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Ray Quinn

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A young guy with a adult voice. He sings with feeling and sometimes
better then the original artist.

I love this type of music and I can honestly say I prefer Ray Quinn's singing to Sinatra's. I love to play this and never tire of his voice. He sounds great on every song. Ray Quinn's smooth and sultry voice belongs in Vegas. Too bad I haven't seen him promoted in the U.S. at all, which is a shame since Simon Cowell definitely has the power and ability to do so. Ray Quinn is definitely "under-estimated" and not given nearly enough credit for his great voice. Hopefully, someone will market him properly, including in the U.S. Best of luck to you Ray!

X Factor runner-up Ray Quinn comes off as extremely charismatic and likeable (especially with female fans) but his voice is only limited to swing music, unlike the show's winner Leona Lewis. This album suffers from somewhat weak vocals, even though it does show Ray's personality and charisma very well. Although he doesn't exactly have the strongest voice he makes every track on the album his own and improvises well, unlike many other artists who try to cover these swing classics.

I'd say the highlight of this album would have to be "My Way". However, I much prefer the song as he sang it live on the finale of X Factor. He actually sang many of the songs on this album on the show and the live renditions contained much more emotion and vocal prowess than these studio cuts. Overall I respect Ray for bring back the music of Dino and the boys but the album by itself was pretty average.

Sinatra, Dean Martin & Bobby Daren rolled into one. The best new ballad singer to come along in a very long time ... Awesome

From the endless scum-bucket of reality popstars comes the latest manufactured, smiley-faced gimp - Ray Quinn, runner up in this years..... oh, like it matters. They're all the same. Cut out and keep cardboard garbage for single-mothers and morons to faint over.

So what do we EXPECT from a reality star's album? A variety of hastily compiled cover versions, to cash-in while the going's good and people remember who they are? Well, that's the norm, and before this fang-faced little weasel vanishes forever he's done just that, but its somehow even more lazy and contrived than before.

Pop history lesson - Robbie Williams created a MONSTER with his "Swing When You're Winning" album; a collection of jazz standards that, to his credit, he did actually have a genuine love for. While the album sucked, it was an original idea and it sold by the bucketload. So, of course, people copied the idea. There was a horrific album of reality popstars doing the same songs (and guess where ALL of those "artists" are now? Exactly - singing in a shopping mall near you) and then Westlife did the same thing, mudering songs they have no passion for and have no idea how to sing them.

And so why fix something if it ain't broken, eh? Here comes Ray, singing those same songs with all the plausibility that a teenage werewolf-lookalike could possibly have - zero. It's beyond awful, of course, but its also frankly insulting. Talk about uninspired. Talk about contrived and easy-option. Well, he DID come from reality TV so that's no real surprise.

Of course it sold well. They all do, these fly-by-night chancers. Let's wait for six months from now, where he follows in the trails of 99% of the other reality-pop dross, and the 13 year old pregnant girls and council estate scum have moved on to the next idiot from the conveyor belt.

This sort of rubbish is KILLING pop music. Don't even dream of being tempted with this.

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