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Originally Posted by djtoast  The winner in this thread is a woman called Florence Foster Jenkins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins
She gave performances of operatic works to large crowds despite having very little notion of the concept of pitch.
Stick her name into limewire if you fancy a laugh; burn a cd of it if you have a mortal enemy. |
Great call - I didn't think anyone on AN would know Florence FJ.
My parents bought an album or 2 years and years ago for the comedy element. The woman was superb. She couldn't hold any tune let alone an operatic one, yet she carried on regardless.
Personally I admire her tenacity and beligerance. She wanted to sing so she did - even though she had absolutely no talent. Her records sold, people paid to watch her, so despite her inability to sing, she actually did OK out of trying.
There are plenty of talentless singers selling records now - the difference is, talented engineers and producers now have the technology to manipulate recordings to sounds reaonable. Florence didn't have that luxury and more credit to her because of that.
