Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any other TRUE female tenors
The tricky thing is that women who sing chest with a tenor technique
(mostly chest, and mixing into a hard mix at the top) is that they
don't generally sound like tenors. A woman with very long/thick vocal
folds (to allow for the low range) will probably also have a
proportionately large vocal tract. This translates to a richer,
darker sound than one expects from a tenor singing the same way.
So I'm guessing what you want is a woman who sings like a tenor in
the tenor range and *sounds* like a tenor. Try Florence Kopleff. For
the longest time, I thought the "pleni sunt coeli" fugue in Bach's b
minor mass had 2 sops, 2 tenors, and a bass because I grew up with
the Robert Shaw version where Kopleff sings the "alto" part. (which
was probably meant for a teenaged boy alto, originally)
Her technique (in this recording anyway) is very "ringy" and chesty,
and goes into a hard mix. She never goes into pure head voice.
It is a lot easier for me to name lady "baritones", because true
contraltos who stay in chest, tend to have such dark voices... Try
the "bass" from Sweet Honey in the Rock, or the lady from Yaz. They
stick to the baritone range (up to A4 or so), and never go into that
compressed high tenor sound one expects from an operatic tenor at the
very top.
Tako
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