Those eyes!
Linderella
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"Those eyes" are looking at a career that is only just beginning to unfold.
He's been on our radar for only 4 1/2 years . . . Sinatra, Presley, Fitzgerald, Bennett, Andrews, Pavarotti and the newer Elton, U2, Perry, Bocelli, and yes, Freddie - have flooded our ears for decades.
Freddie to Adam . . . I just want to say this.
A year ago, traveling in London, I came upon the corner near Leicester Square.
A huge, towering statue of Freddie Mercury is like the cake-topper above an intersection of iconic addresses and playbills.
It is a landmark; and a stunning work of art; a statue, resembling an 'Oscar' - but with Freddie raising his arm in a victorious stance that can only be mastered by the few who truly command an audience.
I saw this statue, and it was then I realized Freddie Mercury's impact and legacy.
Freddie is more than just a great voice, and a great presence, and a great memory. He is an ICON in a city, in a country, of legends and kings and icons.
Only years, or sudden legacy, can bring this status to an outstanding performer.
I have no problem saying that Adam Lambert's voice is the most beguiling, perfect, entrancing, captivating, heart-stopping sound I've ever known.
That's subjective!
Adam can sustain, purely, a note, with steady, constant, sure breath support, longer than anyone I've ever heard. That's objective.
Breath control is arguably the most important component in mastering vocal technique; that, and allowing the voice to be free; unmanufactured and unforced. It's incredibly hard to let go of this one thing in life you've found amazing; you want it to be beautiful, and from the soul. It's so hard to believe in voice.
Adam has done this. He has unleashed the most intimate, incredible part of himself. Maybe it took 'Burning Man' to do it. Somehow, he found the courage. His voice is so free - so free. It's so pure, and so unusual, in that his free voice can allow him to express emotion through every note and every phrase and breath.
When a singer has this freedom, the music reaches into your bones. It's a rare gift.
That's why, in my opinion, Leon Russell can slay me with 'You are so Beautiful' or Louis Armstrong can find me with 'Wonderful World'.
When I first heard Adam sing, I didn't think about his voice, actually. I was shot through the heart by his performance. He shattered my bones, and, as I look back, I see how he helped me rebuild myself, better, through his music. His pure voice took me far beyond notes and octaves; into the nettles and dry grass of my stinging self.
This is Adamtopia. The only place, outside of my little life, I've ever ventured.
All these great artists, including Freddie Mercury, were there before. I didn't know. It wasn't as if I didn't listen.
I wasn't listening when Adam sang. That's the amazing part. His voice found the ears that didn't hear.
That's the difference.
The thing is with singers of popular music, there seems not to be much criteria that people can agree on. It's almost as if anything goes. In my opinion, the bar is set very low. Even the ability to sing in tune doesn't seem to be important to everyone. 
