Give me your opinions on who has had a successful career without really having a good voice. Here are my picks: Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop, Johnny Rotten a.k.a. John Lydon, David Byrne and Lou Reed. Don't get me wrong I like all these guys and their music, but they still technically can't sing very good. Although the attitude they sing with makes up for this, and gives them character.
2007-05-23 08:52:09 · 8 answers · asked by Vinyleyes 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Johnny Cash
2007-05-23 09:07:38 · answer #1 · answered by BobbyD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the truth is that appeal, success, connecting... etc, as a singer has absolutely nothing to do with whether you can "technically" do it or not. The public could not give a flying moth about that... Some people could not loath Celine Dion more and she's superb when it comes to her technic.
You connect and reach people not with singing technique but with what you project from that unique place inside. That place that reveals your story, speaks of who you are and where you've been physically and where you are spiritually. Regardless of whether it's a ballad or punk rock...
It doesn't matter who you are, a music expert or a high school janitor in Killeen, Texas... at least I know it to be so for me. When that's happening, people take notice.
2007-05-23 09:11:37 · answer #2 · answered by thasaintamour 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First person that came to mind was Carlos Santana. A great musician that knew he never had much of a voice, so he just let the guitar do the singing for him.
Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, and Ozzy Osbourne are definitely contenders for your list as well. Jimi's voice was a bit rough, but he was a true master with his music. Bruce and Ozzy, however, have always been about the attitude and the enthusiasm, which carries their music rather well, compensating for their less than spectacular singing voices.
2007-05-23 09:03:41 · answer #3 · answered by Sarge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The be conscious 'genius' is over- and misused. The Beatles have been very gifted and helped to alter the face of pop and rock song on the two facets of the Atlantic. i do no longer think of i'm qualified to assert whether or no longer they have been 'geniuses'. Lennon (quite) and McCartney have been the two suited songwriters (I as quickly as heard one classical song commentator say that sometime the songs of the Beatles may be help in as severe esteem through fact the Lieder of Schubert - perhaps only somewhat over the suited). George Harrison became between the wonderful guitarists of his technology and Paul McCartney an spectacular bass participant (some thing frequently ignored). The jury's nevertheless out on Ringo and his drumming, i think of. As a 'classically-knowledgeable' musician I savour the skill of the Beatles' songwriting and the common of their musicianship, as nicely through fact the profound impression that they had on the song that went after them. Is that what you're after?
2016-10-13 05:48:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ian Dury just used to speak.
Madonna has a thin, reedy voice and sings out of tune but is a good business woman.
2007-05-23 08:59:53 · answer #5 · answered by the_emrod 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shane MacGowan from The Pogues.
2007-05-23 08:57:21 · answer #6 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bono...don't get me wrong...I love U2, but you know Bono really isn't that great of a vocalist. I agree on Lou Reed, and to go another way...Britney Spears.
2007-05-23 20:05:39 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Instantkarma♥♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bob Dylan is a big one for me. Also, almost everything popular on the radios right now.
2007-05-23 08:59:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋