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Does "The Singing Vacuum Cleaner" from The Fifth Element count? Despite the rather ludicrous costume given the actress, the singer behind that piece is actually quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inva_Mula
For whatever it's worth, that song was considered to be impossible for humans to actually perform.. Humans always being ready to destroy expectations, someone of course did it, Jane Zhang the opera singer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrJFNYOw4wk
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Ooor instead of being angry about the page and calling it a sad day, you could be happy about the interesting discussion it generated? Lots of new stuff here I've never heard about that was cool to check out.
Ooor instead of responding only to people's emotions and trying to control them, you could respond to the content of their post and admit they have a point. We all have choices. Saccharine positivity is ruining HN. In the past few days I've seen HN posts that: 1. Said a company's behavior only looks immoral, but it's actually not their fault, because they're just following incentives. 2. Said volunteerism isn't neede…
Hehe that made me laugh out loud. I've not heard that before. Has that claim been made before on HN? (Links to comments welcome, thanks.)
It’sa sad day when shallow content like this reaches the HN front-page. Calling a narrow subset of U.S.American/UK artists as “greatest artists of all time” is a big joke on the art of singing. Others are complaining about missing Nusrat Khan, or Dimash but heck, they didn’t even include Western greats like Pavarotti!
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A range of 6 octaves is positively superhuman. Even Yma Sumac, who is often cited when it comes to the widest vocal range, was just barely short of 6 octaves. Since I've just looked this up: Tim Storms ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Storms ), the current world record holder when it comes to vocal range, has one of 10 octaves (with the lower end extending into infrasound, i.e. being inaudible to the human ear)!
Mike Patton from Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/Tomahawk supposedly has a range of 6.5 octaves, but some people say it doesn't count because it includes screaming. He does a lot of weird stuff but he's one of my favorite vocalists. Regardless of whether or not his range is 6.5 octaves it is definitely extraordinarily wide. Tim Storms is an interesting case, I've heard of him before but honestly before I heard his music I w…
It’sa sad day when shallow content like this reaches the HN front-page. Calling a narrow subset of U.S.American/UK artists as “greatest artists of all time” is a big joke on the art of singing. Others are complaining about missing Nusrat Khan, or Dimash but heck, they didn’t even include Western greats like Pavarotti!
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Ooor instead of responding only to people's emotions and trying to control them, you could respond to the content of their post and admit they have a point. We all have choices. Saccharine positivity is ruining HN. In the past few days I've seen HN posts that: 1. Said a company's behavior only looks immoral, but it's actually not their fault, because they're just following incentives. 2. Said volunteerism isn't neede…
> Saccharine positivity is ruining HN. Hehe that made me laugh out loud. I've not heard that before. Has that claim been made before on HN? (Links to comments welcome, thanks.)