Singers Who've Lost Their Voice

Chris Conley from Saves the Day was one of these, I think.

Re: Andy Bell. It’s not just the autotuning, it’s the way that he actually sings now - seems like something changed in his technique when he did the Pop Star to Opera Star TV show. Does make me a little sad to listen back to the earlier Erasure records and hear how good a voice he had.

I think Stipe's hitting an e4/f4 on "air". He struggles on the scale around A-C before getting back to being comfortable. Which feels like he's not getting a chance to breathe. One could say he's trying not to breathe.

literally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQLg5Aodjw

I looked at the source video expecting it to be some negligible thing that stupid youtube channel blew up into a thing but nah, he legit was nowhere near the mic and his voice came in at same volume. also I know what he sounded like 4 years before that clip was recorded and it...wasn't that good.

linda ronstadt, to degenerative palsy.

Aw :(

I mean, dude was always pitchy and inconsistent even in his prime, but this is....o_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tobKbYRCJOo

Linda Thompson has a new album that's entirely guest vocalists due to her dysphonia.

Phil Ochs!

"One night, Ochs was attacked and strangled by robbers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which damaged his vocal cords, causing a loss of the top three notes in his vocal range."

I ran across the final Demis Roussos album the other day, and by 2009 there was absolutely nothing left of his former semi-operatic voice, it's reduced to a sub-Joe Cocker rasp.

Also, it's quite something to bookend your 40-year career of sappy baroque balladry with a 9+ minute epic called "Who Gives A Fuck" (last track on his last album).

Wow.

Hoo boy @ Sebastian Bach