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i can't lose a lover but i cannot lose a

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lover and a friend

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because i am trans i wanted to train my

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speaking voice to be something a little

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bit different because my voice used to

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sound like this i wanted to

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have a voice that i was more comfortable

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with

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i feel like my range of voice is me

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accepting myself at all angles

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my name is nat puff i am a

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singer-songwriter i also go by the stage

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name left at

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this is the range that i talk in and

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occasionally sing in but when i sing i

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also utilize my low range i have this

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song called six feet for example that

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utilizes both ranges the verses are like

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oftentimes i scare my reflection

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and then the chorus is like i know that

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you don't know me but i know just who

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you are

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i'm the only trans woman that i know of

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that uses both ranges in songwriting can

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i hear that back i'm going to be

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harmonizing over it

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and even if it's more commonly

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stereotyped as men having that lower

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range i'm not going to let that bring me

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down because i know who i am

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if i succumb to the stereotype then

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nobody wins

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it took me about two years to

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train my voice to go into both ranges in

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the way that it has because it's not as

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simple as just like talking in your

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lower range and then talking in your

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falsetto range because it sounds like

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this and it sounds very airy and it

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sounds very

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weird you literally have to sort of

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learn how to re-support your voice in

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this range and that took a while

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there's admittedly some parts of me that

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still get a little bit dysphoric about

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my voice like damn i had to go through

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all this training and most other women

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don't have to do that but i just

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accepted and moved on and i feel like my

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music is better for that

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i've had people come up to me saying

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you've made me feel more comfortable

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with my lower range even though you talk

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in your higher range

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people feel represented which makes me

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feel happy that people can find comfort

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in their own voice because having such a

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strange relationship with my own voice

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being that for somebody else is very

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very special to me

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i feel like as an artist and as a person

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and as a trans person as every part of

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me is just embracing myself

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