As Mariah Carey said when inducting Knight into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, "She's like a textbook to learn from. Nor was the depth of Burdon's pitch lost on Steven Tyler when he first heard Burdon sing "The House of the Rising Sun": "I thought, 'Aha! Sign Up. Sheryl Crow calls Stevie Nicks' voice a "combination of sheer vulnerability and power," and Courtney Love swoons over "that ridiculous beautiful tone." Christina Aguilera has had the finesse and power of a blues queen ever since she was a child star (she appeared on Star Search at age 11).
In 2001, Bob Dylan described the first time he heard her sing: "That just made my hair stand up, listening to that. "Other than Robert Plant, there's no singer in rock that even came close to Steve Perry," says Drawing inspiration from the most aggressively carnal moments of Mick Jagger, Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop's force-of-nature vocals with the Stooges invented the snarling style that came to define punk rock. "The beauty of B.B. American Idol Star & International Platinum-Selling Recording Artist, JASMINE TRIAS, with British Singing Sensation & Royal Command Performer, BEN STONE. Yoakam was a teenager the first time he heard "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" on Casey Kasem's Top 40 countdown: "I'd never heard anything like it," Yoakam says, referring to Nelson's warm, laid-back whine and impeccably casual tone. translation missing: en.BUTTON_SEARCH Dwight Yoakam calls Nelson "the most avant-garde country singer of all time." or. With his falsetto cries, rolled r's and warbling yodels, he pulled off lyrics few other singers could possibly have gotten away with, and he opened up possibilities for rockers who've followed him, from Oasis to Interpol. But his greatest performance could be "54-46 Was My Number," his defiant, deeply funky memory of a short stint in prison. He was absolutely confident and superbrave. It was as seductive as it was foreboding. Ben, Lead singer Ronnie on guitar and Josh.
"Wilson was able to hold that note until you felt it," says Burke. And Muddy's voice carries that whole song — there's no musical changes at all. "I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to," Stewart remembers. For Gregg Allman, all roads lead back to Ray Charles: "When I heard him, I was like, 'That's my goal in life,' " says Allman, who grew up mimicking the R&B records he heard in his segregated childhood hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida. Now that she's been around for 20 years, everyone forgets quite how extraordinary she is. "It was like all the body noises you make." "He is Solomon the Resonator," Tom Waits has said, "the golden voice of heart, wisdom, soul and experience." But technical skill alone doesn't make for hits, and Carey's radiant, sweetly sexy presence has been knocking them out of the park for two decades. Such self-deprecation is typical, but others hear her childlike quaver and soulful delivery as effervescent, joyful, heartbreaking — sometimes all in the same song.
A bow to their fans. It also doesn't hurt that, for me, he's up there as a songwriter alongside Lennon and McCartney, Dylan and Joni Mitchell — the best of the best." "Ultimately, I think James' voice reflects the man," says Crosby. If you really check Muddy Waters out in performances on tape, he's almost not even there. He puts his whole body and his whole energy into his voice. There was a gravity to his tone — with his shades, the suit — but there was also this impish, elfin quality, and you could hear it when he laughed, which he did a lot onstage because he enjoyed playing so much.
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They were Kentucky guys with beautiful, perfect-pitch harmonies and great diction. "She gave us permission to bring a whole new level of strength and intelligence," Smith says. He can pop in for sensitive moments, such as in between Manuel's vocals in "Whispering Pines." "She can sound like a beautiful angel — or she can make it sound like she's gargling glass.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Her mastery of melisma, the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs like "Vision of Love," inspired the entire American Idol vocal school, for better or worse, and virtually every other female R&B singer since the Nineties. 'Tom Waits' voice "has the smoothness of Barry White, but the raspiness of a mountain lion," says hip-hop producer RZA.