What's a soulful British person supposed to sound like?

[Oceanicpuppy]

Like Sam Smith, Adele and many of these British R&B / Soul singers basically sing in a southern blaccent. I guess from listening to R&B / Soul music but that's not their real accent.

It must be difficult to try to phrase your words in an accent that is different while singing.

What would a great British singer sound like without altering their accent?

 

[RehReh]

Soul 2 Soul
Check em out

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Soul 2 Soul
Check em out

They sound good but they sound like are mimicking an American accent while singing.

 

[RehReh]

Sade

Was the lead singer mimicking as well?
Shirley Bassey?

I don't think so, they have good diction and annunciation, not all English singers sound and talk like Amy whinehouse

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

I don't agree some stuff in this video but I will post.



They are trying to say the American accent is neutral but all Americans don't sing with same accent.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Sade

Was the lead singer mimicking as well?
Shirley Bassey?

I don't think so, they have good diction and annunciation, not all English singers sound and talk like Amy whinehouse

Sade is a good example. She doesn't change her accent as much.



She pronounces words like she would normally pronounce them I guess.

For example,
American = ruler
UK = rulah

You can tell she isn't American when she sings. Verse Soul 2 Soul kinda sound ambiguous, too many ( er's ). I personally like when singers don't change their accents.

Shirley Bassey is a good one too.

 

[Kitsch]

 

[RehReh]

U just reminded me of Leo the Lion and Lamar

 

[Yehuda]

What about Lemar or dude from Lighthouse Family

Or Craig David

 

[Ria_21]

Great question. I used to sometimes think about this myself why do us brits sound so american when we sing even when i sing karaoke an american accent comes out of nowhere a bad one at that.

What about corinne bailey rae? I can hear both the british/american accent when she sings.

 

[Ria_21]

Lily Allen and Kate nash are the only two british singers i can think of who sound more british than american when they sing

 

[Taadow]

Somebody don't know about Soul II Soul or Loose Ends...

 

[Ms.CuriousCat]

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Dido is a Brit and sounds like one to my ears.

Not sure if Nora Jones sounds like one.

There was a boy group that sounded proper Northern. Can't remember their name. The something...

 

[MikeyC]

 

[Kinguno]

Everybody's voice is different but like Eric Clapton