Giacomo Lauri-Volpi singing "A te o cara" from Bellini's I Puritani. His top swells into a theater-filling wave of squillo. | Opera Vivrà

Bananas! No Air Through Vocal Cords? The Science of Singing vs. the Myths The voice world is full of strange teachings… but some go beyond absurd. There is now a dangerous idea circulating that we should sing with no air passing through the vocal cords, and that somehow, the vibration magically happens without airflow. In this short, I show (with humor) how this belief is not only false, it is physically impossible. Any sound created by the human voice happens because air passes through the voca