Ariel sings mere vowels — "A-i-e" — from a hidden place above the stage.
What she generally tries to do in interviews, she said, is to get people off their center, to get them to a "state of abandon," when their words transcend mere information and "sing".
He's something beyond mere rapping or even singing — he's an original.
Its fourth album goes beyond mere aural radiance, as sung and instrumental harmonies encircle each other like shared desires that still can't transcend the essential loneliness each lover must feel.
And her mad scene was quite wonderful, with the excitement and beauty in the singing to turn mere technical adroitness into a blaze of fireworks that sent showers of sparks into the audience.
The mere thought of never possibly singing again was so very devastating.
Matthew Passion" sung by a mere 24 singers: only three voices to a part.
Who knew that long before endorsements for T-Mobile were even a tinkle in her ear, Catherine Zeta-Jones, hoofer extraordinaire, starred in a London production of "42nd Street" when she was a mere 17? Or that Renée Zellweger sings with a kind of Billie Holiday quiver that breaks your heart.
The mere experience of hearing them sing with such mastery made up for a lack of tenderness or subtlety, which was plentifully supplied by the top-drawer supporting cast of Brangäne (Anne Sofie von Otter, intelligent and vigilant), the wise, wronged King Marke Matthew Bestt) and, most affecting of all, Jukka Rasilainen as Kurwenal, troubled, faithful and rigid with grief.
But the singing voice is a mere detail in a large texture of a self that gradually comes alive — enough to seem wholly invented and fully imagined, although based on what was once real.
