Round Three: Breakfast in D-sharp v 'S (464 views)

[Steve]

This is Breakfast in D-sharp v 'S in Round Three of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 GMT Time Saturday, October 29 to vote. October 30 is the Results Day.

The categories for this round are:
1. Best Usage of Vibrato: Singing that favours tremolo of the voice in order to add, for example, emotion, richness or gravitas to the performance.
2. Most Pleasant Tone: Affecting a satisfying tone in order to sound pleasing to the ears in one way or another.

The teams are free to post their clips, voting commences as soon as they have.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 3

[Breakfast in D-sharp]

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{Best Use of Vibrato}
My team comprises 3 musical theatre stars and I voted for this category instead of diction. Here's why:
Elaine Paige - Mon Dieu (My God) 1:39-3:26

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{Most Pleasant Tone}Full disclosure here: this is a live-from-home show where Michael Cavanaugh takes a few requests from his online audience, and I was one of multiple viewers who requested God Gave Me a Sunrise, but this was last year and I promise I didn't do it with the clip-off in mind (and it's not his only available performance of this song; I just thought this was one particularly lovely and probably the best for the category).
56:41-58:40

['S]

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{Best Usage of Vibrato - Cass Elliot}2:06 to end. Cass zhooshes up this song with her signature vocal chops, yes. We got the all-important doses of vibrato throughout, especially prominent on the finale :relieved:

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{Most Pleasant Tone - Teresa Teng}2:30 to end. Covering an obscure Chinese ballad from 1942 called 'Her Face Is Like a Peach Blossom'. Her light tone with those little trills and quivers are as pleasant as any peach blossom uwu 🌸