This is inspired by some comments on another thread. Share your teacher tributes here. Nanette Natal was my singing teacher from about 1983-87. I think she was the best teacher I ever had, for anything. In fact, it was Nanette who inspired me to start teaching creative writing. After I started working on performance pieces with Elliott Sharp, I decided I wanted to write some songs, and sing them. But I had no singing background, and I didn't want to embarrass myself, so I looked in the V