fascinates: (nurarihyon | hagoromo gitsune)
[personal profile] fascinates2011-09-19 10:31 pm

Utaite Spotlight: NAL

NAL

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NAL is a very prolific, yet underappreciated singer. He started uploading songs in 2008 and is still growing strong today. He's often teased for having an "ossan" voice, but I personally think it's not the case. In fact, he's one of those utaite who can sing just about anything with his voice quality. You might remember NAL as the one who did the rap parts for this certain Mr. Music cover with Ashinaga Ojiisan, Srip, etc.

NAL has a slightly scratchy but powerful voice which is perfect for singing loud rock ballads and any passionate song. He also has a pretty good range, and can sing super low and powerfully high without sounding hoarse. If he can be compared to other utaite, his voice is almost like Yuge's in terms of power and range. But aside from singing loud rock songs, he can also do acoustic ballads which sound like country music (in a good way!). He can even sing rap arranges of songs. He is definitely an all-around guy who can sing anything if he puts his mind in it.

Aside from singing solo, Nal does a lot of covers, his duets mostly with utaite MILIA.

sample songs
A. Solos
Freely Tomorrow (Mitchie M original)
Fake Lover (Jimmythumb original)
sign (neko original)
World's End Dancehall -acoustic ver- (wowaka original; acoustic arrange by Osamuraisan)
Tómur (NioP original)

B. Collabs
KEEP OUT! (collab w/ a lot of people)
Aa, Subarashiki Nyansei (w/ Milia; Nem original)
Arrest Rose (w/ Chaco and Genzen Chaba; natsuP original)


nikki says
I'm a bit late in knowing about NAL, since I just heard him from Mr. Music. However, since I checked every one of their mylists, I found that I really liked NAL's singing voice, especially in rock/ballads. I am not much of a rap fan, and I prefer him singing slow songs, but he pulls off everything so nicely, it's hard not to like his works. He also has quite high quality uploads (and a wonderful voice) since the start of his upload, and it's pretty admirable. He's also especially nice to his fans.
fascinates: (sekaiichi | kisakotsu)
[personal profile] fascinates2011-09-06 11:07 pm

Weekly Utattemita Ranking # 148 (August 29-September 05, 2011)

This week has a lot of uploads, although not so much by popular people. Which is why this week is a good chance to be acquainted with awesome singers with satisfactory popularity! There are still remnants of awesome from last week, but I hope you'll take the time to listen to some people new to you this week :).

Also, ignore the lack of comments in some of the videos. I can't load them :/



↑# - the song moved up from a previous top 30 rank
↓# - song moved down from a previous top 30 rank
- song is a re-entry to the top 30 rankings

I'll be including the weekly top ten and the overall top thirty of the week. Links to the nicovideo are included as well as some information. You may download the .mp3 file by inputting the link @ nicosound. Enjoy!

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