Heart Out: The Vocal Awareness Method for Releasing Your Natural Voice (first published in 1997). Sounds True. ISBN: 1564554880.


 * Vocal Awareness: How to Discover, Nurture, and Project Your Natural Voice (first published in 1997). Sounds True. ISBN-10: ‎ 1591792312. ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-1591792314.


 * Vocal Power: Harnessing the Power Within (first published in 2003). Vocal Awareness Institute. ISBN-10: ‎ 1588720640. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1588720641.


 * Voice of a Leader: Vocal Awareness to Empower Your Communication in Business and in Life (2007). Sounds True. ISBN: 9781591795636.


 * Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication Mastery (2013). McGraw Hill. ISBN: 9780071807715.


 * Vocal Power: Harness Your Inner Voice to Conquer Everyday Communication Challenges (2014). McGraw Hill. ISBN: 9780071807753.