This is an interesting person to feature as the musician=singer example.

The reason I say this is that my high-school vocal teacher absolutely loathed Frank Sinatra. I went to high school in the 80's so there was plenty of pop-singers to pick on for poor pipes.

What bothered Mr. Longrie so much was Sinatra's use of slides to notes, which never worked well in choral music.

But what he failed to recognize, that it was specifically Sinatra's 'cool' with the slides that made him so popular. Not unlike controlled string bending on the guitar, Sinatra wasn't the first to bend notes so much I'm sure, but he sure made it popular and gave it a swagger that the world was wanting to hear.

The kid does a decent job of mimicking, but I have to say that it stops at that for me - mimickry (sp?).

My favorite musicians and artists always take something of the old and make something new from it.

-Scott