Hi Bruce,

I was at that Sainkho show... do you live in Mpls, too?

Steve Sklar
http://khoomei.com


--- In khoomei@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Ray" <lushrambo@...> wrote:
>
> I was thinking: thanks Stacey for posting those beautiful videos. One
> of those names without a gender(like Mike). It got me wondering- Are
> there any women in the group? Is throat-singing, like The Three
> Stooges, kind of a guy thing? I was blown away when I saw Sainkho
> sing. It was amazing when she came on stage, to see the normaly stodgy
> Walker Art Center in Minneapolis burst into a explosion of loon calls
> from every corner of the room. She's got quite a fan club. One thing
> for sure: the law of overtones dictates that women should be able to
> make extra high and powerful harmonics. It's the "throat" part that
> makes it not quite the same thing. There is a gap there between the
> low and high notes that men don't have. An Alto voice,like Karen
> Carpenter, might help that. Have we gotten over the prejudice against
> women throat-singers yet? Kiva are you out there?
>