The best singing artist in the history of recorded music

Started by Martinus, September 04, 2011, 12:14:35 PM

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Martinus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZRssq7UlM

'nuff said.

Move over Lady Gaga or Madonna.  :bowler:

Edit: There is no particular reason for this thread, other than to share some beauty in the world that many recently here feel to be shitty.

Eddie Teach

So is this the thread where you pretend to be a sophisticate instead of a twinkybopper-at-heart?  :P
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The Brain

Don't care much for opera singing. I prefer voices that sound like voices and not like instruments.
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The Brain

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Lucidor

Of the classical singers, I like Emma Kirkby and Joan Sutherland a lot.

grumbler

Quote from: Slargos on September 04, 2011, 02:29:26 PM
No.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_R7CBmDAE

And she's barely out of her teens.
Very good voice control, but not as good as the artist whose song she is covering.  When you are the second-best at a given song, you aren't the best singing artist in the history of recorded music.

You are right that she could get here, though.
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