Story time! I had the Dk64 stream playing in my truck yesterday and at one point @miracleofsound was on and asked folks who their favorite Irish musicians were (fishing for compliments, Gav?). My mind went immediately to an artist I found when I was in the middle of coming out.
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So I had a kinda deep voice. Like capable of decent Michael Clarke Duncan and James Earl Jones impressions DEEP. Y'all might have noticed if you've earholed my YouTube channel that I'm no longer cursed with that affliction. I didn't ever have vocal surgery.
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I needed help finding my own voice. I've always had a decent ear for impressions, so instead of going the vocal cord surgery route, I dove into Rock Band 2 hunting for a woman whose voice I could get close to. That woman wound up being
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I bought her Ubeautiful album and set to work trying to get as close as I could. I didn't wind up that close (I sure as hell can't sing like her), but trying to get close to her taught me how to hold my voice in what is now my natural range.
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She also had several songs on that album that a sad closeted trans girl could *really* latch on to (Thinking Out Loud is my dysphoria anthem), so it's been among my favorites for over a decade now.
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@miracleofsound had made me realize how long it's been since I listened to her, so tonight I told Alexa to play@lesleyroyreal and SURPRISE she released new songs while I've been off trucking around the USA, so HAPPY BELATED NEW LESLEY ROY SONGS DAY! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!pic.twitter.com/yPPs73UO392 replies 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread
Fun fact: Lesley & I were once on the same indie record label for a while 
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I love weird little coincidences like that, it really reinforces how absolutely tiny the world really is. Like six degrees of Kevin Bacon but it's everyone on the planet to everyone else, it's fantastic
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