People are trying to define what it is about Edith Piaf. The movie La Vie en Rose is bringing Edith Piaf to the attention of many for the first time. The critics on RottenTomatoes called her voice "a soaring deep-throated voice that came to symbolize a certain kind [how French] of tenacious humanity, a willingness to go on no matter what the odds."
Jazz buff Maureen Murray talked about someone singing who had "been there."
Watch Odette, now 77 years old, when she starts to talk about if she had listened to her mother ...
We can save ourselves some grief (and difficult first-hand experience) by listening to "the voice of experience." And I think when we hear it, we know it. This is the essence of coaching.
The person who posted this video wrote: And before Janis Joplin was singing Down on Me, there was Odetta in 1959 recording it on vinyl for Janis to take it from. There was Odetta soulfully growling Poor Little Jesus and singing Masters of War with force and conviction even beyond Dylan's. "When I was a young girl" is another folk classic I first heard onthe LP Folksy Nina (Simone) . Every 60's folk singer owes a debt to Odetta. Thanks for concert.
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