Lynn Rene Bayley wrote:
> Why "poor"? She may have had the "voice of an angel" (though I doubt it), but
> if you read the liner notes to her records she always had the "ego of a
> starlet."
LINER NOTES LIE!!! Or, at the very least, stretch truth a lot. Liner notes are
written by the public relations department without any recourse to the singer.
Thay are written to attract the attention of a listener. They are written to
praise an artists or make an artist appear bigger than life. Never go by liner
notes.
> When she started all this, she said that she wanted to sing Butterfly at La
> Scala someday.
She didn't say this at the beginning. Another stretch. All she wanted to do is
to sing. She listened to classical music and the more classical music of
American and European show producers. She had never heard of La Scala. I
imagine someone at Sony talked to her about it and then asked her if she would
like to sing there. If you were 13 and on a roll doing concerts and albums, how
would you have answered?
> There is a 12-year-old girl at my church who sang a solo last year. Same
> sweet, breathy tone as Charlotte
Huh? Breathy? I can say much about Charlotte's singing but breathy is not one
of them.
> Hers is a QUITE unexceptional voice.
Again I disagree. Charlotte has a pretty voice. What make up for an excellent
voice with superior technical skills is her bubbling personality. She lights up
the stage and people's hearts, though not all. I tend to smile when I talk with
her and also when I hear her sing. She makes me smile, and that's one of the
reasons I listen to music in the first place. I like to smile.
> But you gets what you pays for, and anyone willing to pay $150 a pop to hear
> Charlotte the Charlatan does so with full foreknowledge that she cannot sing
> and doesn't care.
Them's fighting words. No, I won't pay $150 to hear Charlotte sing (I don't
have to) but I would pay $360 to hear Barbra Streisand sing. Charlotte CAN sing
and Charlotte DOES care and she is NOT a charlatan. She's a charmer. It's the
people at Sony who don't care.I have a couple of kids singers ready to "take on
the world" who sing differently then Charlotte who have better technical
skills. You may never hear them on a major label album because in this country,
the classical labels are not like Sony (Japan). They care about the person more
than the money they could make from them. At least my contacts do; RCA and
Capitol (Epilogue began as a child's demo label of Capitol Records) and the head
of RCA told me the other day that for what Sony is doing to Charlotte the person
in charge should be shot. (This is not a to be publicized comment and I will
deny saying it.)
> WE care because we care about vocal art.
Do we really? If we really cared we would not put down a singer who is
struggling.
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Dean FH Macy, Lit.D./Mus.D.
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