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#126

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 8/28/06 at 1:40am

i can't stand ethel merman
i get seriously pissed off when people praise her.
really don't understand the hype

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#127

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:16am

i have a love/hate relationship with harvey's voice.

#128

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 10:09am

I can't stand Carol Channings's vioce! Also, Ethel Merman- just in Gypsy.

#129

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 10:12am

Also Tyne Daly's vioce mainly just in Gypsy. I think she is counted as a respectable singer?

#130

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 10:15am

Heather Headley. While she doesn't greate my nerves per se, I just don't get it. Besides on "The Gods Love Nubia", she's never impressed me too much.

Thank you! No one else I have ever talked to has said they don't like her. She does this crescendo thing where she gets louder at the end of each word and it drives me up a wall.

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#131

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 10:20am

Patti LuPone
Michael Crawford
Audra McDonald (that congested nasal sound)
Linda Balgord
Barbra Streisand (from the late 80's to today)
Stephanie J. Block

#132

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 10:23am

Stephanie J. Block, she just sings with this crazy weird accent.
Ellen Greene, someone take away her vocal chords.
Patti Lupone's vibrato drives me insane.
And Alan Cumming can't sing.

#133

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 1:15pm

I agree with Ethel Merman and Patti Lupone. They can sing, but I don't like their voices.

#134

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 1:38pm

Mandy Patinkin

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#135

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 1:56pm

I don't particularly care for the timbre of Judy Kuhn's voice, nor am I an enormous fan of the consonant-free wonder that is La Lupone.

I also really, really, REALLY cannot bear to listen to Raul Esparza and that horrifying Parkinson's tremble he calls a vibrato.

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#136

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 2:01pm

Ethel Merman. I just can't stand her belt...at all.

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#137

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 2:24pm

I also really, really, REALLY cannot bear to listen to Raul Esparza and that horrifying Parkinson's tremble he calls a vibrato.

Totally agree. He's a great performer and actor, but I can't listen to him on CDs.

#138

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 2:27pm

I used to not be able to stand Daphne Ruben-Vega's voice, but now it's grown on me and I love it. Her voice is something I've always seen as needing to get used to.

I really, REALLY dislike Carol Channing and Chita Rivera's voices.

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#139

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 3:04pm

I really dont like audra Mcdonald.
I dont like bernadette peters in gypsy.
i really dont like sherie rene scott through chunks of the last 5 years.

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#140

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 4:03pm

sarah brightman. the end.

#141

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 7:01pm

I can't believe so many people don't like Patti Lupone's vioce! WOW!!

#142

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 8:35pm

I was thinking Raul Esparza while reading this thread. I couldn't really stand him on the tick...tick...boom recording, but after seeing some clips of him performing it, he grew on me. Also...whoever was Polly in the original cast recording of Crazy For You, I can't stand her vibrato.

#143

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 9:32pm

LINDA EDER.

Her vibratto is just....gross.

Updated On: 9/9/06 at 09:32 PM

#144

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/9/06 at 9:52pm

I'm not a fan of Linda Eder either. I also don't always love Amy Spanger. Sometimes I think she's great and sometimes I think she's really nasal.

#145

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:07am

I'm not an Audra McDonald fan either, the only thing I can stand to hear her in is Marie Christine.

And Frances Ruffelle does it for me too. She makes me feel like my ears are going to start bleeding at any second.

#146

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/10/06 at 1:32am

IDINA MENZEL

#147

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/10/06 at 1:41am

Bernadette Peters

Children and Art came up on my iTunes earlier today and I'm still cringing.

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#148

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/10/06 at 2:01am

Crazy vibratos that I can not stand:

Linda Eder
Raul Esparza
Carolee Carmello
Carol Channing
Marin Mazzie

#149

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/10/06 at 3:57am

Laura Benanti. So breathy. She needs some support.

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#150

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves

Posted: 9/10/06 at 5:46am

Michael Crawford
Sarah Brightman
Liza Minelli