Are You a Swifty?

Celine Dion had more voice talent than most all female singers but do not touch Edith Piaf or any great female singer because art ask for a soul or a daimon or poetry something which tylermunns call "art"...

Dion was all his life under the spell of the man who designed and coached her from 13 years old to adulthood and he became his husband. He litterally created her persona . She was for sure talented more than most female singer it is evident . But it is not enough. Piaf sung in the street to eat . We hear his soul not his broken voice.

Tylermunns is then right ... 😊

You can learn to sing better than most...

But you cannot fake "art" or deliver "art" as a gained net profit after working hard...

The great Marian Anderson the greatest singer i ever listened to with Maria Callas never studied really. She was black opera singer at a times where it was a bit hard to emerge. She could rival Billie Holiday any day. And sing Bach or Verdi and Schubert . You cannot learn to sing like her even with a perfect voice. Callas express so much emotions we do not even could say that she had talent or it is because she worked hard. The part that move us cannot be learned nor be fake...

Soul is the part not learned.

I am in love with Anderson or Callas being through the singing. It is more than music there .

by the way Callas can even rival Anderson in the lied and in the blues and gospel and in the jazz, she rival Anderson only in opera. This is why Anderson beat any singer on earth. Whose female singer can rival at the same time Elisabeth Scwarzkopf and Billie Holiday in their own repertoire ? Give me a name ...😁 Good luck...

By the way it is for me the most beautiful woman to ever live... 😊

There are tons of great artists that lack technical proficiency, either vocally or instrumentally.

Staying with a nonsarcastic and nonconfrontational tone: does this put you in the camp of those that maintain that Bob Dylan could not/can not sing?

And in the same tone: if someone cannot paint, can his or her paintings really be art?

I nominate Mary Fahl.

@roxy54 so true. Her voice, like Beth ortons, is powerful yet divisive. 

@immatthewj  I guess because his Melodies and his lyrics are so engaging. They're good enough I can Overlook his voice.

@botrytis  idk, there are plenty of artists in my Gen X generation who don't speak to me at all. I mean just about everyone I knew in college and an adulthood raved about Smashing Pumpkins and Violent Femmes and Dave Matthews and for me they are completely forgettable artists. Again, not taking away from their Artistry or influence but there's no connection at all.

I nominate Mary Fahl.

I had to do a Google to find out who she is.  I've heard of The October Project but I don't think I am familiar with anything they have done.  Her Reimagining The Dark Side Of The Moon sounds interesting.

But what are you nominating her for?