Yes, he's indeed a very pathetic vocalist! Not to mention the plain compositions he "sings" on. Far from giving in to revisionism, I guess his ethnical background unfortunately gives him an unwarranted credit boost in this day and age. History has its back-and forths, it must be the toll to pay after three centuries of violent western domination... Take a look at all the junk Hiphop glutting the pop market... What a sham of a tribute to pay to Louis Amstrong, Charlie Parker, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder! What a stealth of dignity for the communities they embodied! As if "grooving" to a void syncopated sixteen-note drum pattern was the sole genetically inherited prerogative of non western folks, and as such forcefully practising it a token of cosmopolitan modernity! Well, to media visually conditionned youths, seems that music is everything but music... Let them buy multicoloured Benneton jumpers instead!
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