Welcome to The Creative Voice!

The Creative Voice is a Vocal Wellness Studio built to empower you with the tools you need to rediscover your artistic voice, and most authentic personal expression, through voice lessons, life coaching, wellness activities, alternative music education experiences, and acquiring new business skills that help empower your work. We’re envisioning a world where your creative projects make a greater impact because your voice is empowered and you love what you do every day (and are well resourced doing it).

Founded in 2019, by Singer, Songwriter & Coach, Christina Bailey, The Creative Voice’s approach is rooted in a bio-psycho-social mindset on the voice. Your mind, body, and social environment shape your voice and communication. We use a combination of evidence and science-based voice training, somatic exercises, life coaching activities, community mentorship, and entrepreneurial business principals so you can create a well-rounded “voice toolkit” that supports you as you build the most creative, fulfilled, life possible. A life full of love and appreciation for your voice and surrounding community.

Singer, Songwriter, Vocal Embodiment Coach

Meet Christina Bailey

Christina Bailey often refers to herself as a “rock n’ roll renaissance woman”, a title that attempts to reflect curiosity and interest in the constant rebirth of music, art, and philosophy. As a lifelong student of vocal music, Christina grew up singing in church, private voice lessons, and multiple choirs, before studying choral music conducting in University. Before finishing her Masters, she shifted into a life as a Songwriter and Performing Artist where her love for vocal harmonies and composition expanded within indie-rock band formats. Christina spent the early 2010’s sharing stages with acts such as The Punch Brothers, Jackie Greene, Abigail Washburn, Phil Lesh & Friends, David Gray, and The Doobie Brothers.

As band formations changed, Christina moved from Monterey, California to Nashville, TN where she became a published songwriter and released her first solo EP: Christina Bailey & The Civil Men, Love and War. At the heart of Christina’s songwriting lies a deep exploration of the internal dialogue within relationships, each lyric a reflection of her own experiences and insights. Sharing her own music, under her name, proved to be a vulnerable challenge. Following the release, Christina struggled with artistic setbacks dealing with her own mental health. Not long after, as many experienced, life after 2020 became transformative. Christina alchemized her painful moments coping with stagnancy as an artist, grief from loss of loved ones, and her own shadow work, to form a business in support of artists mental health. The Creative Voice began to form in 2019 and has slowly developed as an online resource for multi-passionate artists seeking space to reignite their creative fire to get back to their passion work.

Behind the scenes, Christina has infused the same fire into her own work, gaining new vocal health certifications from the Voice Care Centre in London, Life Coaching Certifications focused on mentoring Artists, and Somatic Certifications in Mind-Body Coaching. In 2021, after returning to California, Christina fell back in love with choral music and group singing, and quickly became an active community arts advocate and choral musician, helping produce unique concerts and experiences for local choral organization, I Cantori di Carmel and the Central Coast Chamber Choir.

In Fall 2024, Christina is launching a unique Music Education Event Series called Baroque & Unknown, with support from the Arts Council of Monterey County. The series will highlight 8 Unknown Baroque Women Composers and play with immersive music education through food pairings, guest lectures, and live performances. The series aims to invite more women’s voices back to singing and making music - no matter their age, or time away from the art.

Driven to be in service of music, Christina is dedicated to helping artists love their voices, both metaphorically and physically.

Artist Mentors

The Creative Voice is fortunate to have a dedicated team of faculty members, also known as Artist Mentors, available for coaching behind-the-scenes. Artist Mentors provide invaluable support to the members of the Creative Voice Community. These mentors co-create content, offer insightful courses, and provide assistance in the development of teaching materials. Interested in connecting? Email us to learn more.

Voice Mentor: Kendra Chantelle

Voice Mentor: Stephanie Kong

Voice Mentor & Events Co-Producer: Soph Gonzalez

The Creative Voice Manifesto

What will you find inside The Creative Voice? A value system rooted in loving your voice through radical self acceptance, compassion, and a deconstructed view of standardized voice training and education. Why? We’ve found through years of coaching artists, and seeking mentorship with experienced Voice Educators, that for most, vocal freedom is found in liberating a mindset rooted in perfectionism and hierarchal thinking. Music is our bloodline, singing is our birthright. We musn’t let anyone, or any type of idealism, shame this within us.

  • Your voice is our mind, body, breath, energy, belief system, core values, shape of your tongue, state of hydration for the day. Your voice is fully encompassing of all of the parts of you, and you deserve love.

  • The term “voiceworker” can easily apply to any human who finds their self-awareness and development best through the investigation of voice, art, creativity, and holy creative flow. It’s ever expansive work that shows up more and more as you grow and try to break through to becoming your favorite you. At the Creative Voice we aim to choose voicework over discomfort by engaging in our truth and integrity when it is the most scary and intimidating to do so.

  • The creeks and cracks in your voice, just like your fears and hesitations, are pathways and invitations for your continued self discovery and resilience.

  • How can you be creative and serve others the fierceness that is you, if you can’t pay your electricity bill? We’re here to defy the Artist Struggle mentality and build income streams that empower our lives and hold our value.

  • Creative people need creative tools to help them reconnect with their voice and self expression. We need time to talk, create, express, and lead. We don’t always need this space with a Therapist, sometimes we need a community circle, songwriting session, writing prompt. Our healing tools are unique to us.

  • No one knows your voice better than you. Only you can observe, sense, and feel your instrument, and through these observations, you have deeper, more informed insight than any teacher could ever share. Let this knowing inform how you let others speak about your voice.

  • Many of us grew up believing perfectionism was a key way to become a more excellent and more disciplined artist and person. Instead, many of us embodied tenants of supremacy and colonialism through this mindset. We must fight to break the cycle by unapologetically loving our voice and loving one another through messages of “imperfection” and a desire to self sacrifice in order to be loved.

  • Creatives are often pit against one another. We compete in game shows, in auditions, for clients in our areas, for gigs. Institutionalized art making can lead to competition, loneliness, isolation, and a lack of community support which is what fuels the life of a working artist. We’re here to explore what it means to truly work together and uplift one another.

  • It is deeply important to document your life. Your voice, your experiences, your heiroglyphs on the wall are a message to future voiceworkers.

  • Writing music is accessible to you. It is also a pathway to the divine and a pathway to a deeper connection with music.

  • Transforming your relationship with death - shifts your relationship with your voice, your life, and your art. We choose to let life and the reality of death be present in our daily life in order to expand how we talk and make art about the world.