I used to sing during music at elementary school. I hated it. When I got to middle school, yeah, I chose cycles ( a different class each marking period- Computers, Spanish, Home economics, and wood shop).

I was never in a choir and I don't plan to be. I'm just not interested in singing.

I just graduated college last May and I spent the last 7 years in different choirs and I must say that the choral experience is definitely one of the best experiences out there if you are open to it. I have found nothing else that makes friends as quickly as choral singing and nothing that gives so much back in terms of memory development and opportunity. As a 1st Tenor in a semi-professional choir (if we had gotten paid I would have said professional) I worked daily with 11-15 other men, depending on the year, to blend our voices in a way that we would sound as if we were one voice and to do this we spent quite a lot of time together, at least 7 hours a week in rehearsal and quite a lot of time outside of it.

The rewards were immense. Many of my best friends come from that tenor section and from the rest of the choir as well. So do many of my best memories and quite a lot of travel. Thanks to my choral experience I have traveled and performed up and down both coasts of the United States, from the Maritime Provinces of Canada west to Winnipeg and through Iceland, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. I've been on National Public Television and National Public Radio and I did not major in music or vocal performance but rather History and Social Science. 

Choral singing is a lot of work if you want to do it well but it has always been more than worth it for me. I hope many of you will reconsider and that those of you in choral groups will keep up the good work and push yourselves even harder.

Yes I am in choir. In fact, my teacher tells me I'm one of the stronger performers. I always try to do at least one solo per year. There is one girl in my choir who actually told me to my face that she sings better than me. I wanted to laugh. Not trying to sound conceited or anything, but she can barely sing louder than a whisper.