Martin soon found her calling not as a pop diva, but as a voice teacher, founding the Vocal Workout Singing school in 2001.

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Marie Knight first realized her vocal gifts while singing in church as a young girl.

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"Albatross" finds Goreas taking the vocal spotlight, singing sweetly while accompanied by insular, shoegaze-tinged fuzz.

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Epic singers are distinguished by their prodigious memory and performance skills, combining singing, vocal improvisation and musical composition coupled with theatrical elements.

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Opera from any era is essentially a vocal art form: the singing of arias, duets, ensembles, and choruses.

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The influence of Serge Gainsbourg is audible in the opulent sonic textures, in the cheeky wordplay of Leon's French lyrics and, especially, in his whispery talk-singing a vocal style pioneered by Gainsbourg that gives every song the feel of a slightly scandalous confession.

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It involves a degree of variation and improvisation in both vocal parts but always ends with two performers singing in unison or an octave apart.

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The narrator seems to be a veteran of war, and Waits gives the song his stereotypical Waits treatment, singing as though he had no vocal cords but plenty of nodes.

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"Tahrir, " an ornamented singing style that resembles yodeling, gave the vocal parts an intriguingly Eastern flavor while still sounding like Western opera, and emphasized the uncertainty and anguish of the arias.

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She says surgery for vocal-cord nodules left scar tissue that prevents her from singing.

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