Word: vocalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even she admits it. "singers are a dime a dozen," says Toni Braxton. "And record companies have a dollar." So what makes vocalist Braxton, just 28 years old, so special? Why is her new album, Secrets, only her second, fighting it out for the top slot on the Billboard charts with such heavyweights as thrash-metal veterans Metallica...
...biggest disappointment in this crop of albums is Patti Smith's. In the '70s, with such albums as Horses, she merged insurgent, thoughtful poetry with heartfelt and jagged-edged rock 'n' roll. She's never been much of a vocalist--she has a croaky, flat voice--but the strength of her music came from what she was singing, not how she was singing it. Unfortunately, on her new album, Gone Again, words fail her. The album deals with issues of mortality (the word heaven pops up in three songs), but the endeavor is marred by one song, Summer Cannibals, which...
...over the next few weeks with three impressive neo-soul releases: seductive crooner Maxwell has an album just out called Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite; in early June singer-bassist Me'Shell NdegeOcello will come out with her second album, Peace Beyond Passion; and in July the wistfully named vocalist ambersunshower will release her debut CD, Walter T. Smith...
Musical performances will cover a wide range of tastes, including gospel opera, jazz, rap, blues and classical music. Some entertainers slated to perform at the conference are the company Opera/Columbus, country blues singer and musician John Jackson and violinist Nicole Cherry, accompanied by vocalist Edward McGhee...
...Harvard] recruits such fabulously virtuosic musicians and they have nowhere to practice their crafts," adds vocalist Amy B. Brown '97, a music and religion concentrator...