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One contends that it takes long to appreciate a singer’s voice. Others felt enamored at the singer right away, just like love at first sight. I could sensed that the former, could not have appreciated right away the singers that she mentioned in her post. She never mentioned it but that is her system of appreciation. Hence, there was nothing to debate in the first place.

In my opinion a connoisseur of music has four things to consider: the lyrics of the song, the singer’s voice range, the arrangement, and the accompanying instruments. The beauty of a song is the sole responsibility of the music arranger. You may have the best singer but if the song is not in accord with the singer’s voice range,the result is a flop. These 4 ingredients must create harmony to elicit ovations and goosebumps to the listeners. Anything less, forces the listeners to take off theirs shoes and throw them in the direction of the singer…lol.

To me, a song that is sang differently from the original is another song because another soul is created out of that interpretation. As they say, we have 5 senses but we differ in the way we utilize each.
One singer came to mind who interpreted songs so differently that the moment you hear her sing, you will be mesmerized, and fell in love with her right away. She is Eva Cassidy with her interpretations of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Danny Boy, Bridge Over Troubled Water,Songbird and Fields of Gold. By the way, she died without ever knowing the the magnitude of love and affection showered on her out of these songs. She was also an angel to those who watched and hear her sang.

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Hi! May I answer your comments. And please don’t get me wrong.
Every person is entitled to her/his own opinion. I believe in democracy to a certain degree. Well, I do understand that every person is unique is his/her own way. We may have differences in our five human senses. Like what you’ve said that it will take years and years for you to listen and be able to appreciate the singer’s song. We are the opposite. It’s because it took less that 4 minutes to touch my heart and soul. It was Charice song “I Will Always Love You” on YOU TUBE. Mind you it was the first time. By chance I came to open her video on YOU TUBE. And that was it. The goosebumps, the tears I shed was too much to bear. That captivated my heart and surrendered to her. And by the way it’s not only me. Thousands if not millions shared the same experience. And we thank GOD for sending an angel in the person of Charice. To keep up inspired and strong despite all the odds in this world. Thank you also for all the support of the fans and people who believes in her talent. More power also to this fansite for keeping the flame alive in in our hearts. To Sister Angela love and world loves with you. Open your heart, your eyes, your ears and LISTEN once more to Charice songs. If it needs a miracle from GOD to help you feel of what we feel. So be it. GOD BLESS.

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I had no intentions to get back but I received the answer through the email so on your respect I thought it right to answer. I do not think this is the right place to discuss choices and preferences but I would like to thank you for the answer and the manner.

I would like to specify that I am not an expert in music but I just have a well appreciated music site and everyone connects in with all sorts of choices and tastes and I let them be, whether I like their choices or not because I feel it is right that way. It is a way to know new artists and different styles.

In a fanclub it is considerably different. Naturally I don’t let people insult other singers but I don’t particularly like it when they make comparisons. Each great artist has their unique style and I find it disrespectful for the one and the other artist to make comparisons. Even journalists do it and I’d kick their behind for it. I mean Elvis is Elvis, Aretha is Aretha, Celine is Celine and Charice is Charice. This is my personal opinion right or wrong that it may be.

I would like to correct one thing which I wrote. I appreciate Pavarotti and my respect is also based on the fact that I’m Italian but if I have to be honest … I love Placido Domingo if I had to choose I’d certainly choose him. I forgot to add plenty names on my preferences like Maria Callas, Edith Piaf and Stevie Wonder which are surely amongst legends. Edith Piaf is probably less known in the USA but in Europe she was very popular. A tiny woman with powerful voice. And by the way I did say that I don’t have feelings for Charices’ voice at the moment but I never said that my feelings couldn’t change and whatever for respect when she has her new album out it will definitely be posted as news in my web site like I do for all singers whether they are of my choice or not.

Enjoy work and keep up the good job on the fan web site. True to me I would never have the guts to open a Fan site for anybody. lol!!!

Excuse mistakes in the writing but I’m dropping to sleep. In europe it is 2.30 a.m.

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Hello Angela,

Thank you for coming back and posting your comment. It sounds like you run a pretty fair website. Glad to know you like Placido. In my younger days, I said that if I have to come back next time, I’ll come back as someone Placido sings to!

I’m not too attached to that notion anymore. Who knows? I could come back as someone as good as Placido instead!

Oh, well. I’m glad I can still laugh at myself!

I saw a movie on Edith Piaf! Didn’t know much about her. The movie made me look her up. Amazing life story. Amazing voice. (The life is always first with me.)

For the record, I am not a fan of praise at the expense of another. So when I read comparisons of artists (really a not too subtle attempt at put downs if you ask me) that involves bad-mouthing another, that saddens me. I could write more about this, but I’ve spent too much time in front of the computer today. It is time to stop.

Again, thank you for visiting again.

Wishing you all the best,

KV

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This response is offered, not as a moderator, but as just another reader. I will post another comment as moderator after this.

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Angela,

Thank you for what you’ve written below. It supports my claim – made on this site from the very beginning – that when we write something, we are mostly sharing information about us and our view of the world. In your example, your view of what moves you. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

So how did this ’shared view’ cause so much agitation amongst those who took exception to your original comment?

Well, if I remember correctly, the original comment you posted was offered AS IF DICTUM when in fact, it was simply your opinion as you yourself admitted below. As commenters, we are so quick to post our thoughts thinking we have a point to make. That’s well and good. But we don’t take a moment to check how the readers might view what we’ve written. Opinions, masquerading as fact, can always rub some people the wrong way instead of being viewed for what it is: One person’s view.

Your comment (copied below) I find totally understandable. It doesn’t rub me the wrong way because all you’re saying is that you are hard to please. There is nothing in what you’ve written that is about Charice actually except the fact that she hasn’t moved you. That says more about you than about Charice and that’s fine. But your original comment came across AS IF those who find her singing moving are a bit off their rockers. Comments like that will always invite a contentious response. Just like the one who posted her ‘prediction’ that Charice’s career will fade in a few years.

She, too, was expressing her ‘opinion’ – her thoughts, her fears really – but again, opinion offered AS IF DICTUM, with a tone that says, ‘This is the way it is, folks. End of story.’ As she found out, people responded rather violently to that ‘prediction.’ Unfortunately, a bit over the top, if I may so, but I’ll post another comment to address that.

I know you meant well. You say you have a music website and perhaps consider yourself a bit of an authority on music. That’s great. However, your musical ‘taste’ is still only yours. That taste cannot be imposed on anyone else. Someone’s taste for music – no matter how cacophonous it might sound to you – is just as valid as yours.

I, too, am hard to please. I don’t pay attention to pop music much. Prefer Placido Domingo over Pavarotti. Pavarotti never appealed to me. Right there we differ in ‘taste’. Two hard to please people with different preferences. But that’s OK. As Shakespeare says, ‘Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.”

But one thing that’s ALWAYS guaranteed to grab my attention is what I call the ALIVENESS/NATURALNESS factor. As Coelho writes in “The Alchemist,” “Life attracts life!” That is what grabbed me about Charice. She may not be perfect in one’s eyes, but she sure is freshly alive, authentic! She is a natural, paying heed to her NATURE, her heart! More than her music, that’ll get me every time.

Wishing you all the best,

KV

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Angela Says:
February 13th, 2009 at 6:48 am edit
I wanted to thank for repubblishing my original comment back. I was getting mighty angry. I didn’t want to be rude. It was just an opionon.

Fro KV
You are right. I am very hard to please. To love a singers voice it is never immeditate for me. I need to hear them for years and years and must be able to listen to their album after many years and feel the same emotions. There are very few singers in my memory that can still move me after many years when I listen to their old albums. Barbara Streisand “memories evergreen period”, Freddie Mercury (You can love him or hate him but his voice was extraordinary), Etta, Aretha Franklyn, Andrea Bocelli, Pavarotti, Whitney Houston and Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra for the stage and charm presence togeher with voice, Robbie Williams pity he wasted himself in general pop (He’s Royal Albert Hall live was fantastic), Charice for example in Italy is only known for duet with Bocelli. I’ve listend to many of her videos on you tube for curiosity but she doesn’t move me at the moment. Maybe she’s too young to hook me at the moment.

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I believe that our princess/queen has that integrity to keep her colony contained as she instills her love in each of us bees.

If we wanna bees belong to her colony, we must support our princess/queen regardless of any obstacles or no matter what it takes to attain and sustain her greatness. Just like bees, hornets or wasps do, they work together…. with the same interest and the same goals with her. I am one of the wanna bees, aren’t we all?

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I have not expressed everything I feel about Charice on this website, sometimes afraid they will be construed as disloyal to her or concerned it will ignite unreasonable passions of other fans. How many times have you seen comments complaining about almost every trivial thing… about her frequent flights, where she should stay, her ABS-CBN loyalty, the way other artists interact with her, her English, her Tagalog, her clothes, her hair, her weight, the way she looks, etc, etc. I have seen ugly exchanges between fans, tensions between fans and moderators.

I am now inclined to slow down my “investment” into the beehive that you aptly described, because I am beginning to see some of the ugly sides of making this investment from some fans. I am afraid of further disappointments.

However, I will continue to invest into Charice, because I am confident she will not disappoint me. I will listen and watch her performances, watch her in concerts whenever I can, enjoy her albums, hope and wish the best for her.

Your post captures the essence of what’s happening and I hope every fan will endeavor to focus on producing the honey for everyone to enjoy.

Thank you, LoloLando.

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If I have to dissect comments from this site, it seems that we are transforming our thoughts from merely idolizing the product (CHARICE)into protecting her and her talent for fear, it will not last long. And this is a reality in show business and even in sports. The likes of Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, The Beatles, Diego Maradona(soccer player from Argentina), they can’t sustain their popularity; indulged into various forms of pastimes; and even declaring themselve as more popular than J…s, until they met their fate. Most of the fans, I supposed, dread the day, CHARICE might follow the footsteps of those fallen personalities that is why they, we, are posting these reminders for managers of CHARICE to manage her well.

Comparing Charice with other known personalities in music business sometimes creates frictions. Truly, a fan, who invested some resources in support of an artist, will react vehemently when fans of other artists start this downgrading process, so avoid it.

My take on CHARICE is that, even without those original compositions for her, I could feel that she belongs to any music genre. On top of that,she could improve on the style of the original singer. And for the icing, she has a very strong memory,even discarding those idiot boards while singing.

To me, an ideal singer walks on an imaginary wide band. Meaning,he/she could sing low, medium and high, with the same intensity. An ordinary singer walks on tight rope, so tight that she could not improvise, going from one octave to another. This was how CHARICE was schooled: Jessa Zaragoza for baritone, her voice for medium, and her idols, Sarah and Regine for high notes. And she indulged in songs of international divas. How could one not fail to notice such powerful voice and not be intoxicated by it. You are not musically inclined if you fail to……..

And so it came to pass that the hive keeps on expanding in size as converts after converts were added to the swarm.

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Angela chill up…ur name say’s so….
everybody chill !!!!

back to basic comments:

The only song that really made me listen to Whitney is the
Greatest Love of All…her version was awesome…..Man !!!

I sure would luv to hear Charice belt this one….

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