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Ron Obvious
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July 11, 2016
This message was not deleted by anyone.
Though perhaps it should have been.
Neither was it kicked or recommended, and for good reason.
July 5, 2016
Big disconnect between the singer and the voice
Do you visualise the singer when you hear a song for the first time? I do, and I'm often spectacularly off the mark when I later actually see what they really look like.
The prime example of this category is, of course, Amy Winehouse, a twenty-something Welsh girl who sang with the voice of a 50-year old black woman from the Mississippi delta.
Here's another example:
I like this song, but I pictured the singer as a big, bearded, biker-type who rolls his own cigarettes. Imagine my surprise to hear that voice coming out of a 22 year-old beardless boy:
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