Please join me today for this overview of the roller coaster career of Alberta Hunter (01 April 1895 17 October 1984), a jazz legend whose surprising and extraordinary life was shaped by a voice tha

Today I revisit the life and legacy of lyric baritone William Parker (05 August 1943 29 March 1993), to whom I devoted an episode exactly a year ago. To further explore his unmatched contribution to

My intention this week to produce a joyous new episode further celebrating contraltos, was undermined by multiple deaths this past week in the musical world, including French pop icon Franoise Hardy,

Its been a whirlwind of a week chez Gundlach and I find myself at the end of it without a new episode ready to post. In addition to that, we are already halfway through Pride Month and I realized thi

Have you ever encountered a singer that no one has apparently heard of, yet once you have discovered them, you feel compelled to introduce them to practically everyone you know? Ive had this experien

During Black History Month this year I featured a group of five exceptional singers I dubbed, for lack of a better term, Forgotten Divas. Each of these women, sopranos Delcina Stevenson, Annabelle B

Finally, the first in my long-promised series on the contralto voice! The contralto is a rara avis in the todays opera and classical music scene, and yet back in the day, there seem to have been more

Several summers ago I published my first episode celebrating the artistry of Sylvia Sass which primarily featured her 1984 album of pop songs sung in Hungarian. At the time I called it, without any ir

Todays episode is one of my Listeners Favorites episodes, this one introduced by my wonderful friend Thom Baker. He had just written me about his enthusiasm for the Rosanna Carteri episode I posted

In the very first season of Countermelody I presented an episode which featured both Lawrence Winters and Robert McFerrin, two of the most significant baritones of the twentieth century, and both trai