Ms. Luffey grew up immersed in the dental and medical fields. While pursuing a career as a professional opera singer, she found the world of myology and has since used her unique set of skills and insights to bridge new ideas between the two worlds.

Ms. Luffey’s extensive practical education includes being trained by the world’s top myo, dental/ortho, and tongue tie experts, authors, and educationalists including Dr. Soroush Zaghi, Dr. Richard Baxter, Dr. Micheal Gelb & associates, Sanda Valcu-Pinkerton, and Sandra Coulson among others. Her expertise and work has even been featured directly in Dr. Baxter’s blog (read the full article here: https://tonguetieal.com/can-tongue-tie-impact-singing-and-vocal-quality/).

In the professional music community, Ms. Luffey has performed many of the opera world’s most well-known and loved leading women both nationally and internationally including: Leonore, Fidelio; Tatyana, Eugene Onegin; Fiordiligi, Cosi fan tutte, Alice in Falstaff, Musetta in La Bohème, Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, and Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, among others. She has won or placed in the Finals of numerous national competitions including: Delta Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Harold Haugh Comic Opera Competition, Orpheus Vocal Competition, Charleston Symphony Orchestra Competition, NATS National Student Auditions, and has been a consecutive Semi-Finalist and Finalist in numerous other national competitions. (View Ms. Luffey’s professional page here: www.jessicaluffeysoprano.com)

With over twelve years of specialization in multiple disciplines such as advanced breathing and muscular isolation techniques, she especially enjoys working closely with professional musicians to facilitate and maintain healthy oral and pharyngal-cavity shape and advanced tongue training for easy and natural production and technique. 

Ms. Luffey holds a CSOM from the Graduate School of Breathing Sciences and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance, and is a current member of the Voice Foundation.