Gary Catona has taught many of the most successful singers and entertainers in the world, including stars such as Whitney Houston, Sade, Andrea Bocelli, Usher, Seal, Shakira, Babyface, Lenny Kravitz, Brian Wilson, Johnny Mathis, Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton, Annie Lennox, Kevin Spacey, Robin Thicke, Lionel Richie, Robben Ford, Shirley Mac Laine, and Liza Minnelli.

As a gifted teenage vocalist from Philadelphia, Catona dreamed of becoming an opera singer. His inspiration was another native from Philadelphia—the late, great Mario Lanza, who had died in 1959.

Catona began studying singing in earnest, but ultimately was dissatisfied with the results. After working with 14 different singing coaches, he decided to discontinue formal voice study and to discover on his own how to improve his voice. He began doing research into the anatomy of the voice and into exercise physiology, and discovered the importance of voice muscles to singing. He also took note of the ideas of another of his idols—legendary tenor, Enrico Caruso, who, in his writings about vocal technique, referred to the muscles of the throat and recommended that singers “sing well back in the throat”—ideas that conflicted radically with what his teachers had taught. In fact, all his teachers taught to sing forward “in the mask” and to avoid the throat all together.

"I concluded that behind a great voice is a muscular voice," said Catona, "and that vocal athleticism should be the goal of vocal study. I then began experimenting with exercise strategies and finally found one ideally suited to the voice muscles—isokinetics; this requires placing maximum resistance to muscles when putting them through their full range of uniform motion.”

Based on his new understanding about the importance of voice muscles and exercise to vocal development, Catona put the whole process of "voice building" on a systematic basis. In Catona's words, "I developed and refined a voice building system that is both old and new.

It derives, in part, from an old Italian tradition of opera singing, as well as from modern ideas of exercise physiology. I have refined my voice building system to the point that this process can build power, range, richness into anyone's singing voice—men and women, boys and girls—quickly and dramatically."

Catona's groundbreaking “voice building system” has been the subject of numerous articles worldwide, and his work with some of the world's most famous singers was featured on Hollywood's top show for entertainment — "Entertainment Tonight." His goal to make his voice building system available to the general public and in so doing to help lovers of the human voice rediscover its fully realized power and glory.

Catona holds a master’s degree in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and works out of Los Angeles, California.

Shirley MacLaine
"Gary's Voice Building System is a miracle to me. Gary's technique opens the throat and the result is a singing and speaking voice with astonishing power, range, resonance and endurance."

Liza Minnelli
"It's simple - the results are fast and dramatic - end of story."

Seal
"Gary gave me power, control, range, and endurance that is truly astonishing."

Andrea Bocelli
"I can already hear my voice getting stronger, bigger."

Babyface
"Gary's system works and when something works you should tell people about it."

Jack Klugman
"Gary gave me my voice back-against all the odds - I have my life back and I am eternally indebted to him."

Larry Carlton
"Gary Catona gave me my voice back after a bullet wound to the throat took it away - to me and to my doctors, this was almost a miracle. I can only thank Gary from the bottom of my heart."