Deborah Torres Patel is widely known as Asia’s Leading Voice & Presentation Coach and expert trainer on Singapore Channel 5’s "Villa Wellness" reality programme and guest star on “Spirit of Service”.

She has performed for millions of people live, on radio, TV, and global theatrical stages & speaking platforms since she began her career singing, dancing and acting professionally at age 4.

With over 43 years experience presenting and 21 years teaching tens of thousands of people, Deborah is a one-of-a-kind energetic teacher, speaker, trainer and coach.

During her music performance career, Deborah worked as an opening act for legendary entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr., Milton Berle, Whitney Houston, Kool & the Gang, the Four Tops, Herbie Hancock and shared the stage with the Platters, Michael Jackson and many more celebrities in music, acting & dance worlds.

She also worked with Broadway Theater and film directors such as Martin Charnin “Annie”, Pat Birch “Grease”, Mercedes Ellington “Sophisticated Ladies” and Rob Marshall “Chicago” & “Memoirs of a Geisha”.

Deborah’s animated short film voice-overs have been awarded at 16 Film Festivals including Sundance, New York, San Francisco, San Antonio, and Berlin Film Festivals.

Educated at Carnegie Mellon University and Boston Conservatory of Music in the USA she holds degrees in Drama, Dance and Voice. She taught at UCLA (Los Angeles), Los Angeles Unified School District, National University of Singapore (NUS) and (NTU) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is currently on the faculty of Asia Spa Institute (ASI) and Nanyang Polytechnic's Singapore Institute of Retail Studies (SIRS).

For more than 21 years Deborah has worked in over 65 countries teaching personal and professional clients to speak, sing, and communicate with more confidence and full self-expression using a unique 5-part training series she created called Expressing You! ®

Expressing You! ® gets to the core of communication working from the inside out and is built on the fundamentals of breathing, posture, releasing physical tension, and maintaining vocal fitness, physical health and emotional wellness and clearing.

Using different modalities from ancient wisdom to modern accelerated learning techniques, her work is a holistic approach to total and authentic expression empowering people to step up to their next stage in life, whatever that may be.

The top 3 reported benefits of Expressing You! ® are confidence, empowerment and liberation.

As a mother she is passionate about parenting and designs and delivers educational multimedia content and programs for pregnant women, mothers, and children ages 0-7 years old.

Deborah’s popular articles and interviews have been featured in more than 15,000 online and offline publications. She authored a multimedia training program called Presentation Power.

In 2006, she was named one of the Top 10 Coaches in Asia in and featured in the book “Awesome Coaching - Strategies & Techniques for Impacting the Workplace”.

Deborah is a founding member, past Director of Education for Asia Professional Speakers Association - Singapore. She is a long standing member of Actor’s Equity Association and Screen Actor’s Guild in the USA as well as the National Association of Teacher’s of Singing.

Her distinguished client list includes Walt E. Disney Co., Time Warner, IBM, MediaCorp Channel 5 Singapore, TV3 Malaysia, Dumex/East Asiatic Corporation, Burson-Marsteller, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hutchison Whampoa and Hutchison Swire Companies.