query: followed_by hometime 
supports: Hometime is the fifth studio album of English singer / songwriter Alison Moyet . There is a gap of almost eight years between the release of Essex , the singer 's previous studio album , and Hometime ; this was caused by a dispute between the singer and Sony Music Entertainment , her former record label , who wanted her to produce what they saw as more `` commercial '' music . Hometime was the first album by Moyet released by her new record label , Sanctuary Records . Much to the chagrin of Sony - who had refused to release the album - Hometime enjoyed a great deal of critical and commercial success ; the album sold in excess of a quarter of a million copies in the UK within the first months of its release , Moyet became one of the top five bestselling female artists of 2002 , and was nominated for a BRIT Award and a Mercury Music Prize that year . Hometime was produced by The Insects ( Tim Norfolk and Bob Locke ) who had previously worked with Massive Attack and Madonna among others . A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.
  The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to, but different from the alto, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typically between the F below middle C (F in scientific pitch notation) to the second F above middle C (F), although at the extremes some voices can reach the E below middle C (E) or the second B above middle C (B). The contralto voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic contralto. Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet (born 18 June 1961) is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy contralto voice. She came to prominence as half of the duo Yazoo, but has since mainly worked as a solo artist. Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in African musical traditions, African-American work songs and European-American folk music. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds or fifths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove.
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answer: voice