People with stutters can sing?
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March 21st, 2013
American idol is on my tv in the background.
Some Latin American guy with a great voice has just been singing a Beatles song.
After he’d finished, the judges were talking to him and he had one of the worst stutters I’ve ever heard. He really struggled to get his words out, yet could sing perfectly.
It’s not the first time I’ve come across this phenomenon either, but it always makes me wonder… Why is this the case?
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They don’t stutter when they sing. The two skills (singing and talking) use different parts of the brain.
A former coworker of mine said she grew up with a terrible stammer. Her father made her join a choir to help her overcome it. She had no difficulty singing, and in fact she had such a nice singing voice that she went on to perform for years with a well-known local chorus and their concert quartet.
By the time I knew her as an adult, there was no lingering sign of her former speech problems. She was not only fluent in social and business conversations but a very confident speaker before an audience.
What @marinelife said. Same reason people with any speech impediment can usually sing without one.
I’m assuming it’s the same reason people with accents kind of lose that accent when they sing. American Idol judge Keith Urban is a great example.
As a side note, I love Lazaro (the guy you mentioned) – he’s too friggin’ cute.
What about Carly Simon? Or Mel Tillis?
Two words, Gareth Gates…wtf happened to him by the way?
It’s debatable that he could sing, but he certainly had a stutter.
The two things are very different. Stuttering is a very strange thing in many terms. Some stutterers don’t stutter when they read aloud, some do, other don’t stutter when they act in a theater. There’s many different factors and every stutterer is different, but the above answers pretty much cover it.
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