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Originally Posted by Dodfather
Sorry but I have to disagree with this. The music world has been full of great musicians who didn't write. I consider a great singer a great musician because the voice is an instrument like any other.
Karen Carpenter (great underrated drummer as well as having one of the best voices there has ever been) Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra (yes, I know everyone always says him), all the older singers like Ella Fitzgerald etc were musicians of real merit but they didn't write. What about great session musicians too who don't write? Don't they count?
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Of course they are all good instrumentalists or great performers or great personalities. What I meant is that at 17 you can copy an artist fantastic but that doesn't make you a great musician yet. If she has sang an own song I'd be able to judge better if she's gonna make it or not as an artist. Studiomusicians are great but 99% of the time backgroundartists. Simply because they don't like the spotlights.
And by the way, You name some very old artists that made it in a time that people didn't write their own material per se at all. It's 2009 now, and basicly, you make it if you are multitalented and stand on your own, or you get milked by others due to a format that's put on you by massproducers.
And for this girl, I can't say if she's got the talent to fit in the first category.