50 Great Voices

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50 Great Voices
Canal: NPR podcasts
Por: National Public Radio
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Descripción del podcast de 50 Great Voices: Once a week throughout the year listen to profiles, hear the music and see photos of great singers from around the world. Join a conversation about beauty, power, craft and influence, and talk to NPR ... and the community about the singers you have heard.

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Meredith Monk: A Voice For All Time
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
01:59 min | hace 1 año
Reacting to the vocal acrobatics of 19th-century opera, Monk's vocal music draws inspiration from the clarity of medieval and folk traditions. The result is a sound that feels both ancient and new.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Camaron De La Isla: The Voice Of Flamenco
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
03:46 min | hace 1 año
Camaron De La Isla re-energized a centuries old flamenco tradition, leading the music into the 20th century and beyond. As he beg an his career, flamenco was still a connoisseur's music, hardly part of the popular Spanish mainstream, but Camaron would change that forever.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Camaron De La Isla: The Voice Of Flamenco
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 1 año
Camaron De La Isla re-energized a centuries old flamenco tradition, leading the music into the 20th century and beyond. As he beg an his career, flamenco was still a connoisseur's music, hardly part of the popular Spanish mainstream, but Camaron would change that forever.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Youssou N'Dour: The Voice Of Senegal
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
05:16 min | hace 1 año
Ever since he burst onto the scene in Dakar, Senegal, in the early 1970s at age 12, Youssou N'Dour has been a sensation -- a mus ical chameleon capable of a seductive whisper or a siren's cry.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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George Jones: The Voice Of Heartbreak
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
08:59 min | hace 1 año
Country music legend George Jones has made a career out of hard living. Decades of drinking, drug addiction, failed marriages and more all filter into his songs. At 79, he is not slowing down.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: The Voice Of Hawaii
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
01:15 min | hace 1 año
The late Hawaiian musician known best for his ukulele-backed rendition of "Over the Rainbow" was a man with a standout voice and t remendous size. At more than 6 feet tall and weighing close to 1,000 pounds, "IZ" died when he was only 38.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: The Voice Of Hawaii
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 1 año
The late Hawaiian musician known best for his ukulele-backed rendition of "Over the Rainbow" was a man with a standout voice and t remendous size. At more than 6 feet tall and weighing close to 1,000 pounds, "IZ" died when he was only 38.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Luther Vandross: The Velvet Voice
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
08:19 min | hace 1 año
The late soul singer's legendary voice has been called "flawless" and "as smooth as silk." It's been known to create an atmosphe re of pure romance: For many years, Vandross was the go-to singer for when you wanted to get in the mood.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Billie Holiday: Emotional Power Through Song
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:20 min | hace 1 año
Holiday became famous after she recorded "Strange Fruit," a 1939 protest song about lynchings of African-Americans. The hauntin g vocal offers a stark illustration of her greatest gift -- the ability to convey emotion.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Chavela Vargas: The Voice Of Triumph
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
03:25 min | hace 1 año
Vargas was born in Costa Rica, but has a voice tailor-made for singing Mexican rancheras, boleros and corridos. For many Mexicans , her versions of these songs are definitive. Even at 91, Vargas still possesses a voice that reflects struggle, defiance and ultimately triumph.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Chavela Vargas: The Voice Of Triumph
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
08:19 min | hace 1 año
Vargas was born in Costa Rica, but has a voice tailor-made for singing Mexican rancheras, boleros and corridos. For many Mexicans , her versions of these songs are definitive. Even at 91, Vargas still possesses a voice that reflects struggle, defiance and ultimately triumph.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Placido Domingo: The Spellbinding Voice Of A Titan Tenor
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 1 año
To find out just what makes Domingo so compelling as Otello, the warrior who suspects his wife has been unfaithful, we turn to s ome of his fans: singer and composer Rufus Wainwright, former music critic Tim Page and opera star Renee Fleming.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Buika: The Voice Of Freedom
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
08:20 min | hace 1 año
Born and raised on the Spanish island of Mallorca, Buika has a voice that radiates intensity, with a power that's hard to define. Whether she's singing flamenco, soul, electronica or the blues, she says she finally feels completely free to sing whatever she wants.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Celia Cruz: The Voice From Havana
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 1 año
The Cuban singer, known worldwide as the "Queen of Salsa," grew up in neighborhoods where music was always in the air. She travele d for 15 years with the Sonora Matancera orchestra and settled in Fort Lee, N.J., home base for a decades-long career.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Amalia Rodrigues: The Voice Of Extreme Expression
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
04:16 min | hace 1 año
With intense emotions in her voice, the great singer of fado music became the heart and soul of the Portuguese people.» E-Ma il This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Amalia Rodrigues: The Voice Of Extreme Expression
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
02:40 min | hace 1 año
With intense emotions in her voice, the great singer of fado music became the heart and soul of the Portuguese people.» E-Ma il This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Kitty Wells: The Queen Of Country Music
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:20 min | hace 1 año
Starting in the 1950s, Wells recorded hit after hit at a time when women didn't have hits in country music. When she performed, We lls delivered the goods with a country twang and a supple, powerful voice that reached right to the back of the house.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Howlin' Wolf: Booming Voice Of The Blues
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
03:09 min | hace 1 año
His name was Chester Arthur Burnett, but everyone called him Howlin' Wolf. He played harmonica, but some say he was the greatest b lues singer of all time. His unique voice mesmerized audiences and hugely influenced rock 'n' roll.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Howlin' Wolf: Booming Voice Of The Blues
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
08:19 min | hace 1 año
His name was Chester Arthur Burnett, but everyone called him Howlin' Wolf. He played harmonica, but some say he was the greatest b lues singer of all time. His unique voice mesmerized audiences and hugely influenced rock 'n' roll.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Mohammed Reza Shajarian: Protest Through Poetry
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 1 año
The Iranian singer is the country's most famous protest singer -- even though, strictly speaking, his songs don't directly denounc e the government at all.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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