Those reality television shows such as America's Got Talent are very disconcerting to me. They are full of unconvincing spontaneity. There is exaggeration by the judges with wild reactions. They purposely interject and disrupt with their amplified comments. They "mime" negative or positive reviews and reactions during the performance.
There are articles covering how fake the show is: not checking contestant's backstories for accuracy, that the audience doesn't cheer - the 'planted audience members' cheer, and so on. This is a continuing complaint about most reality shows - that they are faked in various ways.
Quora has an entry for how faked is this show. It is: How real is America's Got Talent? It has 1,300 answers and 3,200 answer views. That number of people engaged explains a great deal about the cynicism and disdain for these shows, matched by compelling interest.
A friend sent a youtube video of Marcelito Pomoy, a Filipino singer. It is his appearance on America's Got Talent. It is a great video for all the reasons above - the cheering, the judge's reactions, and so on. What is special is that he is known for his ability to sing both tenor and soprano beautifully - so he sang a duet by himself. He won on Filipino version of the show. The "audition" on America's Got Talent is what is featured in this youtube video HERE. For most of us who sing a small vocal range, if we can sing at all, it is a transfixing performance. He has such a pretty female voice and such a deep male voice.
One of the songs he sang in the competition was Queen's We are the Champions. Freddie Mercury was a singer with a large vocal range: from bass low F to soprano high F. There has been much analysis of his voice, including scientific research. One of the findings was this: "What they discovered was that he likely employed subharmonics, a singing style where the ventricular folds vibrate along with the vocal folds. Most humans never speak or sing with their ventricular folds unless they’re Tuvan throat singers, so the fact that this popular rock vocalist was probably dealing with subharmonics is pretty incredible."
In terms of the greatest vocal range of all times - it is 10 octaves, achieved by Tim Storms in Branson, Missouri, August 2008. You can look at singers' vocal ranges HERE. Lots of familiar names in the list. You can look by vocal range, highest notes, and lowest notes. I don't see Pomoy on the list, but this list is famous pop/rock singers.
The amusing fact in his biography on his website is that he was discovered "while doing poultry work". How curious a fact.
We turn to winter flowers and fruits for our photos today.
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