Roger Whittaker is often sited as being one of the first well-known whistling musicians. Whitaker released dozens of albums beginning in with his album New World in the Morning. Other well-known musicians, that dabbled in whistling, included Bing Crosby and Ronnie Ronalde among others. Is it tough to break into the whistling game? Most definitely, as making a living as a professional whistler is indeed similar to making a living as a rock musician, which is obviously a very tough field to break into.
If you do have an incredible whistling ability and you have the time to practice and cultivate a new sound, well, who knows maybe you too can join Ronnie Ronalde, Roger Whittaker and the other famous whistlers in music history. If you can become the next professional whistling sensation then the sky is the limit and all the groupies are yours! It's time to aim higher, reach farther and dream bigger.
Makiko Mizuno -- Wonderful whistler from Japan. David Morris -- World Whistling Champion Dan Neufeld -- Los Angeles-based instrumentalist, composer, arranger and whistler who has enjoyed an extremely successful career as a violist in the Hollywood studios. A world champion. Ronnie Ronalde -- One of the world's most famous whistlers.
Kazu Sasahara -- A finger flutist with an incredibly beautiful sound. Curro Kurt Savoy -- French whistler -- "Le roi des siffleurs". Susan Silton and the Crowing Hens -- Los Angeles based artist has created an all-female whistling ensemble to perform theme songs from male-dominated films.
Ryosuke Takeuchi -- An excellent jazz whistler. He performs all over the world. He is the organizer and head judge of the World Whistling Convention in Japan. Clodine Tardy -- This French whistler goes around the world whistling songs from Bizet, Schubert, Rossini or Mozart, accompanied by a philharmonic pocket orchestra and his stage-furniture. Chris Ullman -- Chris Ullman is the four-time national and international whistling champion.
For more than 30 years he's loved to whistle, sharing his improvisational riffs and classical interpretations with millions of people around the world.
His book, "Find Your Whistle" is available on his website. Kimiko Wakiyama -- A world champion that teaches, performs, plays the ukulele and is a concert pianist. She is seen all over Japan on TV. Sue Zwit-Frantzen Byrdie Sue -- Sue is a whistler who uses her teeth to whistle while most others use their lips. A lot of the performers, who included musicians and ballet dancers, were pretty nervous.
When the queen came in, a weird frisson went through the audience. There was a circus performer in a feathered bird costume, hidden in the church ceiling. The queen was very appreciative: it was a special moment. I made the transition last summer; I had been working with homeless people, and felt close to burnout. Then Cirque du Soleil emailed me to say they were looking for a whistler.
I open the Corteo show as the ringmaster. Then I go into a duet with the violinist, backed by an orchestra. I do between 75 and concerts a year and earn twice as much as I did as a nurse. I also run whistling workshops. I like to whistle recorder concertos by Vivaldi, but also jazz or blues.
Watch him break down how he achieves his show-stopping performances. That's what I do, I whistle. We practice many hours and try to attempt to get whistling to be taken a little bit more seriously. He's whistled the National Anthem before crowds of thousands. Sean Lomax. Whistling has taken Lomax around the world. It doesn't matter what country I'm in. If I whistle a song, it has way of just breaking barriers. People appreciate it and it comes across to people. We whistle to express excitement.
Whistling is even used as a language in places like Turkey and the Canary Islands. This is a very melodic, great, great piece. Could whistle it backwards and forwards, whistle it in my sleep. And my wife said I actually used to do that, whistle in my sleep. His whistling makes even the simplest songs sound sophisticated. Okay, for example, this is how most people would whistle Pop Goes the Weasel.
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