Discovering serious sounds in singing

Serious sounds my passion

As you well know my job is also my passion. Every day I spend my time studying, looking for and teaching by always bringing to light for you novelties or reflections related to singing and voice.
Since 2003 my research has opened a lot towards the hemisphere of serious sounds, cultivating every day the possibility of understanding how to go down to the infers of my voice.
A serious voice in some ways captures, scares and moves our emotions.
Since I entered this world I have learned a lot, especially in managing the attack and dynamics of my sung sound, building useful tools of reflection to improve all my extension.
Today we begin this journey together to discover the serious feminine and male voices. Let's start with the jazz singer Hallbjörg Bjarnadótti , born in April 1915 in the Icelandic peninsula Snæfellsnes.
For many years he has spent his musical life wandering long and wide throughout the Europe of the North, bringing with his extremely serious voice a breath of novelties thanks to a decidedly not very feminine timbric approach. In this video taken from the famous American show I've Got a Secret we can listen to Hallbjörg's voice in the song Ol 'Man River in the lower version of Paul Robeson.

Let's move on to more "serious" sounds by Ken Turner the "frightening" bass of the Blackwood Brother in this fantastic interpretation of Rainbow of Love.

In the videos I posted previously were other times, at that time the singing could live on expressiveness and uniqueness.
So here is a paladin of the serious notes sung, he is called Tim Storms grown as low in the choral sector, currently his song and his voice are used in many other styles that are not purely linked to the chorus and musicality, for example lending Your voice for trailers, video games, advertising and much more.

I chose these interesting videos for you for you where you can listen to this great artist:

I close this article hoping to have made you intrigue and maybe reflect on your extension. As for me now after having cultivated years the research not only of acute sounds but also serious sounds, I allow myself to tell you that the exploration of these sounds gave me the opportunity to re-seeing myself in my nature and feeling something really The only one, to the point of that much of my concert "The Soundteller" is set up on the construction of sounds called "sub-amusement".

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