accent

[Do228]

What accent does the singer in this video have? Could it be a New York or New England accent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJn2BPNGk64

 

[emsr2d2]

It sounds like a fairly standard (but not strong) Jamaican/Caribbean accent to me, with some American twang to some sounds.

 

[jutfrank]

No way! That's a northern English accent. Manchester.

Nice groove.

 

[GoesStation]

Definitely not New York or New England.

 

[Roman55]

Definitely English from England. It's hard to be more precise than that with singing.

 

[emsr2d2]

Having listened to that several times, I'd say that the accent was originally Welsh but it now has an northern English veneer with touches of Birmingham and Nottingham.

I must look up his biography to see if I'm right. ;-)

I'm not sure we were watching the same video. I got a woman singing! She sounded probably British Caribbean but used a fairly standard American twang at the end of a few words. When I checked her provenance, I think it said her mother was Jamaican and her father unspecific African-American (I can't quite remember but it was something like that!)

 

[emsr2d2]

OK, I totally missed it! I'm so swamped with work today that I probably shouldn't be spending time on the forum at all and it seems I'm not concentrating! I think what I Googled yesterday was "Is YesKing Jamaican?" because that was my best guess after watching the video.

This is what I found.

 

[Do228]

This is what I found.

It's not Diana King, it's Mel Uye-Parker. Just found her on Facebook and I'm going to ask her now what accent she talks because I really like it. Maybe I can also book her for a street party concert.

 

[jutfrank]

Yes King is producer Rhys Adams.

The vocalist on this track is Mel Uye-Parker, who is definitely from the Manchester area. She has a very obvious Mancunian accent. It can be heard especially clearly when she says:

drunken afternoons
You lost the tune last night

 

[jazzz8]

sounds pretty much like a north england accent to me