Recent research has shown that singing has a wide variety of health benefits.
From your brain to your heart, the benefits are plentiful, from helping you to fight disease, and even suppress pain.
According to Alex Street, a researcher at Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, who studies how music can be used to help children and adults recover from brain injuries, this is a scientific fact.
"Singing is a cognitive, physical, emotional and social act", Street said.
Such positives have seen singing aiding people's heart rate and blood pressure, while singing in groups or choirs, even boosting one's immune function in which listening to music cannot reach.
This also carries so many different explanations for this. From a biological perspective, singing can help to activate the vagus nerve, located by the vocal chords and muscles at the back of the throat. Singing involved controlled exhalation, releasing endorphins associated with wellbeing, pleasure and suppression of pain or trauma.
A network of neurons on both sides the brain, cause regions to deal with language, emotion and movement to light up. This and the focus on breathing which is required for singing, can provide an effective stress reliever.
Speaking about this, Alex Street has said "The 'feel good' responses become clear in the brighter sounding voices, facial expressions, and postures".
According to anthropologists, they believe that our hominid ancestors used to sing before they could speak, as a way of vocalising to mimic the sounds of nature or express feelings. This has also played a key role in developing complex social dynamics, emotional expression and rituals.
For this, Street says that it is no accident that singing has become a part of every person's life, whether musically talented or not. He noted that our brains and bodies are attuned from birth as a way of responding in positive ways to song.
"Lullabies are sung to children, and then songs are sung at funerals", Street added. "We learn our times tables through chanting, and our ABCs through the rhythmic and melodic structure".
Back in October, another study showed that singing classes have been successful in helping new mothers who have been suffering with postnatal depression. More on this from Nova here.
