Amy Winehouse is a singer-songwriter that has a distinct voice of the soul, jazz and R&B style.  Even though she debuted herself first in the United Kingdom in 2003, she recently has become a huge success in the United States with her hit, “Rehab”.  She has a “old” jazz voice that reminds me of such greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.  Her single that I currently enjoy now is “You Know I’m No Good”, her second hit off of her top-of the chart album, “Back to Black”.  Many of her songs reflect her raspy and unique voice that accompanies interesting rhythm and beats.  The song is an original and is based on fictional characters.  I like this song because it is not as over-played as “rehab”, but also that I think it displays more of a jazz-style like the African-American women’s style that we have been studying in class.

Donnie McClurkin and Michael Buble are two artists posted from two of the other students in class.  The first one, Donnie McClurkin was an artist posted by Catherine.  I had never heard of this artist before because he is a gospel singer and I’ve never listenened to new gospel music outside of class.  This artist and song was interesting because it was very modern to today and I liked how Catherine chose to pick it.  The song was “I Call You Faithful” and it was extremely uplifting .  I noticed there was extremely loud vocals and lots of instruments- something typical from the category of gospel.The second artist, Michael Buble, was posted by Chris.  Although I had never heard of this artist before either, I have heard the song he sings.  I have heard the song, “Sway” in movies before, although I can’t remember now which ones.  I think I recognize it because I have always liked this song but never knew who sang it.  Every time I hear it it always makes me want to dance!