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[momtochloe]

I don't know if this applies but I once read an article on Kathleen Turner and they asked her about her voice.  She said she trained with a vocal coach for a long time to get that smokey register so I would imagine if someone wanted to change their vocal range it is possible with practice.

[Lucky Charm]

I remember someone interviewing Kathleen Turner years ago and they mentioned her deep husky voice. 

She actually went to a voice coach who instructed her clench down her molars on pencil erasers and trained her to speak from her gut.

[brii]

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@momtochloe wrote:

I don't know if this applies but I once read an article on Kathleen Turner and they asked her about her voice.  She said she trained with a vocal coach for a long time to get that smokey register so I would imagine if someone wanted to change their vocal range it is possible with practice.

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Kathleen Turner has such a great voice.

[ChynnaBlue]

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@DARING GREATLY wrote:

Watching her looking like a woman but talking like Bruce in his voice, makes it appear more she is in drag.   I don't mean that disrespectfully, but the voice makes it hard to appeciate the changes.

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That's all on you. A lot of women have masculine voices and have made careers out of them - Mavis Staples, Kathleen Turner, and others. And a lot of men have higher voices and made careers out of that, like Michael Jackson.

Your preconceptions and knowledge of her past are getting in the way of appreciating the change, not her voice. 

[Say Nay]

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@ChynnaBlue wrote:

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@DARING GREATLY wrote:

Watching her looking like a woman but talking like Bruce in his voice, makes it appear more she is in drag.   I don't mean that disrespectfully, but the voice makes it hard to appeciate the changes.

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That's all on you. A lot of women have masculine voices and have made careers out of them - Mavis Staples, Kathleen Turner, and others. And a lot of men have higher voices and made careers out of that, like Michael Jackson.

Your preconceptions and knowledge of her past are getting in the way of appreciating the change, not her voice. 

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Lauren Bacall had an amazing, deep sultry voice. No one would ever doubt her femininty. 

[SuiGeneris]

Does anyone remember Dana Carvey's impersonation of George H.W. Bush?

He used a very high-pitched voice ["a thousand points of light . . ."]

Bush got lampooned a lot during his presidential campaign, so he used vocal training to lower the pitch [or register] of his voice.

I remember it well because his voice coach appeared on Oprah's show to tell the story and while he was there, he chose several audience members and worked with them prior to the show to change certain things about their voices that they didn't like.

It was really interesting.

[Black Cat Back]

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@ChynnaBlue wrote:

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@DARING GREATLY wrote:

Watching her looking like a woman but talking like Bruce in his voice, makes it appear more she is in drag.   I don't mean that disrespectfully, but the voice makes it hard to appeciate the changes.

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That's all on you. A lot of women have masculine voices and have made careers out of them - Mavis Staples, Kathleen Turner, and others. And a lot of men have higher voices and made careers out of that, like Michael Jackson.

Your preconceptions and knowledge of her past are getting in the way of appreciating the change, not her voice. 

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Point taken.   Thanks.   You are right,  I think because we knew Bruce so many years prior and know his voice, unlike some transgender people who are famous and unknown to us before, it's because of our familiarity with the past.     I had Bruce Jenner's picture on my bedroom wall after he won at the Olympics.    

One clarification, Michael Jackson did have a lower registered and deeper voice.  Later in his life, he would use his natural deeper voice while speaking.  On his "Invincible" album, the song "2000 Watts" he sang in his deeper voice and some couldn't recognize that it was him.

[SusieQ_2]

I thought I heard a Dr. talking about a surgery that could raise Caitlyn's voice so I looked it up and it's called "feminization laryngoplasty." 

Apparently there are some risks associated with the procedure and the results I heard on the website weren't too good.

Big Brother 17, which started Wednesday, has the first transgendered person to be on the show. Her name is Audrey Middleton. She was a male, who is now completely transgendered, and she sounds very female. She's very pretty and the house guests were very surprised when she revealed her "secret." 

[cherry]

I wouldn't mess with my voice. Look what happened to Joan Rivers

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@SusieQ_2 wrote:

I thought I heard a Dr. talking about a surgery that could raise Caitlyn's voice so I looked it up and it's called "feminization laryngoplasty." 

Apparently there are some risks associated with the procedure and the results I heard on the website weren't too good.

Big Brother 17, which started Wednesday, has the first transgendered person to be on the show. Her name is Audrey Middleton. She was a male, who is now completely transgendered, and she sounds very female. She's very pretty and the house guests were very surprised when she revealed her "secret." 

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[Suziepeach]

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@SusieQ_2 wrote:

I thought I heard a Dr. talking about a surgery that could raise Caitlyn's voice so I looked it up and it's called "feminization laryngoplasty." 

Apparently there are some risks associated with the procedure and the results I heard on the website weren't too good.

Big Brother 17, which started Wednesday, has the first transgendered person to be on the show. Her name is Audrey Middleton. She was a male, who is now completely transgendered, and she sounds very female. She's very pretty and the house guests were very surprised when she revealed her "secret." 

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Thanks for the information, Susie.  That's the surgery I was thinking of.  I've seen and heard fully transgenders that have beaufiful feminine voices.  I wonder if Cait/Bruce will take this all the way? 

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