McFERRIN, Bobby

Initially a virtuoso vocalist, McFerrin is the first human singer to resemble the electronic Sampler, a technology new to the 1980s that stores sounds, as they say, remembering them, to be instantly evoked at a later time. What is most remarkable is the sheer number and variety of sounds in McFerrin's acoustic inventory. With the assistance of audio overdubbing, he can vocally accompany himself, in addition to producing with his voice alone the sounds of percussion and other instruments...