I for one never had any ability to lose but that doesn't hamper my butchering whatever I know the words to as long as the w:headphones windows are up.

assuming i’m listening to music in the car and not npr.

I used to have a voice, kind of comparable to Ann Wilson or Amy Lee. Not trying to brag, just that I had a pretty good voice. But, age and multiple respiratory infections (I have pretty bad asthma) have made my voice croaky bad.

My favorite to sing was Bohemian Rhapsody, and it makes me sad I can't sing it anymore.

Any Lee. To me, she is mentioned in the same conversation as Monet’s “Waterlilies”, Michelangelo’s “David”, and Jackson Pollocks “ Number 1 (Lavender Mist)”

Her voice, at the same time is Monet soft, Michelangelo elevating, and Pollock hard as rocks and ice.

An AMAZING talent.

I had a scholarship from the Caloosahatchee music foundation back in '81. Studied for years before that. But, I fell out of love with opera and started to party way too hard and got into punk rock and sang with a couple of bands. Yeah, I screwed up and didn't really follow my dreams.

Was it a screw up, or just your destiny?

I'm a nurse now for over 30 years. After I took care of my mother when she was dying, my father told me I made the right decision to pursue this course instead of performing. I just don't have the show-off type personality it takes to be a soloist. Even though I had the voice, I feel more comfortable in a chorus rather than as a soloist. So, probably destiny. I love being a nurse. Helping and healing makes me smile.

Keep singing too.

Sing and play air guitar and air drums….I look like an idiot, but I totally rock though. Clapton, Gilmore, Page….. can’t keep up. 😝🤙🏻

+ occasionally LOUD...

TIA...

I was in California. I sang along with Ricky Skaggs. Reagan was President. It went on for about an hour. To this day I don't understand why. It still haunts me. It won't happen again. I promise.

^ That could certainly refer to something else people do while in their cars alone.

and a lot of the time I see it as a cognitive test, I am happy to still know the all the words of a very old rock song!

This afternoon I sang to this one and I am neither a rambler nor a man.

If you heard me you'd understand.

I also sing high harmonies more often than the actual melody.
In my bands, if I wasn't singing the lead I was singing the high part, so lots of muscle memory with that.

I can carry a tune fairly well, but my range and volume are limited. I'm neither a full soprano or a full alto. I'm 3 half-steps shy of an alto's lowest note and a whole octave short of a soprano's highest note.

I'd love to be able to really belt out a song like Linda Ronstadt or Mama Cass.

So, I'm either a "sopralto" or a "altano."

Whether I'm singing along or not, if a song or orchestral composition is playing on my car radio when I pull into the garage, I have to listen until it's over. I can't bear to stop something I like before the final notes.

I can sing that!

Now I sing when I walk.

And don’t my neighbors know it!

I am a continual channel flipper, looking for something I like.

I'm always singing something when I'm cleaning the barn, even though asthma often tears my voice up.

Even though I have a horrible singing voice.

Find a recording of “Moonlight And Vodka” and listen to it. Chris de Burgh sings it in his plaintive tenor, but I like to sing it in my baritone voice, which has been described as ‘smoky’. (I don’t smoke.)

Makes for some entertaining driving…

BTW, I always like to see your posts and I also appreciate your inclusion of Lord Byron....doing your part to keep DU classy...

😀

is the only safe way for me to sing, for the sake of humanity and myself.

I have a singing voice and capacity for staying on tune that are well suited to pantomime.

At the top of my lungs and I don't have a good voice....