Found this over at Randomizeme: Three songs have leaked from David Archuleta’s upcoming Christmas album, Christmas from the Heart. (thnx leeann). David has one of those voices that’s just made for Christmas music. Very traditional, very very nice…
Head to Amazon.com to listen to pre-order the album. Christmas From the Heart will be available everywhere, Tuesday, 10/13.
Melodies of Christmas
Have Youreself a Merry Little Christmas (with Charice)
Ave Maria
David Ave Maria´s pronunciation/accent is excellent, better than almost every American/Brittish/Irish singers. I know many, many versions of the song: Barbra, Celine, Charlotte Church, Celtic Woman´s Chöe Agnew, The Cranberries´ Dolores O´Riordan… despite their wonderfull voices, they have very bad pronunciation/accent. Even American ‘diva’ Jessye Norman and soprano singer Kathleen Battle don´t have a very good pronunciation of that song (although I think opera singers should take care of their pronunciation more than any other singers when singing classic music like that. Example of beautiful opera singers (non Italian) pronunciation: Maria Callas, born American, musically educated in Greece and career established in Italy and Spanish tenor Placido Domingo).
Exception in America: Josh Groban AND David Archuleta!
Of course, Caruso, Pavarotti, Bocelli have better pronunciation/accent, but they are Italian and they MUST have a very good pronunciation when singing in Latin.
And David, an 18 year old kid, took very good care of his pronunciation/accent, while other previously mentioned singers with double/triple of his age didn´t bothered.
And this is very important when you sing in a foreign language!
Post Scriptum: my native language is Portuguese, which comes from Latin, and I already studied 2 years of Latin language in college. But I don’t know English very well, so I apologize for my spelling/vocabulary. I don´t post regularly precisely because of this.