oak,
let me suggest the possibility that the thai singer you were listening to may have been singing in 'falsetto' too but, was doing something very different with it from what david daniels does with his. imagine, if you will, the difference in sound the same set of guitar strings would make on an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar. the vocal folds make a sound that can be made into a number of different things by a singer's resonators.
compare the beegees (ed. 'yuk') or curtis mayfiled to mr. daniels and, though they all are singing in falsetto, you'll notice they sound very different.
by falsetto, i mean the 'girl voice' as a student of mine put it. that high squeeky sound, with no adduction, i would call whistle voice because that is what is happening- whistling through the vocal folds.
mike
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