2025 Competition Entry:

What I’m for by Maria Soriano

Genre

Pop

Artist

Website

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

I am the singer and the keyboardist. This is recorded in a friend’s studio, who added the effects.

Description

It responds to some phenomenal training for women that I received with coach Kasia Urbaniak, which was empowering, uplifting and full of hope.

Bio

I have been a voice teacher for more than twenty years, having studied voice professionally, dedicating the first part of my career to being a performing musician in Early Music and later in Contemporary Improvisation.

With my initial interest in the voice, I have a holistic understanding of not just how to to use your voice effectively, but also how to present yourself to a public and communicate what you are passionate about. My experience include teaching in numerous specialist professional schools, including the famous Spanish Theatre and TV school, TAI.

This work led me to develop another passion, and that is understanding behaviour and how to catch the attention non only of an audience, but how to better engage with my students, deal with difficult behaviours and promote change.

As many passions, it started out of a deep need. I never felt I was the most gifted at setting boundaries or engaging my own students. I would find it hard to react when there was serious misbehaviour, conflict and even abusive situations. But my love for teaching and supporting people made me want to learn how to reach out and manage those sometimes difficult situations, engaging better and dealing better with conflict.

I really wanted to find ways to be able to teach, get my message through, be listened and be able to deal with the sometimes difficult situations of both the professional and personal world. . This took me to study coaching, counselling, power dynamics, communication, behaviour management and verbal self defense.


I believe that your voice is not just to make pretty sounds, but to allow you to say what you want and express your needs, to highlight what needs to change and to aim for better. I currently make use of it as radio host, and still stream my music and the music and voices of others, so we can bring change together.

Find an extended version of my bio here: https://mariainuk.wixsite.com/lifeforcetraining/my-world

Lyrics

I don’t want you to ask me more questions
Of those questions to which I can’t reply,
I will question your right to be putting me
Right on the spot on the blink of an eye

What I want, what I need,
what I yearn for, and adore…
is what I’m fighting for.

I don’t want to go home ruminating
What I could have done better today,
Instead of self-obsessing, I best count my blessings
And put my discomfort away.

I don’t want to be asked if I’m married
If I’m settled, or single or lone,
when you’re checking your chances, to plan your advances
or sending me pics to my phone.

What I want, what I need,
what I yearn for, and adore…
is what I’m fighting for…. I’m fighting for
I don’t want to be fighting against you,
or defending myself from the rest,
I don’t want to be running home late
with the keys in my hand and hoping for the best.

I don’t want to be told that I’m pretty,
I don’t need to be told that I’m cute,
I don’t want to be told that you didn’t expect
That I wouldn’t turn up in a suit.

What I want, what I need,
what I yearn for, and adore…
is what I’m fighting for.

I don’t want to be told that I’m bossy
I don’t need that you tell me I’m smart
I just want to lie here by the water
While somebody dear to me speaks to my heart.

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