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the only instrument you can't put down, leave home, or forget to pack
means The act of producing musical sounds with your voice, shaping pitch and melody as you go.
from From Old English 'singan,' to sing or chant, with deep Germanic roots — a cousin of German 'singen' and Dutch 'zingen.' The same family gave us the noun 'song' (Old English 'sang'), the thing that comes out when you sing. Scholars trace it to a Proto-Germanic root that may have carried the broader sense of reciting or telling aloud, back when song and story were the same act.
- group sync
- choir members' heartbeats synchronize while singing together
- brain wiring
- stroke patients who can't speak can often still sing
- happy chemicals
- releases endorphins and oxytocin, the same as hugging
- ancient habit
- humans likely sang before they spoke in words
- vagus boost
- calms the nervous system through one long nerve
maria callas — greek-italian soprano who revolutionized opera in the 1950s with her dramatic intensity
aretha franklin — american soul singer with unparalleled vocal range, called the queen of soul since the 1960s
luciano pavarotti — italian tenor whose 1990 world cup performance reached billions of viewers globally
marian anderson — african-american contralto who performed at lincoln memorial in 1939 after being denied constitution hall