{"id":12592,"date":"2017-11-10T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=12592"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:48:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:48:35","slug":"why-freddie-mercurys-voice-was-so-great-as-explained-by-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/11\/10\/why-freddie-mercurys-voice-was-so-great-as-explained-by-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Freddie Mercury&#8217;s Voice Was So Great, As Explained By Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in the last couple of days i&#8217;ve driven about 13 hours and listened to a lot of music. two of the voices i&#8217;ve always found most captivating are those of michael jackson (the dark, smokey lows as well as the hearbrokenness it can embody) and freddy mercury (didn&#8217;t know that &#8220;his unusual finesse might be attributed to a high vibrato frequency\u2014a couple notches higher than your standard, classically trained singer&#8221; and that scientists have discovered &#8220;evidence of subharmonics in mercury\u2019s voice, apparently due to vibrating ventricular folds, a technique that makes tuvan throat singers sound so otherworldly&#8221;). more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/04\/25\/475611808\/why-freddie-mercurys-voice-was-so-great-as-explained-by-science\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hFeER3_ZRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the last couple of days i&#8217;ve driven about 13 hours and listened to a lot of music. two of the voices i&#8217;ve always found most captivating are those of michael jackson (the dark, smokey lows as well as the hearbrokenness it can embody) and freddy mercury (didn&#8217;t know that &#8220;his unusual finesse might be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/11\/10\/why-freddie-mercurys-voice-was-so-great-as-explained-by-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Freddie Mercury&#8217;s Voice Was So Great, As Explained By Science<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15,1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12593,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions\/12593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}