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The legendary singer/songwriter Yusuf / Cat Stevens released his first album in 1967. He’s a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and his albums have sold millions. In 2020, he released Tea for the Tillerman², a re-imagining of his hit 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman. In the song “Father & Son,” he sings a duet between the two title characters, doing both voices.
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He recorded the part of the father, but for the part of the son, he used a live recording of himself from 1970, taken from a show he played at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. So the two parts are still both sung in his voice, but 50 years apart.
“It was a moment where I was singing the son's part where I could actually hear the timbre the sound of my own father's voice and that was very strange because I was singing the son's part but I got my father's voice up there”
“I just simply shifted the octave up for the son and down for the father. And that kind of has its own impact on the emotion.”
“there's a way I know I have to go away That second away could be either a way or it could be away I have to go Anyway, it just intrigues me”
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