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#1

Smoking 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.

#2

re: Smoking and the Singing Voice

Posted: 6/25/07 at 12:58am

i believe adam pascal smokes and i think he has a beautiful voice.
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#3

re: Smoking and the Singing Voice

Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:01am

Could not disagree more with every word after the word "and" in that sentence, but I guess that's an example.
#4

re: 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.
Less is more
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
#5

re: Smoking and the Singing Voice

Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:30am

mickey 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.
#6

re: 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.
#7

re: Smoking and the Singing Voice

Posted: 6/25/07 at 6:19am

Justino 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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