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Reminds me of Elton John.
Is Elto John a soprano? My sense of musical vocal groupings is rather vague.
That's funny, because music reviewers have actually referred to him as a cross between Elton John and Tori Amos.
Sir Elton is a tenor, possible even a baritone, and his high stuff is usually in the form of falsetto. The difference between countertenor and falsetto is that countertenor is your consistant, natural voice, while falsetto is a tone you affect, but not what your voice normally sounds like. I had the priviledge to see Elton John in concert a few years ago, and I notice he's starting to do less and less of the falsetto. Billy Joel is having the same problem as he ages as well. I think as men age their voices either tend to get lower, or just start to crack when they try to do falsetto.
And yes, Casey is amazing. I met him when he was a freshman and I was a junior and we had a choir class together, and even then he was insanely talented. I even got to perform duets with him in musicals two years running, before I graduated and he went off to Interlochen Arts Academy.
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(hey, the guys a RL friend!)
For those of you who liked Casey, I highly encourage you to buy his albums. He left his contract with Sony and owes them a great deal of money (even though he was under their classical lable, they wouldn't let him be too "artistic" in the kind of music he wrote.)
Standing at the Edge, the album I linked to above, is of course, brilliant, but Casey has about 5 albums he did independently before that (most are out of print) and he has one called
Divides he's working on now and hoping to release under his own label.
For more information, he has a
MySpace website when he is posting his new songs, and there is a YahooGroup dedicated to him on which you can usually catch any auctions that may take place of his older CDs when they are sold to raise funds for his current projects.
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Edited, Fri Jul 1 03:43:15 2005 by Ambrya
