I was watching an interview a little while ago, with a famous fight trainer. The interviewer asked him who the most dangerous/incredible fighter he’d ever seen was, and he told this story about a guy called Steve Rusk.
Steve was just an outdoors-y kind of guy in the US (hunting, fishing, etc), but he’d come in and train with the fight trainers top world-class fighters. And Steve would utterly destroy them. He was just THAT physical and that good… but he never had the desire to be known across the world, he just liked training and being good at that. It was it’s own reward.
In the same way, there are some INSANE singers out there that you will (very likely) never have heard of… and I thought I’d share a few of my absolute favourites on here. All of these are bootleg recordings to help capture how good these guys are live. Enjoy!
Stan Brown – Flying Home
This is musical theatre (which I don’t normally go in for) and this piece is excellent. Stay tuned the end when he busts out some gospel vocal chops that’d make even higher female singers jealous.
EDIT: Some time after I originally wrote this article, Stan found it and contacted me. I’ve been most privileged to have had multiple conversations with this fabulous singer.
Darius deHaas – King of the world
This is also an MT piece, which happens to be from the same musical (but is coincidence in that regard). Darius is a very light tenor who can just sail through his range, and again, stay tuned for his ad libbing at the end. It’s spectacular.
Charles Jones – Change is gonna come
I’ve shared this one before in it’s own separate post, but this is a live bootleg recording, just to show how stellar this guys voice is. There’s relatively little of this guy out there, but if you have a Google/youtube you’ll find some other links to him.