{"id":10929,"date":"2013-05-01T07:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2013-05-01T07:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:10:54","slug":"list-my-favorite-voices-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/list-my-favorite-voices-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"LIST: MY FAVORITE VOICES OF ALL-TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MY FAVORITE VOICES OF ALL-TIME<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I was sitting in the audience on opening night of <em>One Night With Janis Joplin<\/em> at the Pasadena Playhouse, I was thinking of how Adam Lambert&#8217;s incredible talent has ruined me for just about any other singer.  The star of that musical, channeling Janis, was wonderful, but her co-star,  who played a few old-time blues singers, did nothing for me, though the audience went wild for her.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10935\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Lambert-song-3-closeup.jpg\" title=\"Adam Lambert song 3 closeup\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10935\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10935\" title=\"Adam Lambert song 3 closeup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Lambert-song-3-closeup-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Lambert.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And I realized that since I first heard Adam sing in person in 2004, really no one else does it for me anymore.  As a matter for fact, the third time I heard him, when I hadn&#8217;t seen him for a few years and didn&#8217;t recognize him, so his performance of <em>I&#8217;m Changing<\/em> from <em>Dreamgirls<\/em> was a surprise to me, was so much of a game-changer that I told him afterwards that it was a religious experience!  (He&#8217;s so adorable that he just laughed and told me I&#8217;m so funny.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I started trying to conjure up the other voices I&#8217;ve loved through the years, and I realized that, truly, all of them <em>preceded<\/em> Adam!  Every single one.  But their voices are all amazing, and they really touch my soul.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s that super-short list of my favorite voices of all time, in order:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Lambert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sammy Davis, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnny Mathis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Holliday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Short<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hugh Jackman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clay Aiken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patti LaBelle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ray Buktenica<\/strong> (If you&#8217;re not familiar with that name, he&#8217;s mainly a televison and movie actor who&#8217;s also done professional musicals, and my soul gets soothed every time I hear him sing. I wish it were more often.)<\/p>\n<p>I know that Martin Short is a surprise on the list, but listen to him sometime.  I love that guy&#8217;s voice!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, what singers do it for <em>you<\/em>?  Please feel free to share in the Comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY FAVORITE VOICES OF ALL-TIME &nbsp; As I was sitting in the audience on opening night of One Night With Janis Joplin at the Pasadena Playhouse, I was thinking of how Adam Lambert&#8217;s incredible talent has ruined me for just about any other singer. The star of that musical, channeling Janis, was wonderful, but her<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/list-my-favorite-voices-of-all-time\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}