Brandy is no stranger to receiving copious praise for her complex melisma, unrivaled harmonic stacks, and overall soaring vocal displays over her nearly 30-year career, so it should come as no surprise her fellow princess ‘Cinderella‘ is among the many heaping royal acclaim her way.
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KeKe Palmer, hot on the promo trail for her latest album ‘Big Boss,’ didn’t shy away from big praise of B-Rocka as she dished on the R&B diva’s impact on the genre’s modern-day hitmakers.
“She has a really unique voice that I think is the groundwork for any young person today doing R&B,” KeKe relayed (as seen in the video above).
Tapping into the ‘Vocal Bible’ debate, Palmer also made it clear where she stood on who deserves the title.
“People that don’t sing, they always don’t get the ‘Vocal Bible’ gag and that’s how you know they don’t know music,” she said before later sharing, “It’s very embarrassing.”
‘Vocal Bible’ – an honorific title afforded to a singer whose vocal stylings are considered highly revered by admirers and fellow vocalists as a standard to be followed – is one that’s been associated with Brandy for most of her adult life.
And though some have argued that moniker is undue, millions – including superstars like Palmer, Tank, India.Arie, Jill Scott, Fantasia, Tori Kelly, Chris Brown, JoJo, Jazmine Sullivan, and more – aren’t afraid to give the ‘I Wanna Be Down’ singer the crown.
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Beyoncé is a better vocalist. People praise beyoncé performance but her vocal ability is underrated. In actual live performance, not studio, she can sing better than brandy
The only thing Beyoncé has over Brandy is that her voice is bigger, Beyoncés voice is damn near perfection! but Brandys voice trumps Bey in every other aspect
Nah. Beyonce has better pitch accuracy, better volume control, greater ability to transition between registers, more deveoped lows, better belting ability, a more developed head voice and better vibrato. Beyonce is objectively the far more superior vocalist on a technical level. However on a subjective level, Brandys vocals are stylistically better. For example her runs whilst not as technically defined and agile as Beyonces, their style is more appealing to me and i prefer Brandys vocal tone.
So Beyonce takes the technical skill crown, but Brandys vocal style and tone are better to me.
KeKe just stfu, your music taste is trash
She was talking about vocals not music you moron
I want to start hearing JoJo’s name in these conversations about setting a standard for new talent to follow. Brandy is cool, but JoJo can float up and down the scale and sing a run like no one else.
Nah. We gotta start distinguishing objective from subjective. On a technical level, singers such as Avery Wilson and Torri Kelly have JoJo beat in terms of vocal agility. But fair enough if you prefer the sound and style of JoJos runs (subjective)
Keke is so funny, and so right. It’s very embarrassing.
SHE RIGHT!
But Y’all not buying her music in 2023
I know Mahalia Jackson is wayyyyy before some of our time but I think that title belongs to her butttt 💁..I would think a vocal bible will sing NOTHING but Gospel hymns but whatever 💁
Not a Bible vocalist but the Vocal Bible. And if that’s your opinion that’s fine too but someone who is advanced in vocal ability and studied by many. Someone who, if you thought you wanted to be a singer, they would be someone to aspire to. Your favorite singer’s favorite singer. Not literally a choir lead singer lol
She’s right. The only influence these other girls have is too much vibrato and stale runs
Lol keke can’t sing, so shoot I wouldn’t take her opinion seriously. She acts like a queen and sings like a terrible young Michael Jackson.
She’s good but vocal bible…Brandy fans always copy and paste the same non legit argument lol.
Definitely isn’t a vocal bible . And I’m a childhood fan of hers. She cannot outsing bey in any way possible. Bey is like Usher. Both get better with age whereas Brandy is transgressing . Bey sounds better now than she ever has. And so does Ursh
LOLOLOL none of y’all know music! She’s talking about her sound! Not her vocal ability lol KeKe proving most people don’t know music with all these comments as prime example A!
It’s really sad ppl are this SLOW & don’t understand the vocal bible title. No one has ever said Brandy is the greatest singer ever, their talkin’ about her style of singing. More R&B singers rather sound like Brandy vs someone like Jennifer Hudson for example.
It’s that simple…cry about it!
Brandy sings like a pack a day smoker
That’s Miley….
Brandy kills when driving, but barely sings. She whispers. FlOP.