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I can't type too much, my callous lover is exhausted........

I'm with Sinnamon.

I don't think I could mimic someone else if I tried. I do try to learn the basic melody, phrasing, timing .... all that, and keep it in the style it was done in (usually anyhow).... but I couldn't mimic. Nor would I want to. I agree with (er, who said it.. lemme look)... It was Kelley: It is cool to hear someone NAIL an original singer, but if I ever was told I was doing that, I'd try to vary the songs. I don't wanna sound "just like" anybody. (not all the time)

I think my voice (or maybe my style) has blends of people I have grown up listening to all my life, but I don't try to mimic any of them. I mean, I guess I have a little of this person in my vocal style, and a little of that person.... etc.... and just a whole lot of ME. And that's about the best I can do.  :D


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I agree that it's cool to hear someone nail an original singer also...but it is equally cool to hear someone sing a song in their very own style and sound just as good as the original version....if not better.   Case in point...Charmin singing Barbed Wire & Roses...in my personal opinion the best version of that song I have ever heard.    

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OK time to throw in my  :2cents:
It takes talent to mimic another singer.  It takes courage, knowledge and experience to stray from the exact copy of what someone else has done.  What I've read so far indicates that we have a fair number of singers here that have that knowledge and experience.

I was taught, back during the age of 'square wheels', that a musician (I played trumpet) must learn the basics and be able to provide the exact notes and phrasing of the written sheet music and when they had done so could be called a musician.  There is plenty of room in this world for musicians (or as was originally posted 'mimics') ... let them be.  

Musicians who can take a piece of music and impart something of themselves and make it pleasurable and different, and yet the same, are artists.  They too have their place for without them we would have nothing new or different.  How drab life would be without artists.  

Then there are those who get up and make us all wish we were somewhere else.  These persons are called many things but I prefer to call them 'enhancers'.  For without them musicians and artists would not be appreciated.  

Whoops I think I just put in 5 cents!

"Some times you feel like a nut..........sometimes you don't"

Most of the time, I feel like a nut.

why have I never realised how wise you are before now?

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"Be who you are and say what you feel... Because those that matter... Don't mind...And those that mind... Don't matter."

Gawrsh!!! Thanks Morgan.  However, as my wife would be more than willing to tell anyone, I am not wise so much as ... how does that saying go?

Ah yes ... Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then!