The Queen of Awful: Florence Foster Jenkins

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If you've been reading my blog for any time, you know that I have a passion for great music and an equally sick obsession with horrible music.  The worse, the better.

I've posted some bad stuff here - my favorite horrible artist of all time was Wing:


But today I have found perhaps the all-time champion of horribleness: Florence Foster Jenkins.  Believe it or not, Ms. Jenkins makes Wing sound in tune.

The story goes like this: In 1909, at the age of 39, Jenkins inherited a large sum of money from her father and embarked on her passion in life: music; namely opera.  Unfortunately, she had absolutely no talent whatsoever (that's putting it very nicely), but that didn't stop her from paying RCA to distribute her albums (they certainly never signed her to a contract) and she even rented out Carnegie Hall and the Ritz-Carlton Ballroom for her recitals.

Yes, this is all true.

Just goes to show, if you have money and passion, you can do anything you want to do - even if you have no talent!  Then again, we see that all the time in modern music, don't we?

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Worst Vocal Performance of All Time - Ms. Florence Foster Jenkins

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