Paul Robeson - America's low octave

With his deep voice ,Paul Robeson sings now "John Brown's Body".

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Music

Tags:

• paul
• robeson
• singer
• bass
• john
• brown
• body
• glory
• hallelujah

[NWKBricks1]

Great athlete, singer, actor, and activist.

[pelageja23]

*****5*****

Very very nice!!!

[agnosticnixie]

Deep bass voices like his are so rare. And to think he spent his last yeast sick from the stress of being kept a virtual prisoner in the US (he wasn't even allowed to cross the Mexican and Canadian borders, which at the time were open borders).

[raigekimaru]

@Taenyr

my timbre is definitely Italianate. it's warm and extremely dark as opposed to steely, bright and piercing like a Germanic voice. what's your voice like?

[Taenyr]

@raigekimaru It sounds like you might be a young Sam Ramey. Jerome Hines said he was something between a bass and a baritone - but without the distinctive Germanic timbre of the "bass-baritone." As it happens, he is best known for his Rossini (and his many villainous roles, but I've heard him called a "Rossini" bass). How low can you sing - as in, project with color?

[raigekimaru]

@Taenyr

it's possible, but my voice would have to change significantly. as it is now, I'm comfortable playing around with Rossini/Verdi bass roles (nothing serious of course, I don't want to destroy my chords lol)

[Taenyr]

@raigekimaru Seventeen? Wow, that's really high, really early for a baritone - you may end up as a dramatic tenor (like Araiza, who supposedly started as a bass-baritone, too). =D

[raigekimaru]

@Taenyr

how did I forget Pavarotti? =D

well, I'm 20 at the moment, I would say I've had it since about 17. currently I think I'm more of a bass-baritone (I have an unusually dark, loud voice and my timbre is like a bass) but I'm hoping to be a dramatic baritone when I get older (don't wanna push my luck with that now though lol heard of too many great voices going by the wayside that way)

[Taenyr]

@raigekimaru Fair enough, though I don't think Pavarotti lost any timbre 'til the high D, and Juan Diego Flores can go up to E-flat and still sound great (though he's a Rossini tenor, so I guess that's not fair - that's like talking about Vladimir Miller as a typical bass =D). I'm a young baritone, so I can hit the A quickly in a scale, but I can't really sing it. About when did the high A manifest itself for you?

[raigekimaru]

@Taenyr

tenor high Cs are over rated. unless you're talking about Corelli or Bjorling, I think the most thrilling, dramatic notes in the tenor voice are A, Bb and B. most tenors tend to loose a lot of color and vocal weight on the high C and C# and sound thin, strangled or disconnected

[Taenyr]

@raigekimaru Or we miss out on both the high and the low Cs. =D But it is nice to find a baritone who sees the glass half full. xD

[LorentzElena32]

who else from today Afro-american youth is looking to express themselves in this magistral way?