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YES. I am a jazz singer, and my music and voice teachers always taught me to think of myself as a "musician". My voice is my "instrument". In order to sing jazz well, I had to study music theory and harmony and techniques to master just like an instrumentalist does. The interesting thing is, most instrumentalists also use their voices to some extent when studying ear training or when composing and improvising.

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