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vocalsnoun
The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist
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vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music, Japanese music, and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal, and popular music styles such as pop, rock, and electronic dance music. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged, or improvised. It may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual as part of music education or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice. If practice is done regularly then the sounds can become clearer and stronger. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific musical genre, such as classical or rock, although there are singers with crossover success (singing in more than one genre). Professional singers usually take voice training provided by voice teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers
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Vocals
The musical performance role that the profession, "Singer" will usually provide to a band or ensemble. Vocals, as the name implies, is a singing role. A Singer who has a Vocals role, may also play the part of an instrument, but not always. The Vocals role in a band is sometimes further subdivided to either Lead vocals or Backing vocals, but is sometimes not always narrowly specified as such.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of vocals in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of vocals in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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It's such a meaningful song, so I tried to put all those things together, charlie's vocals are amazing, so it all came together and made sense.
I'll tell you how that happened. When I was a dancer, Monique Van Vooren had a nightclub act and she uses three guys as backup. She'd sing French and we would dance and provide vocals. She would introduce us at the end of the show and one night she said to me, 'You know, I don't really like ‘Ronnie.' I think you are more ‘Christopher.' Do you mind if I call you Christopher?" I said, "Call me anything you like, just don't call me late for lunch.
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Thank you for attending our show tonight in Dublin, we will see you in Cardiff and hopefully the vocals and sound will be much, much better... Pfft.
The president's angry facial expressions and raised voice didn't match the content of his speech. His words were offensive—praising himself for the 'biggest airlift in history'—and his body language and vocals told the true story: That this president was trying to defend the unforgiveable, the speech was poorly written because the goal of it was to take blame off the person, the commander-in-chief, and instead blame the Americans who were told the Taliban would never take control.
It's pretty true – the songs are being performed with ... with the things we would have overdubbed onto the records, we have got like double track vocals, we've got all sorts of guitar effects and so forth.
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