Smoking and the Singing Voice
Smoking and the Singing Voice
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Smoking and the Singing Voice
Posted: 6/25/07 at 12:55am
Everyone always thinks smoking can ruin your singing voice, but have you ever heard a smoker sing who had a beautiful voice regardless? Or...even weirder...a singer whose smoking ENHANCED the singing. Like making the voice huskier and scratchier somehow improved the singing.
#2re: Smoking and the Singing Voice
Posted: 6/25/07 at 12:58ami believe adam pascal smokes and i think he has a beautiful voice.
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: Smoking and the Singing Voice
Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:01amCould not disagree more with every word after the word "and" in that sentence, but I guess that's an example.
#3re: Smoking and the Singing Voice
Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:22am
well i can see how you wouldn't like his voice if you were not into rock. i listen to other artists who have similar voices beacuse that's the genre i enjoy.
he does have a voice that is very distictly rock.
Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#4re: Smoking and the Singing Voice
Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:30ammickey rourke, who smokes a lot, has a really really really compelling voice. granted, i've never heard him sing, but speaking-wise his voice is really really great.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: Smoking and the Singing Voice
Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:15am
I think you can have s exy raspy voice without smoking. I think it's a myth to say a voice got better through smoking.
Listen to Joni Mitchell, then and now, to hear how smoking ravages a voice.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Smoking and the Singing Voice
Posted: 6/25/07 at 6:19amJustino Diaz from the Metropolitan Opera smokes and Patti LuPone smoked up until she became pregnant. Her voice improved greatly after that.
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