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I cannot sing, but if I could I would love to sound like Barbara Bonney circa 1995  How about you? If you CAN sing, who do you sound like? (Or aspire to ?) x Jan x ps Yes, I know they say everyone has a voice, but I disprove that theory ! I went for lessons once and she made lots of excuses not to have me after about 4 !! |
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« Reply #1 on: 12:43:07, 25-06-2007 » |
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I can't sing either, but if I could:
Billie Holiday.
Or if it has to be a man, either Frank Sinatra or Elvis Costello.
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« Reply #2 on: 12:54:38, 25-06-2007 » |
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I can (or could) sing up to a point. I would like to sound like Emma Kirkby, but I don't  . |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #3 on: 12:55:48, 25-06-2007 » |
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If I could sing I'd like to sound like both Emma Kirkby and Ella Fitzgerald.  Not both at the same time of course. I have sung all my life and have up till quite recently had classical singing lessons but I'm afraid I sound like nobody you've ever heard. Course it would help if I could actually breathe at the same time, but it's something I have persistently failed to get to grips with.  |
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Janthefan
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« Reply #4 on: 13:27:42, 25-06-2007 » |
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If I was a man it would be Mark Padmore...(..swoon!)   |
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« Reply #5 on: 13:32:11, 25-06-2007 » |
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I wouldn't mind being able to sing like Annie Lennox actually. I think she's amazing. Also Alison Moyet. I sound more like Kate Bush.  I'm a big fan of Kate for precisely that reason..... If I were a man, then it would have to be Maldwyn Davies. |
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« Reply #6 on: 13:40:18, 25-06-2007 » |
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I do sing a bit. Not seriously of course  I might be less gloomy if I sang more, but I have to be in the mood to sing. Oddly enough, I was reading a comment in Opera News a few days ago, by Robert Lloyd, who said that it took him many years to realize that a well-intended suggestion by a vocal teacher that he try to sing like D. Fischer-Dieskau took him completely up a cul-de-sac. Perhaps, the cherry-picking advice of Michael Caine to an acting masterclass still holds good: don't be afraid to "steal", but only steal from the best.  |
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« Reply #7 on: 13:45:32, 25-06-2007 » |
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As we are on this site, I really should agree with Janthefan and say I would like to sound like Mark Padmore. But in my heart of hearts, I'd really like to sound like Sam Cooke.
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« Reply #8 on: 14:57:15, 25-06-2007 » |
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I wouldn't mind sounding like Elizabeth Watts, who won the Rosenblatt Song Prize at Cardiff this year. If I were a man (and I'm glad I'm not!), I too would opt for Mark Padmore. I would love to be that sort of tenor. It must be brilliant as well to be a tenor if you are merely a humble choir singer, as I was - everybody wants you, and the competition at auditions is much less than for basses or women.
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« Reply #9 on: 15:10:32, 25-06-2007 » |
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IF I could sing... Michael Chance. Yes, you guessed it, I'm one of those strange creatures however, given my habit of singing descants meant for "the toppers" (but only when there are lots of them to cover me up ), I fear the resulting sound is more resembling / resemblant? - ah yes reminiscent of this: 
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« Reply #10 on: 15:39:12, 25-06-2007 » |
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If I could sing, I'd liove to sound like Dmitri Horovotsky. Sadly, I sound like Luciano Pavarotti. Tommo PS It's really Rex Harrison |
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #11 on: 15:48:41, 25-06-2007 » |
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I'd really like to sound like Sam Cooke.
A change is gonna come? |
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« Reply #12 on: 16:31:23, 25-06-2007 » |
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I'd really like to sound like Sam Cooke.
A change is gonna come? That's the one ! |
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« Reply #13 on: 16:55:57, 25-06-2007 » |
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Bobby -
There is a difference between who I would like to sound like, and who I would like to look like. Sam Cooke was one of the most handsome men ever to record a record...
To be honest a bit of me would like to sound like a formidable contralto, and as the Clara Butt style is completely out of favour, it had better be Marilyn Horne. If a counter tenor, Andreas Scholl. If a tenor I suppose Juan Diego Florez, but distinctive though his voice is, I fear I am being influenced by his Peruvian good looks.
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« Reply #14 on: 18:53:51, 25-06-2007 » |
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I like to 'sing' romantic and jazz tunes from the 1930's and although I admire Bing Crosby from that era I like to try and sing in the style of my favourite crooner Al Bowlly who was also popular in UK and USA at that time. I have a huge collection of his records. I've posted several lyrics from his records in the lyrics thread. John W |
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