He uses their studio time to focus on the details of presentation, such as how to sing specific syllables and when to release or hold a breath.

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With an easy sensuality, Jones found the seam between pop and jazz, writing songs that sound as if she grew up immersed in the canon and knows how to sing a gentle version of it.

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Guitarist the Edge really knows how to make his talent sing.

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She sashayed up to him one night in St Louis in 1957, Anna Mae Bullock as she was then, just 18 with a wild, wide mouth and incredible legs, and took the mike away from him to show how she could sing.

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And more important, how can she sing her own thoughts as opposed to lyrics that he's written?

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This very magazine creates a list each year of how many tens of millions people get for being able to sing, dance or talk to a TV camera.

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But in every episode, no matter how bright or dim their future as a band looks, Bret and Jemaine always have a song to sing that goes along with what they are facing.

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