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Powerful vocal recommendations

post #1 of 14
8/11/08 at 1:21am
Thread Starter 
Hey all,
I'm listening to Josh Groban right now (more popular than I usually dally in, sure), and I'm wondering if there are artists similar to him who exhibit the same powerful vocal qualities.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!
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post #2 of 14
12/7/09 at 4:08am
Andrea Bocelli comes to mind
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post #3 of 14
12/7/09 at 4:09am
Jeff Buckley! Check him out...I think he had something crazy like an 8 octave vocal range. Could be totally wrong there, haha...I just know he was damn good.
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post #4 of 14
12/7/09 at 7:20pm
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Originally Posted by fault/fracture View Post
Jeff Buckley! Check him out...I think he had something crazy like an 8 octave vocal range. Could be totally wrong there, haha...I just know he was damn good.
Check out his father, Tim Buckley, too. He was the one with the 8 octave range. Early stuff was folky. Middle stuff (Lorca, and especially Starsailor) was almost free jazz and takes a little getting used to, but is really genius. Later stuff was funk.

But do check out Jeff's stuff.

- Ed
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post #5 of 14
12/7/09 at 8:04pm
Males only? If not, here's my chance to plug the late mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Her records are gorgeous.
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post #6 of 14
12/7/09 at 8:10pm
Andrea Bocelli
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post #7 of 14
12/7/09 at 9:04pm
I would never consider Josh Groban or Andrea Bocelli as having powerful voices. Try Franco Corelli instead.
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post #8 of 14
12/7/09 at 9:55pm
Thread Starter 
Having completely forgotten about making this thread back in '08, I was pleasantly surprised to see these recommendations. I've gotten into Jeff Buckley's stuff, and he does have a great voice. I look forward to trying Tim Buckley as well. Andrea Bocelli is well known to me at this point (having discovered some of his work after posting this request), and I look forward to finding some stuff by Franco Corelli as well.

Thanks again guys and keep it up if you have more ideas!
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post #9 of 14
12/8/09 at 12:52am
Andy Williams

Tennessee Ernie Ford

The Fairfield Four

Lead Belly
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post #10 of 14
12/12/09 at 6:24pm
I think the most powerful vocalists are classically trained, not pop vocalists. I'm not sure you could compare Jeff Buckley to someone like Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Find a copy of Fischer-Dieskau's recording of Schubert's Schwanengesang (EMI), with a simple piano accompaniment. It's my reference recording for the male voice.
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post #11 of 14
12/12/09 at 10:26pm
Male vocalists? For something completely different, and I mean that in every sense of the word, try Rufus Wainwright.

And you can compare him to Jeff Buckley directly, since both have done covers of Hallelujah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelu...ard_Cohen_song)
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post #12 of 14
12/12/09 at 11:10pm
Symphonic Metal groups. Within Temptation.
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post #13 of 14
1/14/10 at 7:20pm
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Originally Posted by zotjen View Post
I would never consider Josh Groban or Andrea Bocelli as having powerful voices. Try Franco Corelli instead.
Bingo. Groban and Bocelli bridge the gap between pop and classical, but can't project onstage without a mic. Franco Corelli has one of the biggest dramatic tenor voices you will ever hear, and a high C to die for. Maybe not the most beautiful voice, but certainly the most thrilling. Of course it's not really fair to compare crossover artists to pure operatic artists, so maybe you would like someone like Mario Lanza, who dabbled in Hollywood musicals, but could still knock your socks off with his powerful, albeit overemotional, operatic interpretations.
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post #14 of 14
1/15/10 at 7:35am
also,some power metal vocalists have really great capabilities and also reminds of opera singing. they can get pretty high without dropping a note.
I don't think this is exactly what you meant...so I won't give any recommendations,just felt like posting here
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