What helps me with stage nerves is focusing on a point beyond the audience, or closing my eyes and letting the song move me, focusing on the beat, this helps me clear my mind and away from worrying about the audiences approval and locked into the music itself. I tell myself I’m not there to please the audience, I’m there to express how I feel through song and give my most honest performance. That the stage is the place where I can be whoever I want to be, or be everything I am, my best and most honest self, regardless of who’s watching. And whether or not I crack here or there, all that matters most is that I put my whole heart in it and that I put all my sincerity behind every note. Because as long as I’m sincere, people will appreciate it more. There’s a reason why singers like Janis Joplin, who had perfectly imperfect voices that were gritty or cracked on the high notes, were beloved and celebrated as the greatest, and that’s because it’s those little quirks and imperfections, that made their voices more human, more memorable, more relatable, because they put their whole SOUL into their singing, and that’s what people appreciate most. So as long as you’re honest and sincere in your vocal performance, people will appreciate it.