{"id":117841,"date":"2026-01-30T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117841\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:27:09","slug":"tina-siganporia-music-is-the-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117841\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Siganporia: Music Is the Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A soprano finds cathartic release sharing her vocal gift\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week we welcome Tina Siganporia, a New York City soprano who performs gospel, R&amp;B and musical theater. Tina sings with groups including Lavender Light Gospel Choir, The Black, and the People of All Colors Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir. While she doesn\u2019t qualify for many of those designations, she is welcomed as an ally. With Indian parents in an interreligious marriage, she was raised as a Parsi in the Zoroastrian faith, which is an ancient Persian religion. Professionally, she works as a psychology researcher, is earning a master\u2019s degree in mental health counseling at Brooklyn College and is on track to become a licensed therapist.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769812028_638_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tina says: \u201cI think the intersection between my work as an artist and my profession as a clinician is definitely something I want to keep exploring. As a person, I do feel more connected with my emotions when I\u2019m in song. I feel like there are things that I am saying that I am not able to articulate in words or everyday. When I sing, I really want to tell MY story, the true story of what I\u2019m dealing with or going through at that time. My mom has been chronically ill for years now and I\u2019ve been coping with it a lot the last year, especially \u2014 just coming to terms with my grief. At my last solo show, I went through the seasons of life or of the year \u2013Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, in that order. And my finale song, \u201cSometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,\u201d (a gospel spiritual with roots in Black soul music) allowed me to go musically to places I was unable to go while speaking with others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/03_tina.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27527\"  \/>Tina with Kenny Allan Smith\u2019s Peace &amp; Serenity gospel choir, receiving an award for 10 years with the group, 2024. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been through a lot of bad relationships, a lot of being lied to, or heartbreak, or feeling used. I realized a part of me was still angry about it. I decided to create a show depicting my past experiences but I wanted it to tell a more broad story, as so many women and so many people in general have been victims of terrible exes or terrible boyfriends \u2013 terrible men. The show became about dismantling the patriarchy, being against transphobia, homophobia and domestic violence in our society. It was called \u201cBoys Will be Boys \u2013\u00a0Held Accountable\u201d and was presented at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The show included around 10 other vocalists, dancers and spoken word artists, all sharing their own stories through their performances.\u00a0 I also sing around the city with Sing for Hope and other pianists. We perform at the painted pianos around the city and at the Oculus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769812029_750_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Check out more of Tina\u2019s work on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/night.tina.gale\/reels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soprano finds cathartic release sharing her vocal gift\u00a0 This week we welcome Tina Siganporia, a New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51936,45165,2538,9,24,56,63,65,64,51937,51938,51939],"class_list":["post-117841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-artist-of-the-week","tag-cabaret","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-soprano","tag-sopranos","tag-tina-siganporia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}