A woman's voice

[Paisley]

Barbara Stanwick and Diana Rigg have good speaking voices.

 

[PADDY]

Sunny...you live up to your pen name

I'd swear that's the voice of an angel there As there were little rays of Sunny 'sunshine' coming out of the computer as I played those two lovely pieces. What a sweet gift of a voice you have there that just lights up all the dark corners and makes the blues fly way

 

[Emmababy]

Paddy, you're such a little charmer

 

[Sunny]

Paddy, you're such a little charmer

Aww, ditto! I do love to sing, so I'm really glad to hear others like it. I'm always a little afraid I'm bugging others when I do it - especially when I mess up. I pulled some boners in the shower last night. lol

You have a gorgeous singing voice, Sunny!

At first I didn't read the whole description of Lullaby in Ragtime and when it started playing I was like, oh my goodness, she DOES have a man voice!

Anyway, you and your brother have truly lovely voices!

You are too funny! lol If only my man voice did sound like that! Seriously, that brother of mine is quite good. I love to hear him sing.

Well... Here are a couple more. These were my very first attempts at recording, and they were quite impulsive. I sang what came into my head first.

Kathleen Mavourneen
Star of the County Down

My second brother (age 19) and I are learning a couple pieces. I have a tentative agreement from him to record one tonight. We'll see! It's for bass and tenor. The other piece is a duet from The Messiah, written for an alto and a tenor. But he's a first bass and can't possibly sing second tenor. So he's singing the alto part an octave lower and I'm singing the tenor an octave higher. Will be interesting! It'll be a while before that's ready to perform.

 

[PADDY]

Listening as I pen this...

Sunny, I'm reading through my emails..etc here, as you serenade with Star of the Co.Down..just wonderful.

You won't be aware of how much this particular song means to me, as I am originally from County Down and I lived and worked for a few years as a News Editor of a little paper in a place called 'Banbridge' which takes its name from the River Bann (which is named in this song).

You do it so well, thankyou for bringing a little tear of nostagia to my eye here

 

[Cacklewack]

The Wondrous Cross.

That was beautiful. Thanks, Sunny!

Matt

 

[Fletch]

Low, intelligent, inflected, and relatively unaccented drives me right up a wall.

 

[Miss Lucy June]

I have a lower voice as well...which seems to be what most of the ladies are posting here. I suppose more ladies than I thought also speak with a lower voice! (or, we're the only one's posting!)

And Sunny, I really loved that piece with your brother! Lovely voice! (or voices should I say!)

 

[PADDY]

Pardon me if this is a cultural misinterpretation Fletch...

Low, intelligent, inflected, and relatively unaccented drives me right up a wall.

In the UK, when you say that something/someone drives you 'up the wall' then it means that they really bug or annoy you.

Sadly...this big pond in between our land masses can play tricks with the English Language [huh]

However, in this case Fletch, I'm assuming that it's one of those negative sayings that actually means something quite positive?? As in..."I really DIG SUNNY'S VOICE!!"

Yes...?

 

[Fletch]

...Yes!

 

[KittyT]

I'm not sure how I'd classify my voice - I think it's pretty middle of the road, not high and not low. I had a bad throat infection in junior high that lowered my singing voice from a high soprano to an alto, though. Being from the Northwest, I do not have an accent, which I appreciate.

The voice that has probably struck me the most is Jennifer Tilly. Her voice is just so incredibly sensual.

Voices and accents fascinate me, but usually in conjunction with the language spoken, which really changes everything. Someone here commented on how charming an Irish girl sounded speaking German... I was never conscientious about my voice until a French gentleman I dated commented on how different my voice sounded when I spoke English, as he'd been used to hearing me speak French. Obviously, part of it is the sounds/intonations used by that language, but speaking French also brings out an entirely different quality in my own voice.

 

[GoldLeaf]

My voice is on the deeper side as well. I was an alto in 4th grade. I also have a delicate voice that I can damage and loose easily. I had to work in my marching band's haunted house during the weekends in October every year during high school. All the screaming to scare people would mean I wouldn't be able to talk normally for weeks!

I was told a couple of times I would have a great phone sex voice :eusa_doh: Other folks have told me that my voice would be good for radio. I have had many people tell me that they love my voice and that they enjoy hearing me speak. I don't understand that, as I think my voice has a nasal quality that I do not find pleasant. [huh]

I do, however, like my Minnesota accent that I got from my parents. It is tainted with a bit of New York City accent from my friends in college, and now a bit of a southern accent. It is still clearly a mid-western accent, as people place my family's origin often from my speech. But my way of speaking is my own, and I like it.

I used to enjoy singing, nothing serious. Just puttering around the house or with my friends. That was until I took a voice class in college to fill my art requirement, and the first day of class as we were introducing ourselves, the teacher interrupted me and said "her voice is an example of a damaged, smoker's voice."

Several of the students that she loved that semester (and invited to become part of the select choir) were smokers, but she ridiculed me at every available opportunity, from the way I dressed to the way I sang. She wouldn't let me sing songs in a range where I was comfortable, and I ended up sounding like one of the Chipmunks sucking on helium when I had to perform solo in class. It was the most humiliating experience of my life. I don't sing anymore. [huh]

 

[Emmababy]

Oh KittyT i could probably listen to Jennifer Tilly's voice for hours and hours and hours. And stare at her for that long too.

 

[Sunny]

Y'all are all so kind! Paddy, I don't know about NY but "driving up the wall" means the same thing for me as for you. Thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure if Fletch was speaking generally or specifically, but I do think I'm fairly unaccented. I've always lived in Texas, but I've got the accentless pronunciation that's characteristic of the big Southern cities.

Matt, I'm glad you like that one. Hymns are wonderful for doing intricate harmonies. Not that those were really intricate, but I still really enjoy singing them. It was initially an experiment to see how I sound when harmonizing.

GoldLeaf, I feel so bad for you. That is simply terrible of the teacher - I just can't believe people do that! I'm sorry.

KittyT, that reminds me of a fellow I met in Kyiv (Kiev) a couple years ago. He'd been living there for well over a year, but he was originally from North Carolina and had the thickest accent I'd ever heard. Even I couldn't understand him sometimes! And the Ukrainians who spoke English, and who spoke it very well, had a hard time as well. They couldn't tell the difference between a "regular" American accent and a British one, but North Carolina could throw them for a loop.

 

[gluegungeisha]

I love deeper women's voices, and I also like southern accents.

My voice is a little higher octave, but not shrill. I have a slight southwestern accent, hehe!