My Real Life

Today’s question comes from Jen.

Jen writes: Truthfully, who is your favorite singer, corny or not.

My favorite singer really varies with time, so I don’t have any one favorite singer.

Right now, I’m a sucker for Gavin DeGraw.

I’ve always liked his music when it’s come out and been current, but then I kinda forget about it and move on.

However, with Spotify, I just type in his name and I get to listen to all of his music, at once.

(A colleague of mine recently pondered the purpose of Spotify, beyond letting everyone know what you are listening to.  For me, the purpose of Spotify is for me to listen to all the music I want to, where I want to, for free.)

And so, I find myself listening to his stuff over and over again, and I realize just how much of his work I love.

In a broader sense, I like a lot of male singers.

There’s just something about the quality of their voices.

Very soulful.

I love to listen to Michael Buble, Harry Connick, Jr., Josh Groban.

I could listen to any of them all day, every day.

As for female singers, I appreciate people who have crisp, clear voices.

I realize that it might sound trite, these days, to use her as a favorite, but Whitney Houston singing a ballad, in her heyday, was unparalleled.

I could also listen to Celine Dion sing her ballads again and again and again.

I get goosebumps when she hits some of those high notes.

Or even when she’s singing “My Heart Will Go On” and she gets to that part where she kicks it up a step or two.

Shivers.

But, then I like a soulful woman’s voice, as well.

Adele is currently rocking my socks, and I love, love, love Fiona Apple (even though we don’t hear much from her anymore).

And yet, when Charlotte Church came out (the teenage opera singer from the UK a few years back…okay, probably more than a few, but time has lost any sort of meaning for me now that I’ve hit forty…as far as I’m concerned, everything happened yesterday) I wore out my CD.  Actually, it might have even been a cassette.  Don’t remember.  But I LOVED it.

Oh, and I am a huge fan of Mariah Carey when she was a new artist.

Her first album.

Kim can tell you.

So, those are the voices that move me.

A different question could have been, “What type of music do you listen to?” because while they sound similar, they are quite different indeed.

But, that’s for another day.

I am remiss…I rarely edit a post after it has gone live, but I’ve just been reminded of my other  BIG TIME vocal love.  Eddie Vedder.  Oooh Mama…something about that voice absolutely captivates me.  I could listen to Eddie Vedder and no one else for the rest of my life.  Love his stuff with Pearl Jam, and LOVE his solo stuff.  The soundtrack to “Into the Wild” is one of my favorite albums (is album even a thing anymore?) of all time.  So sorry, Eddie.  That’s what I get for writing a blog while watching Dancing with the Stars.  Thanks for the reminder, Angela.