Welcome to my #TTT #ThreeTuneTuesday entry!
Good morning, everyone!
How’s your week going? Who would’ve thought we’re already in the home stretch of August… Time really does fly by, and we hardly even notice it until we look at the calendar or our watch, don’t we?
Now I’m going to talk a little about our birthday boy!
He turns 75 today and is known and recognized worldwide for his unique voice. With a powerful and very distinctive voice, Rob Halford has always stood out for this quality.
Robert John Arthur Halford, born on August 25, 1951, is the English heavy metal singer who has always been associated with Judas Priest, which he joined in 1973 (five years before I was even born!), and who left his mark on the history of a musical style and a very distinctive era in the world of music.
Known for his distinctive attire—which always included a leather jacket studded with metal rivets—Halford is often considered one of the greatest heavy metal vocalists of all time! His vocal range, capable of shifting from a deep, hoarse growl to a deafening falsetto, is his trademark.
Nicknamed the “Metal God” by his fans, Halford decided to go public with his sexual orientation in 1998 during an interview with MTV. Since then, he has made a point of publicly defending the rights of gay people, not only in the arts but in all aspects of life. I confess that, since I’m not a Judas Priest fan, I wasn’t aware of this detail. But I was pleasantly surprised by how the lead singer—whom I’d always associated with a strikingly dominant masculine image—has more to him than meets the eye!
For this week, here are three songs suggested to me by Spotify that I identify with and that immediately bring to mind the British band formed in 1969 in Birmingham.
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Original text written by @xrayman in Portuguese and translated with DeepL.com (free version)
