falsetto
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The author believes this may have been his first point of contact with falsetto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But he’s just singing better than ever — the falsetto wouldn’t hide flaws, it would just emphasize them.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Jealous Lover” is a spacious, soul-inflected number in the vein of “Beast of Burden” that allows Mr. Jagger to indulge his Curtis Mayfield-style falsetto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Bettan delivers his song, a lovestruck ballad called Michelle, with sincerity and passion, nimbly moving into his falsetto over a mix of electronic beats and Middle Eastern instrumentation.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Toward midnight, coyotes on the western mesa sang their falsetto tunes and were answered.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Somewhat obscured at the time by the hairy chests and falsettos of their disco peak was the enduring brilliance of Gibb’s songwriting.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
The angelic falsettos of The Bee Gees – brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb – give us and the song a lift — especially when the word "Alive" is stretched out enough to touch Heaven.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022
Sasfy added, “The style is clear — male passion and pain made real by exaggerated timing, breathless gasps, resounding basso profundo, swooping falsettos and nervous yelps.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2022
He began yowling along, tacking his versions of Jackson’s famous grunts and falsettos into the space between each phrase: “If they say why, why, tell ’em that it’s human nature!
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
It was the most cracked and venerable pipe that ever tickled the throat of old age, a mingling of wailing falsettos and of hollow gasping growls, the whole very weak.
From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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