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Whitney Houston is alive

In reply to FanAttick

Sounded better than Whitney............... by a mile or two.


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In reply to Ewart

Blasphemer!!!

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In reply to dale_staple

I take it you did not hear her.


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damn what a porker!!!

In reply to Larr Pullo

You prefer Kruh Kum Kum?

In reply to Larr Pullo

She put on a bit, yes.....



Seemed to help the voice, though.




What a woman sound good!


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Voluptuous is the word !

In reply to Ewart

Separation anxiety can lead to binge eating

well sang!!

well sang!!

In reply to Ewart

Mr.Walters .......with all due respect, sir .....yuh mussi fall dung and lick yuh head

She does not have Whitney's power or throaty, sultry tone. Tessanne can raass sing, no doubt, but she not quite in Whitney's class.

NFW ....!

None the less she sounds amazing.

Memorial Day. A day we remember that countries are unable to put aside petty differences instead send its people to die for the cause.

Civilization has a long way to go.

In reply to JohnBull

Tek winnings, JB. Tek winnings!

Never claimed any of that.


Nevertheless...

...as a choral singer myself for the better part of 60 years, I believe I might persuade you that there are other qualities in Tessanne's performance of that song besides the three in which you say Whitney is unassailable.


And, by the way. Is only peeps I respect that I engage with like this. So yuh better feel glad and respected!!



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In reply to JohnBull


PS: No. At my age, falling down is something I avoid strenuously. So likking de head is not on the cards.




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In reply to Larr Pullo

From this, I take it you are saying you would abstain.....





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In reply to cricketmad

You got it!


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In reply to Curtis


sung.






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In reply to Larr Pullo

Man look.

Dat is one SEXY as rass woman. I not even getting into de vocal talent.

In reply to Cheeks

I wonder why she and her hubby couldn't work things out. Ah well.....

In reply to Cheeks


Yuhzimme!!


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In reply to Ewart

I heard it. It was superb...but Whitney is still numero uno. Whitney's voice just has a different quality to it that Tessannes does not. Its like Barbara Streisand's voice is just sooooo different from any of her contemporaries. Just like you would know Aretha Franklin from Patti LaBelle, from Diana Ross etc...

In reply to Cheeks

As DuttyBerry wud say dat is a serious piece of chunkiness dere. Built for luxury

In reply to dale_staple

Stipulated. You would not expect it to be the same.


You might look at it like this. Consider a Number 11 mango. A sweet wormless Number 11 mango. Strong, vibrant, a bit tart... but sweet.

And then consider a trip to St Elizabeth and you get to sink your teeth into a Robin mango.

Or back in Kingston, you receive a big ripe St. Julian mango that has been cooled in the refrigerator.

Yuzimme!




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In reply to Ewart

Sounds like you into the mango season!

In reply to bimbo





And what better season could there be?





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In reply to Maispwi

Man...I not even trying to segregate and categorize the attributes. What I do know is dat di whole package is amazing.

Dat woman just gats my numbah.

I only hope my missus doesn't check in here. Well actually...she already knows I gats a major crush there.

In reply to Cheeks


Word.




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In reply to Ewart

Julie Mango

In reply to FanAttick




Indeed! There is in her voice, an appealing, impeccable quality of tenderness that is not evident in any of the offerings of "that other singer," a natal tenderness that is also visually and enticingly proclaimed in her oh so invitingly eloquent body movements.

A sweet, sweet Julie mango indeed!




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The Chinese as an ethnic Jamaican group have done a lot for the country but much of that was/is in music. Byron Lee was just the tip of the Chineyberg...


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In reply to Ewart

Agreed

In reply to FanAttick

Ahhh... Mr. Foster. Right colour too! Anyway, here's some stuff:

As a sort of crowning touch, the Chinese got involved in music. An early record speaks of the Chee Kung Tung Orchestra that was formed in 1945 and performed in Cantonese operas.

Later they were pioneers of ska, rock-steady and reggae music – as musicians, singers, band-leaders, record producers and promoters.

Bob Marley’s first records as well as Jimmy Cliff’s were produced by Leslie Kong and so was Desmond Dekker’s Israelite.

Randy Chin quickly became a big name, in Kingston and Brooklyn, producing and selling records, and four bands – the Mighty Vikings, Byron Lee and his Dragonnaires, the Vagabonds and the Kes Chin band – became very popular in a short time.

So did the legendary guitarist Ernest Ranglin who is half Chinese.

Chinese musicians of the 21st century include the reggae violinist par excellence Jessica Yap and internationally known vocalist Tessanne Chin.

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In reply to Ewart

Mr Walters ... don't leave out the nicest one of them all ... the one so intoxicatingly sweet and delicious that it is only necessary to bite the bottom and luxuriate in the juice ......the one with the colour of harvest gold, speckled with black ......

I know you know its name, Mr Walters ......doubtlessly you do.

In reply to JohnBull

I was saving dat one for mi bam-bye.







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In reply to Ewart

That is the greatest of them all. Hurricane Ivan took out all 6 in my yard

In reply to bimbo

Please accept my most sincere sympathies.




But, on the other hand, yuh mean tuh seh yuh no plant dem back yet? What year was Ivan?



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The period of the Chinese expansion in Jamaica in the 1950s and 60s also coincided with the popularisation of the transistor.

This meant that many more people now had the ability to purchase radios since they were by then much cheaper and some were small enough to be carried in a pocket.

What is more, most Chinese establishments sold them, not just the appliance stores.

A farmer in his field in the hills of Saint Mary now could listen to the entire cricket match as he reaped his yams. The proliferation of radios was a precursor to the expansion of radio stations as the 20th Century came to a close.

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In reply to JohnBull
The Rabalacian had to be kidding.

In reply to Wally-1




But, seriously Wally, did you hear her? Did you hear the soft swaying of alluring hips oozing from those sung words?

No megaton blasting, no, not this one. Not even the power of Duke Reid signing on Treasure Isle Time on a Saturday afternoon with Sil Austin's My Mother's Eyes.

No, this one is the silken smoothness of a wafted wind that is more a breeze than a wind. The kind of thing that created the Limacol logo: The freshness of a breeze in a Bottle.

Yuhzimme!

PS. I know you youngsters don't know either Duke Reid or Sil Austin. Check them out!




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In reply to Ewart

This has stopped being a tesanne chin thread. LOL.

In reply to dale_staple

That was/is Tessanne! (even if you do omit one of the esses!)




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In reply to Larr Pullo

Sour grapes!!!





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