50 Great Voices

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50 Great Voices
Canal: NPR podcasts
Por: National Public Radio
Ranking: 3528 - Ver evolución

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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Sezen Aksu: The Voice Of Istanbul
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:33 min | hace 2 años
A superstar in Turkey, Aksu is known throughout the Middle East and Europe. She's been a sexy pop star, but she's also reinvented herself throughout her career, selling millions of records in the process. Neva Grant recalls discovering Aksu's music for the first time.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Sezen Aksu: The Voice Of Istanbul
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
05:54 min | hace 2 años
A superstar in Turkey, Aksu is known throughout the Middle East and Europe. She's been a sexy pop star, but she's also reinvented herself throughout her career, selling millions of records in the process. Neva Grant recalls discovering Aksu's music for the first time.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Esma Redzepova: 'Queen Of The Gypsies'
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
03:10 min | hace 2 años
Some singers are one-hit wonders, while others make a few albums before fading away. Then there are those who stay popular for gen erations. In the former Yugoslavia, one woman has had more hits over more years than just about anyone else: Esma Redzepova, also known as "Queen of the Gypsies."» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Ella Fitzgerald: America's First Lady Of Song
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 2 años
In the 1930s and '40s, band singers were mostly blond, sophisticated and attractive. Ella Fitzgerald was awkward, gawky and even a bit chubby by comparison — in the words of one newspaper writer, "a big, light-colored gal." But could she sing.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Ella Fitzgerald: America's First Lady Of Song
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
01:28 min | hace 2 años
In the 1930s and '40s, band singers were mostly blond, sophisticated and attractive. Ella Fitzgerald was awkward, gawky and even a bit chubby by comparison — in the words of one newspaper writer, "a big, light-colored gal." But could she sing.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Jackie Wilson: The Singer And The Showman
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
04:18 min | hace 2 años
Jackie Wilson was a singer's singer – admired by everyone from Elvis Presley to Van Morrison to Michael Jackson. His awe-inspiri ng falsetto powered 15 Top 10 R&B hits. But his stage show could make your jaw drop.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Jackie Wilson: The Singer And The Showman
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
06:19 min | hace 2 años
Jackie Wilson was a singer's singer — admired by everyone from Elvis Presley to Van Morrison to Michael Jackson. His awe-ins piring falsetto powered 15 Top 10 R&B hits. But his stage show could make your jaw drop.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Umm Kulthum: 'The Lady' Of Cairo
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:18 min | hace 2 años
Umm Kulthum's legendary concerts were broadcast live from Cairo, on the first Thursday of each month from the 1930s to the early ' 70s. The Arab world's buzz and bustle stopped, from Medina to Marrakesh, from Jeddah to Jerusalem. Shops closed. Families gathered to listen for four, five, even six hours of rapture.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Elis Regina: The Feeling Between The Notes
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
05:05 min | hace 2 años
In a way, she's similar to iconic figures such as Janis Joplin or Billie Holiday — singers whose recordings define not just a style, but a way of being. Today, young performers talk about being intimidated when they attempt songs Regina made famous. Her work mulls the big questions of life and romance, one magnificent half-step at a time.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Asha Bhosle: The Voice Of Bollywood And More
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 2 años
Bhosle has recorded 12,000 songs and is featured on the soundtracks of more than 800 films. Her voice is easily recognized by a b illion people in South Asia and around the world. Her influence has extended far beyond India, too: She's recorded with the boy band Red Code, the contemporary classical Kronos Quartet and even pop star Boy George.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Voice Of Pakistan
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
06:09 min | hace 2 años
With his intense stage presence and relentless drive to improve, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan single-handedly brought Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, to the West and the non-Muslim world. In the process, he influenced an unlikely array of music around the world.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Maria Callas: Voice Of Perfect Imperfection
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:19 min | hace 2 años
The late, great opera diva's sound could sometimes be hollow and dark, sometimes shrill, sometimes gorgeous. Callas continues to t hrill and divide audiences with her distinctive voice and the raw intensity she put into it.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Mahalia Jackson: Voice Of The Civil Rights Movement
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
06:07 min | hace 2 años
The gospel singer was born about 100 years ago in New Orleans, and when she was 16, she traveled the well-worn path up the Mississ ippi to Chicago. Beginning in the 1940s, she was one of the first singers to take gospel out of the church, drawing white audiences and selling millions of records. In the process, she inspired generations of singers.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Ahmad Zahir: The Voice Of The Golden Years
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
07:20 min | hace 2 años
Zahir was a showman who, appropriately enough, once recorded an Elvis tune; just like Elvis, the Afghan singer kept his fan base f or decades after he died in the 1970s. When you hear his story, you learn a lot about how people relate to music, and you learn even more about Afghanistan.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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Iggy Pop: The Voice As Weapon
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
06:18 min | hace 2 años
His isn't the first name you'd expect to see on a list of great voices. But when you think of voice in the broadest sense of the w ord — a person communicating an idea with an audience — then Iggy Pop more than holds his own. He's proved that a voice doesn't have to charm or seduce someone; it can provoke. A vocal can be dangerous.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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A Behind-The-Scenes Look At NPR's '50 Great Voices'
En el Podcast  50 Great Voices  en  Blues y Jazz
06:38 min | hace 2 años
Over the next year, we'll reveal profiles of 50 singers who've made their mark internationally and across recorded history. But fi rst, here's an explanation of how we arrived at the 50 who will make the list.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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