I think Dame Shirley Bassey is one of the greatest voices of the recorded musical performance. When I think of the power of her voice, I also think of Mina Mazzini, Dalida, Rocio Jurado, and Sabah.
As one who thinks this woman is absolutely fabulous, in my top 7 for sure, and who thinks Whitney is the best EVER, past, present and future, I just watched a side by side, and while biting my tonque, SB almost makes WH sound like she sings compressed. Amazing. Whitney's voice and reaonance, power, how the music just flows,is incredible, and so is Ms. Bassey.
I want to add something that is very hard to control. Going in and out of volume. Shirley is a master of swollowing her enormous fortes, diminuendos that is. Having a forte that big takes air, lots of air. You set that air under pressure to increase volume and often singers has to like "jump out" of that state, in order not to faint or get dizzy from internal pressure. But not Shirley, she handles her voice from softest piano to the grandest forte fortisimo as if she had a seamless volumebutton. Many times i get more impressed over how she gets herself in and out of thees enormous fortes, than the forte itself.
@GVOCALS, Thank you very much for sharing with us your very interesting break down analysis of the Dame Veronica's voice and performance. However, I think we should point out yet some other aspects, which we might find at least so much if not even more important when praising the global phenomena of DSVB. Here I'd like to recall a few which I find very important: a. Firstly, her fascinating virtue which I enjoy very much is her beautiful and persistently highest AESTHETIC AND ARTISTIC TASTE in usage of such a wide range of her vocal and other "weapons", ensuring the proper measure of each for a particular song or performance. And besides, let's not forget that here we are talking about her consistency not only for some year or a decade -- it's for the entire her career, practically the whole her life! I think only the very biggest true artists of all times are/were able to do it in this way! b. Then, there is her overwhelmingly PASSIONATE WAY OF SINGING, showing that this genuine passion is coming right from the very core of Dame Shirley, because, in fact -- this passion just IS Dame Shirley! We can see that in "speaking" of her eyes, in her smiling, in motion of her hands, which are talking almost as much as the song lyrics are! I guess it's coming from the Welsh part of her temperament, and that passion is really important and it's amazing part of the whole impression from her performances! c. And finally, to my taste absolutely miraculous and most charming Veronica's talent -- her fascinating, magnificent style of diction. Where the poetry from lyrics is so beautifully preserved and even emphasized by her so magical, touching, insane MIXTURE OF SINGING AND RECITING the song. And which is then additionally embellished by her beautiful and powerful voice! And here, as the biggest highlight in this I find her unmatched style of singing "If You Go Away". Sometimes I like to joke by saying that she could easily make the poetry even from the logarithmic tables. Generally, I think that Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey and her songs are an amazing source of paradigmatic lessons for generations of young singers to come!
Her vibrato has actually the ideal width and speed, the problem is that singers nowadays sing with tremolos (a vocal fault confused with vibrato), so the people grew used to that sound.
Don’t know what u mean. Her vibratos normally perfectly even, sometimes very speedy. I think u might’ve just gotten accustomed to super speedy goat vibrato.
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She almost uses an old school operatic chest voice approach, insanely well developed voice.
She is not talked about enough when people think of singers with effortless power.
Just wonderful. Style, class and stamina, endless stamina.
I think Dame Shirley Bassey is one of the greatest voices of the recorded musical performance. When I think of the power of her voice, I also think of Mina Mazzini, Dalida, Rocio Jurado, and Sabah.
As one who thinks this woman is absolutely fabulous, in my top 7 for sure, and who thinks Whitney is the best EVER, past, present and future, I just watched a side by side, and while biting my tonque, SB almost makes WH sound like she sings compressed. Amazing. Whitney's voice and reaonance, power, how the music just flows,is incredible, and so is Ms. Bassey.
Powerful and SOOO. BEAUTIFUL!!
I want to add something that is very hard to control. Going in and out of volume. Shirley is a master of swollowing her enormous fortes, diminuendos that is. Having a forte that big takes air, lots of air. You set that air under pressure to increase volume and often singers has to like "jump out" of that state, in order not to faint or get dizzy from internal pressure. But not Shirley, she handles her voice from softest piano to the grandest forte fortisimo as if she had a seamless volumebutton. Many times i get more impressed over how she gets herself in and out of thees enormous fortes, than the forte itself.
@GVOCALS,
Thank you very much for sharing with us your very interesting break down analysis of the Dame Veronica's voice and performance. However, I think we should point out yet some other aspects, which we might find at least so much if not even more important when praising the global phenomena of DSVB. Here I'd like to recall a few which I find very important:
a. Firstly, her fascinating virtue which I enjoy very much is her beautiful and persistently highest AESTHETIC AND ARTISTIC TASTE in usage of such a wide range of her vocal and other "weapons", ensuring the proper measure of each for a particular song or performance. And besides, let's not forget that here we are talking about her consistency not only for some year or a decade -- it's for the entire her career, practically the whole her life! I think only the very biggest true artists of all times are/were able to do it in this way!
b. Then, there is her overwhelmingly PASSIONATE WAY OF SINGING, showing that this genuine passion is coming right from the very core of Dame Shirley, because, in fact -- this passion just IS Dame Shirley! We can see that in "speaking" of her eyes, in her smiling, in motion of her hands, which are talking almost as much as the song lyrics are! I guess it's coming from the Welsh part of her temperament, and that passion is really important and it's amazing part of the whole impression from her performances!
c. And finally, to my taste absolutely miraculous and most charming Veronica's talent -- her fascinating, magnificent style of diction. Where the poetry from lyrics is so beautifully preserved and even emphasized by her so magical, touching, insane MIXTURE OF SINGING AND RECITING the song. And which is then additionally embellished by her beautiful and powerful voice! And here, as the biggest highlight in this I find her unmatched style of singing "If You Go Away". Sometimes I like to joke by saying that she could easily make the poetry even from the logarithmic tables.
Generally, I think that Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey and her songs are an amazing source of paradigmatic lessons for generations of young singers to come!
Can you do a video on Mahalia Jackson. She also has a HUGE chest register
How does one develop a voice like this?
😍🔥❤ Amazing performances dsb .. 💯👍
Yes!
yasss queen
You can hear the different in timbre when she opens up her mouth to utilize that pharyngeal resonance
She wasn’t always a mezzo.
3:04 what performance is this
As I Love You with Anthony Newley.
10:21 loll overpowered
love her resonance hate her vibrato its too wide for my liking
But still her vibrato is good
Her vibrato is prominent but not that different to other well trained voiced so i wonder what vibrato u do like
@@bafbaas1210 Barbra and judy has the same width as Shirley but their vibratos are faster and thus gives a sense of less width
Her vibrato has actually the ideal width and speed, the problem is that singers nowadays sing with tremolos (a vocal fault confused with vibrato), so the people grew used to that sound.
Don’t know what u mean. Her vibratos normally perfectly even, sometimes very speedy. I think u might’ve just gotten accustomed to super speedy goat vibrato.