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Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist
I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.
My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.
I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
What I consider a challenge is to prove that I am worthy as Journey's new vocalist.
Richie Kotzen is such an unbelievable talent as a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
I can sing, but I never considered myself a powerhouse vocalist but more of a rock-pop singer.
I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
I've certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to.
I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.
Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.
As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
With 'A Million Miles,' I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.
Fortunately for me I'm a vocalist, I can sing forever. I'm not going to be pretty forever, but I'm going to sing forever!
Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.
I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.
I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.
It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.
The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't like vocalists, try guitar.
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed... the great vocalist chord and the way they make you feel.
My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.
I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.
Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.
In any event, I'm proud to wear the badge of jazz vocalist if that's what people want to call me; but at the same time, there are many other things I like to do.
I don't want to be New Vocalist of the Year; that's not a goal of mine. If those things come along, that would be awesome, but that's not something I strive for.
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'
I think it's great that these little various skills I have seem to add up to something, because I'm not the greatest pianist or the greatest vocalist or the greatest actor.
One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.
Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.
I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
Sometimes, a concept is needed to spark myself and the vocalist; sometimes a concept isn't necessary for that spark. It all depends on the moment, because I don't want to be that dude that every album has to be this story or that story.
My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady.
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!