You ever hear a song from a singer and then you think this is how they talk and then you hear them in an interview and you're amazed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNviSxdXzKo
When I first heard Linda Lewis, I thought that her singing voice had matched as how she was interviewed but then when I actually heard her I was surprised.

Did you know that Alan Frew, the lead singer of the Canadian group Glass Tiger is from Scotland?  I never knew this until much later, but now that I know, I can hear it come across in their music, especially in their 1988 hit My Song, which is still my favourite from them.

While not a popular song in the rest of the world, it peaked at #9 in Canada and features backup from the Irish folk band The Chieftains.

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How about actors who are British but played the part of an American, with an "American accent", so maybe you never knew they actually spoke with a "British accent". Prime example is Olivia D'Abo from "The Wonder Years".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvmSYYDfvg

How about actors who are British but played the part of an American, with an "American accent", so maybe you never knew they actually spoke with a "British accent". Prime example is Olivia D'Abo from "The Wonder Years".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvmSYYDfvg


That one was a shock to me when I first learned it.  Her cousin Marayam was the Bond girl in The Living Daylights

How about Hugh Laurie from the show House M.D.  He played such a good American, I had no idea he was British, which is weird because I'd unknowingly already seen him in a episode of Friends where he spoke with his very real English accent

How about Hugh Laurie from the show House M.D.  He played such a good American, I had no idea he was British, which is weird because I'd unknowingly already seen him in a episode of Friends where he spoke with his very real English accent


Also John Mahoney, who played Marty Crane, Frasier's dad.  Prior to Frasier, I'd seen him in a few films, and in each one, he played an American.  I never would have guessed in a million years that he was from England.  To be fair, he moved to America in 1959, became a U.S. citizen in 1971, so he'd spent most of his life as an American so he could naturally blend right in

Not English but Scottish, Sheena Eastman


Cat

Did you know that Alan Frew, the lead singer of the Canadian group Glass Tiger is from Scotland?  I never knew this until much later, but now that I know, I can hear it come across in their music, especially in their 1988 hit My Song, which is still my favourite from them.

While not a popular song in the rest of the world, it peaked at #9 in Canada and features backup from the Irish folk band The Chieftains.

But when he sings he sounds so much different.  :o

How about actors who are British but played the part of an American, with an "American accent", so maybe you never knew they actually spoke with a "British accent". Prime example is Olivia D'Abo from "The Wonder Years".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvmSYYDfvg

How do they make their voice sound American?  :o

Not English but Scottish, Sheena Eastman


Cat

Easton.  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI58lEFaODE
How about The group Five Star, the lead singer sounds just like that of a young Janet Jackson but in an interview Denise Pearson and the whole family brothers and sisters are all British, never knew it at first. :o

Easton.  ;)


Thanks. I'm not thinking straight these days.


Cat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKk9lzIiu40
Jaki Graham, never knew she was British until I heard her in interviews many years later.

There may be some who don't know that John Waite is British.  He started out in the 70's as the lead singer in The Babys, a British rock band who had much success in the US/Canada, but went almost unknown in the UK.  He then went solo in the 80s, and same deal, though his signature hit Missing You did reach the UK Top 10 (becoming the only UK Top 40 hit of his career).  Then in the late 80s, he formed the supergroup Bad English, and once again same deal, big success in North America, but almost unknowns in the UK

Here is Turn And Walk Away, a 1980 hit (their last) by The Babys.  This peaked at #42 in the US and #15 in Canada

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Here is When I See You Smile, the 1989 US/Canada #1 hit by Bad English

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiaBO0HpJq4
Princess- After The Love Has Gone (1985)