Even at age 60, her performances remain tour de force affairs that fling the Galás voice around in wicked wars between the Devil, God and all we wretched victims caught in the middle. It remains a terrifying work, one that established Galás as a troubling, troublesome singer of “homicidal love songs” who boasted a multi-octave voice of ungodly power and technical prowess. Recorded in a freezing basement studio in London after Galás had been awake for 24 hours, Litanies is a glossolalic galaxy further perverted by fiendish floods of spatial delay, complex signal processing and overdubbing. This Greek-American singer-pianist-provocateur made her solo recording debut in 1982 with The Litanies of Satan, a bloodcurdling blast of screaming, spitting sonority based on texts by poet Charles Baudelaire. Sure, she’s probably overdone it with the melisma more than a few times, but her influence on current greats like Ariana Grande shows how Carey has helped to lay the foundation for contemporary R&B and beyond. With her multi-octave range and impressive versatility, she's been able to modulate between big-and-brassy and breathlessly fragile modes (sometimes in a single tune), and of course there's that “whistle register” that lets her float into the highest heavens.
But in the end, her enduring legacy has everything to do with her voice. When she first swooped audiences away back in the early ’90s, she was young and beautiful and could also hang with the boys, trading verses with the likes of Boyz II Men and even, at one point, Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Mariah Carey is the quintessential pop diva. Even well into his 60s, almost right up until his death, his voice - and stage mannerisms - carried far into the cheap seats. But he also anchored his delivery with a sense of serious gravitas, which dignified such over-the-top lyrics as “Love can be seen as the answer/But nobody bleeds for the dancer” - verses that would have fallen flat in lesser hands. Whether he was singing about the “Man on the Silver Mountain” with Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, revitalizing Black Sabbath in the wake of Ozzy Osbourne’s departure or flying solo on classics like “Holy Diver,” Dio’s voice soared with an operatic grandiosity that matched the often fanciful nature of his fantasy-themed lyrics.
Ronnie James Dio was the voice of heavy-metal thunder for four decades. Weekly's picks for the 20 greatest singers of all time, in any genre. Is Axl Rose really a better singer than Frank Sinatra? Are there really four R&B singers more talented than the greatest opera soprano of all time? Probably not, but ranking them and arguing about those rankings is half the fun. We also inevitably got subjective, and compared apples to oranges. In compiling this list of our favorite singers, we looked beyond range, technique and pitch to consider other factors: expressiveness, phrasing, originality, showmanship - and, let's be honest, how much fun they are to imitate at karaoke. Great singers convey a world of emotion in a single note, turn simple melodies into symphonies and imbue the most straightforward lyrics (think of Aretha's “Baby, I love you”) with the depth of a Russian novel. Made with iPod in mind! Want karaoke on your iPod? kJams is for you! Export karaoke in QuickTime format for easy transfer to your iPod.They've yet to invent the musical instrument that can move us more than the human voice.
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