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Title: Pleasant Voice - Terrible Material
Review: These types of recordings seem to be aimed at an audience I cannot relate to.Mr. Grobin has a pleasant enough voice - think an Anglo version of Andrea Bocelli - but I cannot get past the music itself.Frequently - and incorrectly - he's called an opera singer, but I think it fairly obvious, unless he's hiding something, this is not a voice made for opera. A certain type of musical theatre, or perhaps ballads of another era - or from an era yet to be, would be more suitable for this singer. As it is the material is overproduced, souped up to levels of near maudlin intimacy - but lacking anything "genuine" or real.Amazingly, people are flocking to this stuff and praising it to the heights ... I don't get it. And don't want to. It smells a little bit like Charlotte Church to me.
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