Word: contralto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career. A slightly dismayed murmur from those who had not heard her new album flowed across the words "Cyndi Lauper" as Wilson introduced the piece. The fear quickly turned into mellow groove, though, as audience members regretted questioning for even a second Wilson's class. Her slightly-lower-than-contralto changes the song completely, as does Sewell's light acoustic background and Plaxico's soothing base line...
...career. A slightly dismayed murmur from those who had not heard her new album flowed across the words "Cyndi Lauper" as Wilson introduced the piece. The fear quickly turned into mellow groove, though, as audience members regretted questioning for even a second Wilson's class. Her slightly-lower-than-contralto changes the song completely, as does Sewell's light acoustic background and Plaxico's soothing base line...
...nine bonus tracks, is an immortal testament to the power of absolute simplicity--and absolute conviction. Anderson needed no candy-coated angelic choirs or flossy orchestral arrangements to fill such noble songs of sorrow and hope as Deep River and Crucifixion with throbbing life. All it took was one contralto voice, deep-toned and devastatingly straightforward, accompanied in no-nonsense fashion by pianist Franz Rupp. Spirituals is the real right thing...
...Latin charts; she recently won a Grammy nomination; and she's working on her first English-language album. The fuss over Shakira is justified. On her latest CD she charges Latin pop with rock 'n' roll to thrilling effect. Even when her music gets loud, Shakira's vibrant contralto remains sweet and expressive. The album's title translates as "Where are the thieves?" Missing out on this collection would be at least a misdemeanor...
DIED. ALICE FAYE, 86, one of Hollywood's biggest late '30s and early '40s movie box-office draws; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Faye starred in Tinseltown's popular and lucrative cookie-cutter musicals and, with her distinctive contralto, introduced several songs that became pop standards, notably You'll Never Know in Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943). She was one of Irving Berlin's favorite singers. In 1945 she left her film career after Betty Grable supplanted her as Hollywood's favorite musical-comedy actress...