"If you just sing words, or the notes, it has nothing, it's flat. And why do it then? You've got to step beyond yourself into the world of the story."

Everybody can sing, says Morrison, who has taught people how to sing for over 15 years.

"I guess there are a small per cent that are physically born with an inability to pick it up. But I really can't see it."

Morrison teaches music at Range Lake North school and private classes to "a real mix" of students on the weekend.

She has trained doctors, lawyers, nurses and musical theatre performers who want to increase their range and live their musical dreams.

"A lot of them say, 'I have always wanted to do this,'" Morrison says.

But singing in public can be nerve-wracking. Even Morrison admits she gets butterflies on stage.

"You get vocally undressed on stage," Morrison says with a laugh that, coming from her, has a musical lilt to it.

"There you are. 'Here's my voice. This is it.' It's a really personal expression. Singing expresses something in us that words cannot."