Female Singer Needed

Ridgewood NY

Description

Be on key with a real set of pipes and an interesting vocal texture that gets attention and career oriented, serious, dedicated and wants to collaborate, record, tour. However, I am not looking for mediocre songwriters; the craft has taken a nosedive and musicians perceive just about anything as a song. If your songwriting and music production is gathering dust on the usual upload sites then I don't need it in this band startup. If that's a deal breaker for you, then it's fine by me. After listening to thousands of demos over the recent course of time I can assure you that most musicians overestimate their songwriting ability and are creatively crippled by a lack of objectivity. But don't take my word for it; contact a top level industry record exec, producer or A&R rep and ask them about what I just stated. So what remains in regard to collaboration here? If you have a gift for melody and can converge it to work with the various idioms and chord progressions and get the vibe right then collaboration may work out very well. The upshot here is: excellent music is already in the pipeline, great players on standby wanting to get to work, we're stuck until we can find someone who is set on doing vocals, and a beginner or intermediate songwriter who is turning out dated or generic music will not be a good fit. A big league salable sound is in the works. Anything diminishing that is not on the table. Vocals are a lot of work and when the attention to, and maintenance of singing skills is divided by competing endeavors (songwriting, playing an instrument, learning recording, wanting to be the band producer and A&R director and everything else) the singing goes downhill, every time, so I'm not going down that road. The players I've recruited expect the writing to be on the level that I presented to them. If the quality drops because I have to loosely emulate a democracy to appease somebody else then they will go elsewhere. That is the big picture. I am jockeying five or six horses at once. Back to singing issues now, if you've made it this far. I require a singer to know what idioms they are working in and develop a style, song by song; in some instances it is necessary to get to the outer fringe of radio friendly. Other times not. We're not doing ukulele or acoustic stuff that's for sure. Bel Canto, Broadway Theater style vocals with tons of vibrato are definitely the wrong approach here. If you can't turn off a nonstop vibrato please pass on this; it's not the big band era anymore and the vibrato thing is out of date for rocky pop type music ever since The Beatles. Anyone responding must have pitch stability with a real set of pipes and an interesting vocal texture that gets attention and have lyric interpretation skills. Structured, consistent, ongoing voice and singing training and some basic performance training--acting, improv, voice over, would be a big plus here; the dabblers and amateurs I've heard from on CL haven't had enough experience or consistent practice.