Your vocal coach and therapist
More than photos, texts or diplomas, it is my voice that best represents who I am ...
Here is my background in a few words ...
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I am Laurence Lo Presti, born June 8th, 1982 in Brussels.
My parents, a Belgian mother and a italian father, both share the same all-consuming passion for music. As a family, with my brother and my sister, we often organize " little concerts " at home, moments that create wonderful memories...
From the age of 6, they enrolled me in pre-music theory lessons at the Brussels music academy, as well as in the Da Capo children's choir .
Already at that time, when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always the same: “ professional singer ”.
For me, this has always sounded obvious...
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From my 11th birthday I started to take singing lessons at the academy of music with
my first teacher, Claudine Arnaud, who also introduced me to the basics of
belly breathing and sophrology.
I also took piano and theater lessons.
At 16, I reached very high notes, and my teacher arranged for my voice to be recorded
in an "endoscopic" version for clinical studies.
This is the time of my first concerts and recitals at the Academy of Music and at school events; at the same time I was also singing and playing piano in church.
​"Voices of Europe 2000"
was a very important event in my musical journey.
as I was one of the 10 young Belgians selected for an
international tour in 8 European countries.
Between 2000 and 2011, under the stage name of Lauryn Gaet,
I have more than 200 concerts to my credit, in 11 different countries.
I sing both as a soloist and as a second voices or in choirs
for other artists.
I have a vast repertoire of styles that evolve over the course of my
collaborations (opera, French, English and Italian songs, techno,
trance, symphonic metal, movie music, rap, jazz & piano bar).
Moreover, 5 Belgian, French and Swiss artists invited me to sing
on their albums.
I won 8 competition prizes and sung in different choirs.
I also did television and radio presenter.
A journey full of beautiful encounters and wonderful memories ...
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In 2011 I graduated as a Nature-Guide (CNB - Belgium) and the theme of nature - which was already very important to me - will become even more important.
From that moment on, I orient my singing and my texts towards nature, its beauty and its preservation.
The film "Home" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, released around this period, inspires me the vocals and the text of "Dying world". (Music Factor23 - Production Holophonix). A video clip is shot in London.
​In 2012, I became songwriter-composer at the "Sabam"
with my project "Natagonya" and the album "Oceans die".
Some titles from the album:
​From 2012 to 2017, I focused on types of arts.
I have participated in painting exhibitions (pastel artists from Belgium),
and obtained my degrees as MUAH (make-up artist and hairstylist) and Relooking at De schoonheidsshool Antwerp.
From 2012-2013, my dad became interested in nutritherapy and we took part in many of Laurence Fischer's workshops.
​In 2017, I met Maggy from Myriad Voice
who motivated me to give singing and impro-theater lessons
in a Cultural Center, and in a Center for young people.
At the same time, I organized singing and theater lessons near my house.
I graduated in music therapy with Rachida Drissi and Yves Michaux,
which I completed with a specific training on rhythm
and support for disabled people.
Then I became a Reiki practitioner and a "positive coach".
I moved from being a singing and competition's coach to doing more
"open voice and articulation" for my students, and to helping people
with speech impairments or disabilities, sometimes caused
by burn-out or a disease that altered their voice.
With this experience, singing takes on a whole new dimension for me:
personal development and being centered;
self-confidence and fulfillment!
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"I'm a luthier; I build and repair voices ..."
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March 2020: first Covid quarantine in Belgium and sudden stop of all my activities as a teacher, coach and therapist.
I continue to take care of myself through Reiki treatments;
I also practice Meditation and Qi Gong.
I focus on myself, I start singing during my self-healing Reiki sessions and I feel extremely deep and self-healing vibrations.
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This is how "ReikiVox" was born,like a ray of sunshine in a world that has suddenly become dark ...
Then, in August 2021, I suffered a terrible ordeal...
Already weakened by 2 close bereavements (including that of my dad, my musical mentor); putting myself under increasing pressure in a food job in the banking sector where I was less and less aligned, and having lost that essential balance of social contact and fulfilment in singing with my dear pupils, I had a 'health crash'.
After 3 sleepless nights, on the 4th night I had a muscle twitch in my chest - which I thought was a heart attack - that paralysed my left arm and froze my jaw and neck; and my body gave out completely... physically and mentally...
Within 1 month I lost my voice completely and I couldn't speak for 3 months... I communicate by writing in a notebook...
I'm in total medical limbo... I was prescribed antidepressants, sleeping pills and PPIs, hoping that it would pass...
Over the next 2 years, I explored every possible therapy - medical, paramedical and spiritual...
Little by little I found my voice again, but it remained extremely fragile, unstable and very quickly exhausted or even inflamed...
BUT it is said that the worst trials in life sometimes bring us the most beautiful gifts... And it's true! And it's true! (In a nuanced way, of course - I would have preferred not to have gone through this!)
I did endless research into the voice, its physical and psychological mechanisms, to understand what was happening to mine and how to get it back - perhaps not "as it was before" but as well as possible...
I've qualified, certified and trained in a range of physical and psychological therapies (you can find a full, non-exhaustive list of my qualifications here). Thanks to this, I'm able to help more and more people who come to me with vocal problems or blockages, whether physical or mental/emotional!
I've developed voice-related programmes in a variety of contexts: endometriosis, sleep disorders and post-traumatic stress (burn-out, depression, bereavement, etc.).
Since September 2022 I've been giving conferences on these subjects and since June 2023 I've been teaching voice therapy at university.
In September 2023 I fell in love with an extraordinary man whom I asked to marry me (he said yes ;-)
A personal development coach specialising in neuroscience, Ruddy Lorent - Rol'In Coaching - shares my love and values and we have joint personal and professional projects. I found a new balance and a new motivation with him and his wonderful daughter - I have a new family and I believe more than ever in the miracle of love...
It was an unexpected journey that I now find so beautiful and rich in knowledge, encounters and sharing!
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I accept my voice for what it is, and as I write these lines, I still have to constantly manage my time in lessons, in the studio, and above all in silence and recuperation... So I've chosen to give it a meaning, a purpose, a mission...
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I sing to help others, for the Oceans and for Inclusion.
"I have no children; so here is my offering to the universe:
Radiate my heart and vibrate my voice for a better world..."
Laurence