And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.
In the past, my voice was my enemy.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
As I got older, my voice got better.
My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice.