POWER YOUR VOICE, a premium business designed for high-net-worth individuals, luxury brands, founders, and investors, has become highly vocal in its desire to collaborate with Monaco-based clients and businesses.
Run by British entrepreneur CeCe Sammy-Lightfoot, 48, Power Your Voice offers private vocal development for individuals, strategic partnerships, or investment into scalable talent platforms.
For those looking to place capital behind people, performance, and influence, Power Your Voice provides both cultural value and commercial opportunity.
Born in Trinidad and raised in London, Sammy-Lightfoot has risen from a backing singer for Diana Ross to become an internationally-renowned voice coach working with contestants on Pop Idol, American Idol and America’s Got Talent, crossing the Atlantic multiple times to fulfil her commitments.
Her client portfolio includes globally recognised figures such as Paris Hilton and Dorothy Wang with Sammy-Lightfoot building an international footprint – collaborating in Dubai with Live Nation Middle East, and working in Georgia with acclaimed singer, rapper, and fellow-entrepreneur Bera Ivanishvili as well as in Los Angeles.
Now Sammy-Lightfoot is hoping to spread her wings into the Principality where she feels Power Your Voice can benefit both companies and individuals.
Says Sammy-Lightfoot: “Power Your Voice is an online platform offering practical vocal training and recovery tools to anyone from singers and speakers with voice strain or ebbing confidence, and teachers with voice burnout, or companies failing on customer communications.
“With this in mind,” she says, “I am looking for companies including hotels and wellness centres whose employees would definitely benefit from working with Power Your Voice in terms of their communication skills and their wellbeing. I am also hoping to link up with big brand names in Monaco.
“On the other side of the coin I am also seeking out high-net worth individuals wishing to invest in the Power Your Voice’s artist development programme.”
But although she’s on a high right now, things were oh so different in 2012.
It was then when she was in the US on a business trip to Las Vegas that Sammy-Lightfoot’s world was turned upside down when she suffered a brain aneurysm, which left her in a coma and fighting for life.
She was in her early thirties at the time running an international vocal coaching and artist development business, advising record labels, appearing regularly on TV, and raising a four-month-old daughter.
The diagnosis was devastating: a fully ruptured brain aneurysm. Doctors warned her family that even if she survived – and about 60 per cent of sufferers die within two weeks – she might never walk or speak again.
When Sammy-Lightfoot finally awoke from a coma, she couldn’t talk or function but recalls how her love of music aided and motivated her recovery.
Her sister, Athena, played Sammy-Lightfoot some of her favourite music, hoping to stimulate her brain.
“It worked,” says Sammy-Lightfoot. “An instinctive movement of my fingers, as if accompanying the music on the piano, convinced the doctors I was mending and persuaded them to unhook the life support machines.”
The slow and painful recovery also caused her to rethink her life course and reignite a passion she had long carried in the background of her meteoric career: supporting young people beyond performing, helping them to navigate pressure.
Her recuperation also persuaded her to return to the UK, where she channelled her experience into writing ‘If You Can Speak, You Can Sing’, a book originally aimed at teenagers that quickly reached a wider audience among teachers and schools.
She partnered with Speakers for Schools, donating books to state schools and running workshops focused on confidence, communication, and resilience, particularly for young people emerging from talent shows, many of whom struggled once the spotlight faded.
“Fame comes and goes,” she says. “If your identity is built on it, you’re in trouble.”
Today, Sammy-Lightfoot works not only with singers, but with business leaders, teachers, politicians, and students. She has been invited into Cambridge University, consulted at the highest levels of government, and advised professionals whose technical intelligence far outstrips their ability to communicate.
“The human voice is being lost,” she says. “And in an AI world, that’s dangerous.”