* The Phoenix ( Lyfe Jennings album ), the American R & B singer's second studio album

The album was regarded as the singer's least commercially successful album, until the release of her fourth studio album, Make a Scene, which only reached # 33.

After a brief introductory tour overseas with Schlitt singing the Volz classics, Petra entered the studio to record the singer's first album with the band.

Frustrated at being at the studio for a prolonged period that day, Yorke " threw a wobbly " in his own description, after which Leckie sent the rest of the band away while Yorke recorded a guide track for " Fake Plastic Trees " featuring only guitar and the singer's vocals.

Trustkill violated the band's contract by letting them enter the studio in March 2008 and only funding less than 25 % of the recording costs ; the rest was paid via loans from the lead singer's father and the band's management.

Purportedly recorded at Marvin's Room, the singer's new recording studio in Los Angeles, Marvin also reportedly recorded the song while lying on his back of his sofa according to Ware, who said that he couldn't see Gaye at first but then discovered a laid-back Marvin delivering the song in his trademark tenor vocals.

* Imogen Heap's album iMegaphone has a title that is an anagram of the singer's name.

** Richard Butler ( album ), the singer's self-titled album released in 2006

** Madonna ( album ), the singer's self-titled first album

Other McCartney songs on the album included " What You're Doing ", which implored the singer's girlfriend to " stop your lying ".

In his book, Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye, author and music writer Michael Eric Dyson elaborated that the album was " unmistakably a work of romantic and erotic tribute " to Hunter and that the singer's obsession with Hunter was " nearly palpable in the sensual textures that are the album's aural and lyrical signature ".

In addition, Odadjian is a popular DJ in the LA area, taking part in such events as the " Rock / DJ Explosion " on March 2, 2001 at The Roxy in Hollywood, CA and collaborating with System of a Down bandmate Serj Tankian on Serart, the singer's collaboration album with multitalented Armenian musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan.

" Freshman " and " sophomore " are sometimes used figuratively, almost exclusively in the United States, to refer to a first or second effort (" the singer's sophomore album "), or to a politician's first or second term in office (" freshman senator ") or an athlete's first or second year on a professional sports team.

The album also included a re-interpretation of The Delfonics ' " Ready or Not Here I Come ( Can't Hide From Love )" in their hit single, " Ready or Not ", which featured a prominent sample of Enya's " Boadicea " without the singer's permission.

The album was a hit and cemented the singer's ability to tacke any kind of music.

Featuring production by Stargate, Ne-Yo, and Polow da Don, it was released in March 2010 and garnered a generally response by critics, who perceived its sound as " a return to the mid -' 1990s heyday " of contemporary R & B, The album debuted atop on Billboards Top R & B / Hip-Hop albums chart, and number two on the U. S. Billboard 200 with opening week sales of 184, 000 copies, becoming the singer's second highest-charting debut since 2003's After the Storm.

Also in 1994 the singer's debut album Laura Voutilainen was released selling in excess of 120, 000 units ; Voutilainen was consequently honored as Finland's top female vocalist with the Emma Award for 1994, an honor she again earned for the year 1996.

She also sang a duet with Ann Wilson on the Heart singer's solo album Hope & Glory covering the Lucinda Williams song " Jackson ".

Although a 1972 album for Warner Brothers was promising, the singer's potential seemed to wither.

The singer's self-titled debut album Josh Groban was released on November 20, 2001.

A video featuring a snippet of another song from the album, " Snow ", is available to watch on the singer's YouTube channel and is currently streaming on her official Web site.

In the singer's native Ireland, the album debuted at number two.

In late 1992, she released the remix album Dance Remixes, a two-disc set containing 14 remixes of the singer's greatest dance hits plus a new song: the single " Que mon cœur lâche ".

* Ray Wylie Hubbard mentions both Tempest Storm and Little Egypt in the title track of his album Snake Farm when discussing the singer's girlfriend Ramona who works at a reptile house.

Produced by ex-Boomtown Rats bassist Pete Briquette, the album was commercially successful ( certified double-platinum in just over a month ) but the singer's feeble, often out-of-tune vocals caused some negative reviews.

The Up Escalator would prove to be Parker's last album with the Rumour, although guitarist Brinsley Schwarz would reunite with Parker in 1983 and play on most of the singer's albums through the decade's end.

`` La Gioconda '', like it or not, is a singer's opera.

The Sega Saturn also has a " mute vocals " feature that is based on the same principle and is also able to adjust the pitch of the song to match the singer's vocal range.

Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.

The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singer's Formant, which has been shown to be a resonance added to the normal resonances of the vocal tract above the frequency range of most instruments and so enables the singer's voice to carry better over musical accompaniment.

Although many modern listeners believe that the premier song about soul-selling at a crossroads is " Cross Road Blues " by Robert Johnson, the song may be a description of standing at a cross roads and trying to " flag a ride " or hitch-hike ; the sense of foreboding coming from the singer's apprehension of finding himself, a young black man in the 1920s deep south, alone after dark and at the mercy of passing motorists.

There is another kind of vibrato-linked fault that can afflict the voices of operatic artists, especially aging ones — namely the slow, often irregular wobble produced when the singer's vibrato has loosened from the effects of forcing, over-parting, or the sheer wear and tear on the body caused by the stresses of a long stage career.

A singer's tessitura is where the voice has the best timbre, easy volume, and most comfort.

Within classical solo singing, however, a person is classified as a tenor through the identification of several vocal traits, including range, vocal timbre, vocal weight, vocal tessitura, vocal resonance, and vocal transition points ( lifts or " passaggio ") within the singer's voice.

The song's chorus recounts, " Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you " equating the singer's longing to how much " Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor " which is " an awful lot, girl ".

This song seems to be about the singer's sexual prowess, as he woos a woman who is uncaring and cruel.

The singer's character takes the position that any oppression is only temporary, and will eventually and inevitably be destroyed by Mother Nature.

This is a love song, in which the singer's character describes his former girl, a beautiful woman who could always " drive the fellas wild.

Like Crosby, Paul and Ford used the now-ubiquitous recording technique known as close miking, where the microphone is less than from the singer's mouth.

This takes considerable dramatic licence with history, emphasising the importance of Farinelli's brother and reducing Porpora's role, while Handel becomes an antagonist ; the singer's time in Spain is ignored almost entirely.

* Al Cernick is signed to Columbia by Mitch Miller, who changes the singer's name to Guy Mitchell.

Such pedagogists teach that the head register is a vocal technique used in singing to describe the resonance felt in the singer's head.

The role of the accompanist playing the melody-producing instrument is to provide continuity when the singer pauses for breath, using small variations of the singer's phrases or parts thereof.

In Lady Gaga's music video " Paparazzi ( Explicit )" by Johnas Akerlund there is a scene in which a man is licking the singer's black high heeled pump.

Since an instrument must match the singer's range, much Cajun singing is sung in the singer's upper range.