I'm 62 years old, and song made an impact on me long before I went to school. I grew up, as we all do, so it's true to say that for the past 52 years I have been passionate about song My passion was saved when I accepted that I would never be a singer...
Rebecca is one of a dozen or so really impressive female singers, all genres lumped together, whom I can "play back in my head". No MP3, no stereo, nothing but the memory of a fantastic voice, a fantastic ability to demolish songs and put them back together her way, so many aspects of Rebecca's singing to engrave in my memory and recall at my leisure.
Just wait and see what will come of Rebecca's career when the respected songwriters who want to work with her, and the inspired songwriter that Rebecca herself is, will have provided her songs, for her alone to sing. She will do better than Dionne Warwick
, who only had the Bacharach and David writing for her until the Gibbs came along. Aretha Franklin
has had precious few songs written with only her in mind. (Let us think about Aretha for a few moments, and hope her health recovers.)I could easily write far more than anyone would be able to bear to read about Rebecca and where she is headed. Puerile, "smart" slogans and catch-phrases intended to belittle Rebecca Ferguson only belittle their authors. A great star has been revealed, and if you understand music in general and song in particular, whatever your personal tastes, you are witnessing something really special.
Rebecca Ferguson will not leave the building for a very long time.
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