Click on the headings on this page and you will be able to read articles about singing as a source of life-time good health. In my view listening is great but nothing can beat actually doing the singing. The physicality of it: loosening the tongue, releasing the lower abdominal muscles and making a noise which is pure self-expression. All this is essential to being alive, to being human! DO IT!!

Singing 'rewires' damaged brain - from the BBC
 
The Benefits of Singing from Heart Research UK

Brian Eno - Why I believe in Singing

Why Singing is Good For You - from the Daily Telegraph

"We have suggested that singing education should be incorporated into the professional training of caregivers and nursing students"

Götell, E., Brown, S. & Ekman, S-L.
International Journal of Nursing Studies (2009)