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Depends what you mean by "good singer".

Posted by:	sf 08:32 am EDT 03/31/14
In reply to:	So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer.... - Rangerette 01:28 am EDT 03/31/14

You can be a "good singer" - that is, sing in a way that moves people - without having a great voice. See, for example, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Marianne Faithfull, or even someone like Tyne Daly. I never quite bought the argument that Sally has to be a "bad" singer either, even though she's singing in a crappy little club - but she doesn't necessarily have to have the most wonderful voice. I still think the definitive Sally on record is Judi Dench, and she certainly doesn't have a singing voice that's conventionally pretty - but she does know how to put a number across. In that sense, she is a "good singer": via her singing voice, she communicates something that moves/entertains me.

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