Jacques, strapping
Meet Jacques Snyman of South Africa, former rugby player, current fitness model and anti-bullying activist, and possible future opera star.
Meet Jacques Snyman of South Africa, former rugby player, current fitness model and anti-bullying activist, and possible future opera star.
With his high pitched voice, I’ll believe it when we can see if he has pair “down there.”
Judging by what we saw in his BigMuscleBear profile, there is plenty to entertain yourself down there. My only complaint is that it is all shaved.
We have been given his profile before but here it is again with the caveat thbat it is NSFW:
http://www.bigmusclebears.com/~sportbilly
LA how cruel of you to falsely advertise. While there are many images of delicious (not all shaved) beefcake. The goods, as they were are hidden by underpants. And, well I *hate* to cast aspersion on someone I would sleep with in a New York minute, the combination of obvious vanity with being coy about revealing the whole package suggests there may be stuffing of those speedos involved. And I say that as not any kind of a size queen, within reason I guess.
Not in love with the voice, but he occasionally removes all of his clothing over at Atlas Men:
http://www.atlasmen.com/photoblog/index.cfm?photo=C03024AA-B8AC-6F8D-056A4D04BC6465C3
NSFW, obviously.
Seems a shame Anthony Weiner is packing more heat than Jacques, but isn’t that how it always is. Smaller frame often means well, more representation for the people of NY.
Is this what we could call, as another fach : that of the the steroid-made soprano?
Jacques TooTight….?
Listenig to his normal, speaking voice this is the worst and crudest falsetto ever recorded. I perefer, pesonally, mezzos to countertenors, but this is an abomination. Daniels has nothing to worry about.
Just judging his body frame alone -- the amount of air capacity he should have to draw on… yet what we then hear is: this screeching freak show performance representing ‘nuts caught in a garage vice’
OK so you know that singing is essentially a hobby of his right? He was a top pro Rugby player…
OT: Opera Depot has released their June collection and given all the Walkure chat around here recently I couldn’t resist downloading their Walkure release, a 1977 performance with Cassilly, Caballe, Nilsson, Stewart from Barcelona. Has anyone heard this performance? You can get a little snippet of the O Herstes Wunder on their site, great stuff. Though I don’t think Caballe knows a single word.
He has a relatively pleasant tone. But I wonder if he could be heard in anything larger than a 400-seat hall.
Each person’s taste is different of course but to me the very concept of a male soprano, or a countertenor, or a sopranista, is abhorrent. Historically they’re the byproducts of an era where heinous crimes against women and young men were committed.
For starters it’s falsetto singing. It might be good falsetto but it’s still falsetto. I’m glad that some of them are making a living out of the trick and that some are indeed exceptional singers but they have become so mostly due to either castration (psychological or physical) or a endocrinological abnormality. I’m aware that male sopranos, countertenors, sopranistas, trebles, etc. are supposedly apples and oranges, but are they really?
It all started in the 15th century because of an abhorrent rule by the Catholic Church, the one prohibiting women to perform on stage. There have recently been calls for the church to issue an official apology for its role in the inhuman crime of castration. There were stories of castrati sequestered in the Vatican for decades for the personal delectation of popes. Fact is, as disgusting as this might have been, women are now allowed on stage, and they can also outperform any male soprano vocally, so the original need for them is completely gone. Yes, due to their immense popularity, several male characters were written throughout the history of opera specifically for these voices but the concept originated from a vicious crime against women (that kept them from performing) and from a even more vicious crime against defenseless young men (that sexually mutilated them). Castration back then, as it is now, was about profit, subjugation, enslavement and unfair punishment. None of its byproducts should be encouraged, even centuries later.
You understand that you are both wrong and seriously misinformed in some of your assertions?
While the castrato voice was a compromise brought on by the rules of the catholic church, there were male falsetists already doing the job before castratos were created.
Spanish falsetists were quiet well thought off and they were considered the best in the business. The pope had several of them in his choir along with (eventually) castratos and pre-pubescent males that did not get mutilated.
“Spanish falsetists were quiet…” -- if only…
Dear Ardath/All,
JS is an alto, def not a soprano.
When it comes to CT singing that is preferable to en travesti, this is what I like to hear:
Michael Maniaci
Matthew Truss
Although, truth be told I’d rather listen to a good female than a so-so CT. But between the choice of a good CT and good female, the choice will always be a CT.