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Actually I thought the topic starter was talking about the voice as such, not phonology of different languages. For instance, in American music there is something which is generally perceived as a distinctly 'black' voice. But this may be due to a musical tradition evolving around (or in association with) a certain type of voice rather than racial differences as such.

 

hehehe...this is good. Actually there are very few singers in brasil who could actually call themselves some kind of racially pure "white" ( we don't have white/black per se ) but I understand what you are trying. Since I know the singers in brasil already I can say yes, I know a difference but.....Hmmmm...since almost everyone has a little bit of dende oil mixed into the blood...and brasil is defineitely not the u.s. ( thank god ) with its over the top racial weirdness, I will have to weigh in and say No, you cannot really "tell" if a singer is black or white in brasil, but again, the country is not set up to look at society this way, this is an american thing. We have many shades of brown, white skin and freckles with orange afros, we have everything and noone really cares.  However, when my husband and I came up here to the u.s. I swear I remember something about the black community complaining that Christina Aguilera was singing like a "black girl" and how could she, she was a fake or some thing like this, then suddenly she was okay because hey she is latina ( huh? ) I find this very strange....the people who could be called "light skin" in brasil, upon arriving in the u.s. are suddenly "black", and the ones in brasil who are called "white"  ( meaning not african slave families ) by the native indians upon arrival to u.s. are now latinos. People here who identify as "black" sometimes make me burst out laughing at the t.v. because they are nothing but white white white in brasil. It is so strange here. I do think there is a "black" singing style and speaking style in the u.s.

I find it strange that someone not from the south will speak this way if they are born up north, but what do I know.