Frank? I have to agree. I once wrote an essay for college all about his singing 'The Way You Look Tonight'. There have been something like 23 covers of that song since 1936 when Fred Astaire sang it for the first time. The lyrics were written by a woman. Of all the versions, Frank Sinatra's was the best.
I teach a class using that song, pointing out how his phrasing and timing are there even though he leaves out a word here and so on. I use it to get them thinking about their timing, distance, range and broken rhythm. I show how the lyrics only have one rhyme line but it is a song, not a poem and that is like a contest versus a street fight etc. Lots of good teaching points in that song. In fact I use a few singers and songs in classes.
Mariah Carey has enormous range and is a pop singer yet she was classically trained by her mother, the voice coach for the New York Opera. The point is that with a solid classical base you can then do anything, pop, rock, jazz etc. It is all about being trained properly in the first place. You can't shed stuff you don't know and you will find all the best 'RBSD' guys had classical MA training at some stage.
Anybody else use analogous examples in your instructing?
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