Five Favorite Glossolalia Singers

(in preferential order)

1. Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins (favorite album: Treasure; sample track: Persephone)

2. Sidsel Endresen (favorite album: Duplex Ride by Sidsel Endresen + Bugge Wesseltoft; sample track: Okay/Epilogue)

3. Mary Margaret O’Hara (favorite album: Miss America, but you have to look to her live recordings and guest appearances for an example of her glossolalia; sample track: November Spawned a Monster by Morrissey)

4. Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance (favorite album: Aion; sample track: As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins)

5. Adriano Celentano (favorite album: Nostalrock; sample track: Prisencólinensináinciúsol)

— November 17, 2020

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