Most stirring are the songs Dee sings with just spare piano accompaniment; on these, her husky and warm voice achieves an unusual combination of affect and sincerity.
Though photographers like Bruce Weber would influence his early work, by the mid-1980s Ritts would find his own voice, achieved largely through his innate understanding of natural light.
Mick Hucknall, he of the unmistakably smooth pop-soul voice, achieved enormous success in the 80s and 90s fronting Simply Red.
The soundtracks of John Barry and Nino Rota inform Cat's Eyes' score, at its loveliest on the harpsichord-laden Opening Credit Song, on which Zeffira's voice achieves a blankness worthy of Françoise Hardy.
Women's voices achieved a power that seems unprecedented, and the whole conversation changed.
A simple "Come on, mate, she doesn't want to talk to you" or "You're not groping anyone on my watch, we're going home" from a valued male voice could achieve what the same words in a female voice so often fails to – respect for a woman's wishes.
Daude is better on the tougher, tighter tracks that demonstrate the rhythmic suppleness and edge her voice can achieve.
Sure, we've all heard comics make fun of Lamaze, but giving the Lamaze coach a wascally wabbit voice somehow achieves a new level of silliness.
It requires throughness and connection, and only then will the reader feel the surge of power that a clever borrowed voice never achieves.
My friend Victor Brown, who has died aged 95, was a singer with an attractive tenor voice who achieved fame in the last days of British variety as half of the urbane musical duo Harriott and Evans Victorr's stage name).
