Carrie & David G are the UK’s best known pop vocal coaches, initially through their respective roles as vocal coaches and judges in Fame Academy, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and Pop Idol coaches. They have worked with some of the UK’s leading artists including Lemar, Melanie C, Will Young and Charlotte Church. They have team of vocal coaches who work together with them.

Most people think we no longer have the time to teach but that’s not true. Coaching is still our passion and we always allocate some time to do lessons. When time allows we are always keen to teach everyone from beginners to 'stars'. Over the past ten years we have also trained a handful of others who teach alongside us. We are very proud of our team and it’s fab to see them passing on all the knowledge they’ve acquired over the past decade. For instance, we were so proud to see Seyara and John coaching on the last series of Pop Idol.

Tash organises the vocal lesson side of things and she is also now our main coach.

We are often asked how we got started as vocal coaches.
The journey started in the early 80’s. I (Carrie) had trained for fourteen years as a dancer and became a TV dancer on leaving school. At sixteen I also had my first record deal, at seventeen I represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest and at 18 I became a TV presenter. It was in ‘86 I bumped into David, who was appearing on a TV show I was fronting. He had accumulated over a dozen hit records between 1980-86, spent over 100 weeks on the UK chart and been nominated for a Brit Award.

Throughout this period and after we took singing lessons with top voice coaches both here in the UK and in the States. By the early 90’s we were running a full-time Arts school in Notting Hill in London and we were obsessed with the sound of the human voice. Our singing work was growing all the time and we found ourselves leading vocal sections for many top UK and US stars. Where lessons continued to give us technique the vocal section work sharpened our insight into the group dynamic of the voice.

It was during one such job that we really took on our role as vocal coaches. We were singing with Take That and the guys were always asking how we managed to get such a great sound from our group of singers. Eventually their management asked us to do the same for the boys on a forthcoming tour. One thing led to another and soon we found ourselves coaching pretty much full time. We were still taking lessons ourselves throughout this period and even though today we give, rather than receive lessons, we are always keen to learn and grow in what we do.

We also love playing music generally. David grew up playing the drums and piano, I learned guitar and saxaphone and later took lessons in Jazz piano. Getting better as instrumentalists is always our long-term aim but maybe one we’re going to have to leave till retirement!