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Reply #60 posted 03/23/21 4:02pm

Bighead

Graycap23 said:

Bighead said:

Prince really wanted to impress the group of "White Folks". He himself told the record company he didn't want to be labled as a black artist.

lol........that isn't why he made that statement.

But, he did make that statement. He wanted the White Rock fan.

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Reply #61 posted 03/23/21 4:12pm

Graycap23

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Bighead said:

Graycap23 said:

lol........that isn't why he made that statement.

But, he did make that statement. He wanted the White Rock fan.

[Edited 3/23/21 16:03pm]

He wanted all music fans...........not just the white rock fan.

FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent.
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Reply #62 posted 03/23/21 10:40pm

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I've always wished that Mountains wasn't done in his falsetto

Oh and Pheromone

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Reply #63 posted 03/23/21 11:49pm

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No way! Pheromone works precisely cos of the falsetto.
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Reply #64 posted 03/24/21 6:17am

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Prince's falsetto is what drew me personally. Most of my favorite Prince song's are done in falsetto. If I was introduced to Prince on songs like 1999 instead of Soft and Wet I probably wouldn't have been such a big fan.
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Reply #65 posted 03/25/21 1:48am

margi

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His falsetto put him on the map in the early years and also cemented his superstardom with the number one smash Kiss .. in both cases his falsetto broadened his fan base

Falsetto or head voice are skills in singing and recognised as singing voices. Look at the best singer in the world at this time which is Dimash. He does a whistle note D8 and you only hear a whistle but it is still considered singing. Prince sang a C10 I read. I didn't realise how good he was until I saw Dimash. Apparently singers who sing 6 octaves are very rare, like less than 6, in the world. Dimash being one and also Prince as a singer that could spread over those octaves. We lost someone that I don't think we appreciated because he didn't use Internet to allow people to find him. I may be wrong but he was not so public.
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Reply #66 posted 03/25/21 1:53am

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margi said:

TrevorAyer said:

His falsetto put him on the map in the early years and also cemented his superstardom with the number one smash Kiss .. in both cases his falsetto broadened his fan base

Falsetto or head voice are skills in singing and recognised as singing voices. Look at the best singer in the world at this time which is Dimash. He does a whistle note D8 and you only hear a whistle but it is still considered singing. Prince sang a C10 I read. I didn't realise how good he was until I saw Dimash. Apparently singers who sing 6 octaves are very rare, like less than 6, in the world. Dimash being one and also Prince as a singer that could spread over those octaves. We lost someone that I don't think we appreciated because he didn't use Internet to allow people to find him. I may be wrong but he was not so public.

I apologise but Prince sang a G10 not a C10. What a typing error to make!
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Reply #67 posted 03/29/21 1:08pm

RJOrion
Prince's greatest falsetto songs:

Crazy You
My Love Is Forever
Its Gonna Be Lonely
Do Me Baby
When 2 R In Love
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Reply #68 posted 03/29/21 11:55pm

Vannormal

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Prince had the third best falsetto known to man (just behind Al Green and Marvin Gaye). It's my favorite Prince "voice".

Other honorable mentions:

Snokey Robinson

Curtis Mayfield

D'Angelo

Eddie Kendricks

Thom Yorke

Michael Jackson

Jeff Buckley

Freddie Mercury

Phillip Bailey

Andy Gibb

Little Richard

Roy Orbison

Del Shannon

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I agree on most.

Don't forget George Michael.

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
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Reply #69 posted 03/31/21 2:47pm

MoodyBlumes

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

RODSERLING said:
Of course News is bad. I think that ludicrous you love News, but you don't like Prince.
I thought no one would listen to news unless they were huge prince fans

Most don't listen to jazz unless they are huge jazz fans - Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is the highest selling jazz album of all time, and has only sold about 5 million copies to date.

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Reply #70 posted 03/31/21 5:22pm

RJOrion

Vannormal said:



homesquid said:


Prince had the third best falsetto known to man (just behind Al Green and Marvin Gaye). It's my favorite Prince "voice".


Other honorable mentions:


Snokey Robinson


Curtis Mayfield


D'Angelo


Eddie Kendricks


Thom Yorke


Michael Jackson


Jeff Buckley


Freddie Mercury


Phillip Bailey


Andy Gibb


Little Richard


Roy Orbison


Del Shannon




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I agree on most.


Don't forget George Michael.


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george michael sang mostly tenor, not falsetto...name a song he sang falsetto...i cant think of one...he always sang C5 and below
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Reply #71 posted 04/12/21 3:11pm

Astasheiks

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

No way! Pheromone works precisely cos of the falsetto.

Damn right!

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Reply #72 posted 04/12/21 3:20pm

Astasheiks

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Graycap23 said:

Being Black limited Prince's appeal.

That is...if u want 2 be real about what the U.S. was when he started out.

They wouldn't evn play Black videos on MTV.

And tried to go back to under 4 years of President Trump! ... biggrin lol hrmph

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Reply #73 posted 04/14/21 10:26am

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I have a friend who told me the reason he doesn't like Prince is the falseto. Caught me offguard. It never occured to me that anyone would be turned off by it. I suppose I wouldn't be surprised by someone who's homophobic thinking the falseto sounds "gay", but this friend was says he hates the voice isn't remotely like that.


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Reply #74 posted 04/18/21 5:22am

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Many ppl, esp white rock fans, do not like falsetto But that has always been a part of male singers in rnb and gospel So I guess that might have been just his singing preference but its also his way of keeping some rnb in his music even when it was a song like when u were mine But I do think yeah, if he really wanted to get a bigger audience, I'd have had done less of that maybe He obv knew it as on purple rain theres less falsetto Same on Atwiad Also parade Sott too

I think it probably did.

But I appreciate many of his falsetto songs , maybe not all but many many.

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Reply #75 posted 04/18/21 11:28am

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I remember being a teenager listening to Prince outside shooting the basketball listening to Prince, and running to switch the song before any falsetto singing started.

I'm from Louisiana.

Until I find the righteous one...
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Reply #76 posted 04/19/21 12:54pm

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Hell, if it were up to me, he would have been singing everything in falsetto like he did in the early years. The falsetto, the synths, and the screams are what I consider trademark Prince.

Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #77 posted 04/21/21 7:23am

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PRINCE REDEFINED FALSETTO!

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