Imagine putting all of the best vocal skills in one person—what would be the result?
The answer would be Anna-Maria Hefele! She can literally do a one-woman acapella harmony or recreate a musical instrument with her unique singing techniques.
Polyphonic overtones is quite the singing technique to behold—and only a handful of people can actually pull this off.
Hefele has been doing this technique for a decade and a half now and her technique has been recognized by The Huffington Post as an “amazing ability.” Polyphonic overtone singing is a type of singing in which the singer tries to hit multiple tones at once—undertone and the harmonic overtones. This technique is also known as harmonic singing or throat singing.
She explains this technique by demonstrating it on a YouTube video.
Hefele carefully demonstrates this technique in her video called “polyphonic overtone singing.”
She shows us how she can do it in several different ways, and she even stops in the middle of it to explain how it works and how she does it.
First, she demonstrates how to overlay the undertone and overtone at the same time. Later in the video, she makes it sound even more diverse by continuously shifting her overtones while prolonging the undertone. The fact that she has so much control over her voice in doing this technique is admirable.
The video easily caught the interest of countless people on the internet.
You can always find wondrous things on the internet almost every day. When this was posted on YouTube in 2014, it instantly gained popularity and eventually grew to 15 million views! Even now, more people come to take a look at this particular video.
You can find a lot of hilarious comments on this video, but at the same time, you can notice that their humor is mixed with praise, respect and appreciation. The impressive ability of hers has really blown the mind of her viewers.
She has a handful of additional song covers that feature this technique as well that are also worth checking out.
Her normal singing voice sounds more like an opera singer or a musical theater performer based on her power and range. All the while, she applies the polyphonic overtone singing technique in her music videos too.
In her cover of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” she majestically displayed her singing dynamics using her original singing voice and throat singing.
With her unique presentation of her vocals, one might just assume that she is a singing wizard.
Her talent deserves to be given much more attention from people around the world.
Hefele has been successful in her career. When she first started in 2005, she slowly worked on compositions for polyphonic singing. Not only that, but she also became a voice artist at the National Theater Mannheim for the contemporary ballet and even sang on different choirs. Now, she performs on plenty of stages and has even become a teacher who gives workshops for vocal improvisation and overtone singing.
Her skills are definitely enough to impress anyone who watches them!
Even so, and despite her 15 million views on the video, she remains underrated on the internet. Still, there are plenty of people out there showering her with support and appreciation, paving her a clearer path to her very own success.
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