Some people have voices that sound so steady and self-assured and velvety you almost don’t even care what they’re saying….you just want to listen to that rich timbre, those purring tones, that wonderful phrasing and diction. I’m not talking about singing voices but the simple realm of words, phrases, sentences, thoughts.
I was thinking the other day about Kamala Harris‘s profoundly annoying voice…thin, a bit raspy, no music or rhythm…and what a terrible speech-giver she is.
And this morning I was thinking about the other side of the coin — the voices of Barack Obama, Morgan Freeman, young and middle-aged Ingrid Bergman, JFK, Judi Dench, Freddie Jones, David McCullough, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Sir Ian McKellen, Lauren Bacall, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Michael Wincott. Who else?