In this dusty village in northern Yemen, on the edge of the great Arabian desert called the Empty Quarter, it is enough to mention the United States, among the thousands of Islamic militants who teach and study here, to furrow brows, darken voices and set trigger fingers tightening.
In later years Di Stefano's voice darkened, and he ventured into heavier dramatic roles; he continued to perform occasionally until 1992.
Debut single New Love, which got her voted into the BBC Sound of 2016 longlist, showcases a smoke-darkened voice older and more disillusioned than her years.
The voice has darkened over the years, but the singing was confident and quietly impassioned.
Her voice had darkened, so that the contrast between her use of pianissimi – Olivero was fond of holding on to the softest notes for the longest possible time and then practically exploding them with a fast crescendo – and the weighty mezzoish tones in her lower register made her performances seem the epitome of the age of verismo.
His voice is still charged, an endlessly pliable instrument of comedy and impersonation, but that voice has also darkened, its comedy is deeper, the story it tells is more tragic and painful.
Fleming's voice, however, has darkened a bit with time, and its greater richness in its lower registers is now immensely appealing.
His voice is soft, and darkened, perhaps by the unfiltered Pall Malls he smokes steadily.
As Ms. Cook's voice has lowered and darkened, its innate expressiveness has intensified, erasing the last vestiges of the ingénue she used to be.
Elena Zaremba emphasized the darkened, slightly hooty lower region of her voice, which caused her high notes to be strident.
Everything about them was terrifying: their pimpled foreheads and red fingers, their blue uniforms, darkened under the arms, the boys' cracking voices and enormous feet, the girls' awkward makeup.
