The quietly spoken and painfully shy Calvi whispering over the phone is at odds with the powerful and confident frontwoman seen on stage, alternately caressing and tearing at her guitar, her deep, rich singing voice reverberating across a room.
The chorus, a flexible, powerful group drawn from the Dresden and Bavarian state operas, pushed deeper, singing with a hint of mania appropriate to Michael Schulz's production.
Outside the house, though, Buika (pronounced BWEE-kah) spent time with the local Gypsies and absorbed their passion for flamenco and the tradition of "cante jondo," or "deep singing".
Two individuals speaking the extinct native Alaskan dialect of Attu surfaced from the deep, singing old folk songs of love and loss.
Loved their deep throat singing at Bonnaroo in 2011.
Kirin J. Callinan, another Australian, led a trio from within a semicircle of effects pedals, summoning jackhammer industrial beats or fortresses of reverb around his deep, theatrical singing.
"You hear this other deep reality singing to you all the time, and much of the time you can't decipher it.
His deep, earthy singing is complemented by a haunting chorus.
According to Kelly, he adapted his song "Foggy Highway" for Renée Geyer because "I admired her deep soul singing, ferocious and vulnerable.
But his voice is deep, lilting, sing-song Welsh.
