28-10-11, 07:44 PM
* the following is a rant.
She has range and technical but no individual quality, just pop RnB like all the others.... all sound the same, yawn.
Great singers cannot be imitated, they have a unique quality of tone, intonation and timbre, sometimes because of the shape of their gob or some kind of speech impedement, but unique such as Aretha, Mavis Staples, Amy Wineshop, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald. ALICE RUSSELL now she can sing! and she's local
She has range and technical but no individual quality, just pop RnB like all the others.... all sound the same, yawn.
Great singers cannot be imitated, they have a unique quality of tone, intonation and timbre, sometimes because of the shape of their gob or some kind of speech impedement, but unique such as Aretha, Mavis Staples, Amy Wineshop, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald. ALICE RUSSELL now she can sing! and she's local

