It's really struck me how today and really anytime in the last 30 to 40 years if you were brave enough to stand up and crown out a song whether you were good or not as people like Bob Dylan and proved it was a ticket to wealth and fame beyond imagination. Yet if you lived in the 1800s one of the most commonly held skills among say young women was specifically cultivated in every young woman was taught to sing well and usually could play an instrument as well. So we think of it now as a rare thing but it actually isn't it's just been drummed into our brain that most people aren't good singers and a very few people are great singers and worthy of tons of praise Fame and money.
The other aspect of that is even before Auto-Tune which hit the market back with the Celine Dion and Cher singing a song or two 10 or so years ago performers even live were helped so much by electronics that people would be shocked to know that they could probably sing as well as a lot of the performers they thought had incredible voices. The lead singer for journey is a perfect example. Steve perry. I had the chance to hear his raw voice from a live concert in his production van which followed the band around. Even back in the mid 80s and their heyday they could make his voice sound incrediblely volumetric and resonant. In actual fact it wasn't. If you ask anybody they say he had an amazing voice but if they heard the wrong track they think they could sing as well as he could and 50% of the people could.
I would encourage anybody to never listen to anybody who says they don't sing well or don't play an instrument well because that is not required. If you can get in a room full of people and make any noise at all with any kind of emotional content to it you will be put on a pedestal in a way that you cannot replicate through even the greatest business dealings or other skills. It's simply amazing. I've seen it in office parties all my life and of course we see the tremendous Fame and wealth that is brought to singers today.
