24. "RE: I can think of many before her who didn't" In response to In response to 23
>Joni, Whitney, Lauryn.
Joni was never viewed purely as a "vocalist"...She was a lauded as a singer-songwriter and later on as a pure stylist...So it didn't really matter when her voice became a bit deeper...
Lauryn worked between the margins of hip-hop and soul, so even if her voice got a little rougher, it worked within the context of her sound...
But Whitney's voice was a shadow of its former self by the time she hit those drug abuse years...At times she sounded even shakier than Mariah ....
GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....