On Banks' "Mother Earth," for example, every pluck of a guitar string is crystal clear and identifiable, but the singer's vocals lack their natural huskiness, and high notes seem to jump out from the backing track.
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Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease Gonna make a sentimental journey To renew old memories … His voice started out a bit tremulous and unsure, but gathered strength as the song progressed, with some vibrato and huskiness adding depth to the words, as if he were living them in real time.
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Written and released after some big personal changes, her already wonderfully distinctive sound has transitioned again. Single "Ain't No Little Girl" is gratifyingly dramatic, rattling with a huskiness that mixes Sia and Martha Wainwright." Giuffre also praised "the gorgeous, tight harmonies of "Jonestown", the rumbling of "Dragonfly" and sliding melancholy of "Annabelle".
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" Shyam Benegal, who directed her in two movies, believes she is "a director's actress". M.L. Dhawan from The Tribune wrote, "Rekha's flowering as an actress post Ghar and Khubsoorat climaxed in [...] Umrao Jaan. As a tragic courtesan she gave a performance of quality artistry, adopting a much-admired huskiness and despondency of tone. Rekha communicated much with a delicately raised eyebrow.
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Braxton has been recognized for her distinctive contralto voice. Her voice has been called "husky, sultry, elegant and sexy." Due to the huskiness of her voice, Braxton often used male singers such as Michael McDonald, Luther Vandross and Stevie Wonder as vocal style models. Chaka Khan and Anita Baker were two of the few female singers that she could stylize.
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Ghoshal on the sets of Indian Idol Junior, 2013 Ghoshal has performed songs with a lower vocal range. However, Metro Times calls her voice a "sweet and smokey soprano". Her voice has been described as "sweet" with "slight huskiness". In an interview, Ghoshal noted that her voice has transformed from the "girlish tenor" of the earlier days to a more matured texture.
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 233–256 Linguist David Crystal correlated the use among men of an "effeminate" or "simpering" voice with a widened range of pitch, glissando effects between stressed syllables, greater use of fall-rise and rise-fall tones, vocal breathiness and huskiness, and occasionally more switching to the falsetto register.Crystal, David. English Tone of Voice: Essays in Intonation, Prosody and Paralanguage.
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The original rhythm track consisted of just vocals, drums and a Dobro. Other instruments were later added to embellish the song, including McVie's Vox Continental organ. Billboard described McVie's vocal performance as "a completely distinctive voice, with a sexy huskiness that is unique in pop today." The 45 RPM single version of the song released for radio airplay was a remixed, edited version that differed from the mix on the Fleetwood Mac album.
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" In his review for Entertainment Weekly, Henry Goldblatt noted "the huskiness that defined Brandy's prior work has been replaced by wispier and higher tones. The result is pleasant but far less ambitious than her last CD, 2004's Afrodisiac." Mikael Wood's review for Los Angeles Times was less emphatic. He gave the album one and a half stars out of four, and said: "Unfortunately, it's also hard to make it through the thing.
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Contact granuloma may also arise after intubation, and so following intubation, patients should be monitored if voice symptoms arise. Symptoms may or may not include hoarse voice, described as "huskiness" by some patients, "aching" in the throat related to increased effort to produce voice, and the feeling of having a lump in one's throat when swallowing. It is also possible to have no such symptoms, especially if the granuloma is small. A patient presenting with such symptoms or risk factors should therefore be referred for further visualization.
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The song has received mixed reviews. Critics overall praised the lyrics and Lavigne's performance, but criticized Kroger's vocals and his seemingly "unnecessary" appearance. Cornelius Vernon-Boase of Soundscape Magazine wrote the song "is a slower song and has a rock ballad feel with a powerful chorus," praising Chad's vocals, writing that "they add nicely to the song with his huskiness that gives it the raw powerful feeling." Vernon-Boase gave the song a positive review, considering it one of the album's stand out tracks.
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In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau said that after the commercial failure of New Masters, "this one has a nice post- creative trauma feel, intimate and sensitive. Recommended to singer/songwriter specialists." In a retrospective review, Allmusic's William Ruhlmann gave it four out of five stars and called it "a group of simple, heartfelt songs played in spare arrangements on acoustic guitars and keyboards and driven by a restrained rhythm section." They added that "Stevens' craggy voice, with its odd breaks of tone and occasional huskiness, lent these sometimes sketchy songs depth".
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When Wells recorded her vocal she sang over the song's outro with a huskiness evoking the line delivery of Mae West: Wells would recall: "I was only joking but the producers said 'Keep it going, keep it going'." "My Guy" became the biggest hit ever for Wells, Motown's first female star, and reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart on 16 May 1964. The song led the Cashbox magazine R&B; chart for seven weeks. "My Guy" was also Wells' last hit single for Motown, except for duets she recorded with label mate Marvin Gaye.
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" While some songs are in the vein of the "rootsy jazzy folk-rock" of Martyn's earlier work, others move into pop territory. The album's rhythm tracks feature a jazz-funk base of bass and drums overlaid with chiming guitars and intricate, delicate cross-rhythms; a Rhythm Doctor drum machine is used on "Small Hours" and "One World". Hubert Adjei-Kontoh of Pitchfork describes One World as an experimental pop record. Martyn sings in a breathy, laidback style, ranging from smooth, warm tones to a more abrasive, blusey style; however, his voice bore a new huskiness, described by Rob Young of The Wire as "a weary grinding of words in the throat's mill.
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