I was blessed to see Lalah on Oct. 13, 2013 in Oakland CA (Sundays in The Redwoods). I'm also grateful that I was able to buy a copy of Where It All Begins from her mother.
Some people must be cherished in life period. Here's great examples every time I see them... for a multitude of reasons. Big love & respect from London 💯
I saw Lalah at the Warner Theatre in DC, Musiq Soulchild was also the bill. I could not sit still when Lalah opened her mouth. She literally is another world!
First time i saw the Snark's clip, apart from being taken away on that interval you sang, was , the expression of joy coming from the rest of the band at that moment. One of those moments that we wish we could nail on a regular basis.
Mongolian throat singers I believe, opps you just mentioned this……. With that said I did see Donny Hathaway at Watts Club Mozambique in 1979. It was intense and highly soulful.
It's God-Given...and we ALL know that can't be replicated without Him being involved in the mix...WOW...It sounds like 2 voices are singing out of one vocal chord
I really enjoyed watching Mr. Robert Glasper on the R&B Money podcast. *Super first grade* Im glad he has his own show because I love listening to underrated artists. Of course, I love Ms. Hathaway 🤎
She sang a song that so reminded me of her Daddy that my throat choked and I had to fight back tears.... but watching ya'll trying to Rashaan Roland Kirk ya'lls vocals like Ms. Hathaway can is crackin me up!
Lalah on 'Something' must be pretty legendary in music circles by now. I always enjoy seeing the way Sput and the others are so in awe and can hardly contain themselves when she does her amazing self harmonising. :D
Love the "lewk" Lalah!: hair, nails, "jewrees"😍 (in my Sylvester voice, lol). digging that Robert referenced the African connection ... it's DNA dangit! And um ... why say either/or and not both/and in the ancestor v. alien? ... "take it to the cosmos!"😄 (in my Tom Browne voice). But seriously, enjoyed this.
Oh yeaah! 'Dipliphonia', the voice produces two sounds of different pitch; overtone singing. To coin a word, 'Tripliphonia', three pitches produced at once. That's some self harmonizing! Checkout 'Tuvan throat singing' for a deep dive.
So it involves incomplete vocal closure. I actually was able to do something similar (a "train noise") after her explanation. It only does more than one note for me very low in my head voice, which sort of makes sense because lower pitches mean "looser" vocal chords.
I can do something similar but on a brass instrument, I think of buzzing two separate pitches one with my upper lip and one with my lower and sometimes a third note comes out if I spread the pitches out further apart. I can only change notes with in the overtime series I’m on and at one point I was able to control it and play a blues with it it’s been over a decade and I didn’t keep up with the practice of it I can kinda do it still the singing of much more impressive though
