Simply holding on requires a certain sang-froid; I have to know exactly what I am doing.
When someone is slowly but inexorably losing control of their bladder and bowels, with all the attendant accidents and embarrassment, a certain sang-froid is welcome.
Seems like "Nothing Was the Same" won't see the rapper leaving his core themes (feeling a certain way about sex and women, coming up, speaking to a certain demographic, singing) behind.
But his father, certain that "singing was something only 'fags' did," sent him to a psychiatrist.
The first challenge to Houston's legacy arrived in the early nineties, in the form of Mariah Carey, who, from the very beginning of her career, with her constant vocal runs and obsessive flurry of hands, took certain "black" singing habits to extremes.
Certain group members might be better at playing a certain instrument or singing a certain style better than others.
Both types of singing may also coexist, since a choir may contain several capable soloists who may at certain points sing as a group without the choir or with the choir as a background.
The most stirring moment came at the end when Ermano, heeding his obligation to his besieged men and heading for what looks like certain death, sings a heroic yet expressive cabaletta bidding farewell to his father and his lover.
One minute I'd be on my feet at Menopause: The Musical, whooping and cheering as an actress of a certain age sang "Only You" to a pink vibrator, the next some fascinating archive footage was helping me over my disappointment that the guy giving me my ticket at the Atomic Testing Museum didn't have two heads (the test site was just 60 miles from Las Vegas).
Certain performers sing all their notes in high C. It's never wholly clear what makes the difference between a Frank Sinatra and Joan Sutherland and any number of completely capable and fully engaged but decisively not comparable other performers of the same music.
