Yes, he's indeed a very pathetic vocalist!
Not to mention the plain compositions he "sings" on.
Far from giving in to revisionism, I guess his ethnical background
unfortunately
gives him an unwarranted credit boost in this day and age. History has its
back-and forths, it must be the toll to pay after three centuries of violent
western domination...
Take a look at all the junk Hiphop glutting the pop market...
What a sham of a tribute to pay to Louis Amstrong, Charlie Parker, Ray
Charles and Stevie Wonder! What a stealth of dignity for the communities
they embodied!
As if "grooving" to a void syncopated sixteen-note drum pattern was the sole
genetically inherited prerogative of non western folks, and as such
forcefully practising it a token of cosmopolitan modernity!
Well, to media visually conditionned youths, seems that music is everything
but music...
Let them buy multicoloured Benneton jumpers instead!
Bart
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