She was so strong and commanding with her voice and it had a huskiness to it.
Not quite Cat, but Birch has power Offering up soaring southern soul, Diane Birch calls to mind Cat Power circa 'The Greatest' (she even looks a bit like her), though Birch has less of that 40 fags and a bottle of whiskey at 4am huskiness in her voice, nor the sense of darkness; hers is a far more mainstream sound, not in the same league as Cat Power.
She is very solemn, rarely smiling, her voice switching from huskiness to a treacle-like richness between breaths.
It was a face that launched a thousand inquisitions: the mouth too tight to be rosy, and a voice pitched for slang, all bite and huskiness.
There's even an undertone of incipient baritonal huskiness in the rounded forthrightness of Isabel Leonard's adolescent Cherubino (a male role for a female singer).
"Sometimes women do what is called devoicing, which is when they deliberately soften their voices so as to be non-threatening," she said, with a demonstrative huskiness.
Although Sinatra went on to make his greatest records for Capitol in the mid-1950s and early '60s — a period alluded to but not covered in the biography — even on the album widely regarded as his all-time masterpiece, "In the Wee Small Hours," his singing is tinged with a noirish worldliness and a slight huskiness that steadily coarsened into the hard, punchy sound of the later years.
Danielle, the frontwoman, sometimes sings with a carnal huskiness, with an almost bluesy undertone.
Ms. Lea, who began her career in the mid-1950s and recorded until a few years ago, had a supple voice whose gentle huskiness recalled the sound of a viola.
He has a huskiness of voice and a slight stiffness as he gets in and out of a car.
Reviewing "City to City" in Rolling Stone, Ken Emerson said Mr. Rafferty "writes with the sweet melodiousness of Paul McCartney and sings with John Lennon's weary huskiness".
