Gender Confusion and Music (female-sounding singers)

[Jaye]

I'm not talking about in the musicians, but in the listener's mind. There's an up and coming band called Coheed and Cambria. When I first heard of them, my ears perked up at the name. I once belonged to a medievalist group that acted as the "Kingdom of Cambria" (after ancient Wales). Anyway, nothing else about them caught my attention. They appeared to be just another group of four hairy guys. Big whoop!

Then, one morning, I'm shopping after work at Target, and one of their videos comes up in the electronics department. The song's called "A Favor House Atlantic". I didn't pay any attention to the video, but the vocalist caught my attention. I pictured "her" as this cute little Avril Lavigne-type. I rushed home and pulled up the band's website, and discovered that there are no female members. Nor were there any guest performers on the album. I went back and looked at the video, and, sure enough, there's a guy singing.

I guess I shouldn't be terribly surprised. There have been lots of male singers who have gotten attention with female-sounding voices. I just wasn't expecting it.

If you're not familiar with the song or the band, you can find them here:

http://coheedandcambria.com/home/

If you look under the "media" section, I believe they have the video.

[Amelie-Laveau]

I was just informed from a friend of two bands. One is Malice Mizer and the other is Dir en Grey. Jrock bands with very androgenous members. I still don't know how to put a picture up but this is the addy if you want to see them.

http://members.fortunecity.com/kamijo/malice_mizer.htm

Dir en Grey pictures

www.paranoidcitroid.com/degwallpapers.html

I love mana of Malice Mizer
Love Amelie

PS I got confused with what you meant, I didn't know you meant sounds female, I took it as looks like female. Anyway these are some strange bands.