Word: vocalisms
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...Twain's vocal talent was discovered when she was 4 and still called by her birth name, Eilleen. "I was singing along with the jukebox in a diner," she recalls. "These guys heard and asked my mom if I could sing louder. She put me up on the countertop, and from that moment on, she was convinced I was going to be a little performer." In need of cash, Sharon booked Twain in front of every open microphone in northern Ontario. If there were no talent shows or telethons, Sharon was not above hauling Twain...
...Mutt's got absolutely no shame about being a commercial record producer," says Joe Elliot, lead singer of Def Leppard. Lange produced Def Leppard's 12 million--selling arena-rock classic, Hysteria, but his commercial sound works in almost any genre. His favorite trick is to pile layers of vocal takes--sometimes several dozen--on top of one another, giving his singers a lush, smooth sound. Then Lange uses key changes, drum fills, cowbells, chants, effects and spoken interludes to keep the listener's attention. These devices make Lange's music particularly popular with radio programmers; research shows that...
...some of the most vocal advocates of residency, he said, were students who spoke before the committee...
Other Christians, like Grizzle, have been more vocal, pointing to Lurie’s penchant for making fun of Christianity (his website cites evangelical Christians as his “favorite group to mock”) as a reason to believe he is anti-Christian...
...they weren't likely to succeed. Following the defeat in the Bundesrat, the legislation was sent to a mediation committee where it was approved unchanged. It will be voted on again in the lower house, in which Schröder has an absolute majority. Big business has been a vocal critic of Schröder ever since he started hinting that higher taxes are necessary. "We are on the wrong path," says Ulrich Schumacher, ceo of chip maker Infineon. "I do not know anyone who is not worried." Ludwig Georg Braun, president of the Association of Chambers of Commerce...