![]() Tom Waits is a Grammy award-winning musician who has performed with the Dalai Lama at a peace concert. ![]() ![]() Here is a completely unscientific list of five of the weirdest, most distinctive and undeniably great singers in popular music. Many influential singers of the past century didn’t follow the “good vocalist" rule book-they knew the rules but achieved greatness by breaking them and pushing popular music out of its comfort zone of pretty voice and melodious harmonies. Great artistes are great not because they thrill us with form, but because they captivate us with the substance of what they’re trying to say. This sort of thinking betrays an awful underlying assumption about music-that creativity and inspiration can be plotted on some sort of “artistry" graph that music can be explained like gravity and that great music is, after all, nothing more than the sum of its parts. This is an intriguing bit of information about the artiste, who died in 1991, and would have remained unremarkable if it hadn’t been picked up by a bunch of publications that ran articles with headlines like “Scientists explain why Freddie Mercury was such a good singer" and “Freddie Mercury Scientifically Proven to Be Awesome". ![]()
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