throat singer
noun
plural throat singers
: someone who engages in any of several culturally distinct singing traditions typically involving the production of simultaneous overtones via control of the throat and mouth : a practitioner of throat singing
A throat singer is able to selectively amplify harmonics naturally present in the voice to produce two, or sometimes three, notes simultaneously.—The Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
… seekers of new forms of world music discovered the phenomenal skills of Tyva's throat singers, whose traditions of multiple voices sung at once by one person were developed through the reverberations of herders in mountain valleys as well as their harmonizing with babbling brooks.—Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
"It is a very difficult technique. … A throat singer has to have good lungs, he has to be able to hold his breath for a long time."—Dashdorj Tserendavaa
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