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Subject: Re: Vocalist Topics (on imitating your favorite singers)
Date sent: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:55:19 PST
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>From: DANIaka007-at-aol.com
>
>In a message dated 1/28/00 3:53:09 PM !!!First Boot!!!, Mezzoid-at-aol.com
>writes:
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><< You are imitating people's enhanced sound, not their REAL sound. >>
>
>Does that mean that I'm trying redo something that isn't there? What does
>that mean for me then?
>Danielle

What that means is that it's OK to admire your favorite singers and learn
what you can from them. But don't try to IMITATE them. You have your own
special voice. Work on making the most of it.

To give you an example from my own life, I *love* Billie Holliday's singing,
and have collected a good many of her recordings, but any attempt for me to
*imitate* her would be pretty much doomed to failure. I don't have her
voice, and I don't have her life experiences (thank G*d).

Liz (who's old enough to have worn platform shoes the LAST time they were in
style)


Elizabeth Finkler
mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com

Consider the singular wisdom learned from animated sages like Bugs Bunny.
The irrepressible, Oscar-winning rabbit and his cartoon cohorts have taught
millions of American children precisely the sort of powerful, subversive
truths from which adults try to shield them: that smart-alecks have more
fun; that mocking authority is often the right thing to do; that tortoises
beat hares (especially when tortoises cheat); that the world is often a
cruel and desperate place that would just as soon drop an anvil on your head
as give you a hand up; and, most important of all, that a sense of humor and
resilience is the only way to make it through the years to come.
---Nick Gillespie


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