Can a person learn to sing?

Question

Do you have to be born with natural talent, or is it something you can accomplish with practice, lessons etc?

Answer 1

It can go both ways. A friend of mine who doesn't have a natural ability to sing is taking lesssons (opera) and after a year she was really good. It's all in the practice if you're not born with it.

Answer 2

You can be born with natural talent

And it is also something you can practice

Answer 3

Natural talent certainly helps, but I know many people who had fairly mediocre voices yet, after excellent voice training, sang beautifully.

Lessons will instruct you on how to use your voice, which is a marvelous instrument. You'll learn about breath control, diction, tone quality - all kinds of things important in producing a great sound.

If you're asking about having a great natural voice because you want to become a professional musician, the best person to advise you is a professional singer and teacher.

As long as you don't have a "tin ear" - as long as you can distinguish pitches - I think you'll be fine.