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I'm a trained singer, baritone Vedder-like voice and I can comfortably sing Jerry's voice in every song and never felt I was going out of my tessitura. Are you sure he's a tenor?

Cumtax wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:42 pm I'm a trained singer, baritone Vedder-like voice and I can comfortably sing Jerry's voice in every song and never felt I was going out of my tessitura. Are you sure he's a tenor?

I've never heard it described differently. E.g, in Time Magazine's obituary, "To the lyrics Garcia lent humanity with his frail tenor." https://time.com/3833649/jerry-garcia-the-trip-ends/

Jon S. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:56 pm

Cumtax wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:42 pm I'm a trained singer, baritone Vedder-like voice and I can comfortably sing Jerry's voice in every song and never felt I was going out of my tessitura. Are you sure he's a tenor?

I've never heard it described differently. E.g, in Time Magazine's obituary, "To the lyrics Garcia lent humanity with his frail tenor." https://time.com/3833649/jerry-garcia-the-trip-ends/

What a beautiful sentence.