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Well, can you?

I sang in a punk band in college, but I can't sing for reals. I've been mouthing along to words in singing situations for years, and singing situations leave me way uncomfortable. I'm reminded that I wish church were a passive activity where I wasn't expected to stand/sing/shake hands with people. Leave me alone and let me sit here and think!

Anyway, back to singing. Can you?

I've been told that the tone-deaf (those who cannot hit a note) are people whose mothers (or similar) never sang to them as children. So that's why Bob Dylan can sing.

I'd like to think so...

i can sing well enough to keep myself entertained.

janine wrote: "i can sing well enough to keep myself entertained."

Ditto. Emphasis on myself.

I think so. I love it. :) I took some advanced vocal classes through music ed in college.

Sometimes I can channel Patsy Cline, in the shower.

I can sing. Growing up in a family of musicians, it's a requirement. I took private voice lessons in hs. Now I only sing in public if I'm absolutely forced to sing (funerals, weddings, Easter).

no. not at all. my family are all singers and my wife, son and daughter still sing lots. my daughter and my son travel and sing for events and at clubs and such and my wife used to travel all over the U.S. and sing and also did the national anthem at a few indiana pacers games when they would call and ask. that all being said, no. i am a horrible singer.

I used to do full-band karaoke, which was always fun. I can hold a tune, but I wouldn't call myself a good singer.

One of my daughters can sing. At Thanksgiving she and I regaled my nephew's wife with our vast collection of Broadway Show tunes. She was really impressed, but quite drunk. So give me the right audience, and yes! Life is a Cabaret, Old Chum!

I can not sing. But I love karaoke when inebriated.

I lipsynced through choir from fifth through eighth grades, including performances at Lincoln Center. No sound escaped my lips.
It took me a while to realize I was willing to sing by my own rules. I wouldn't make it past American Idol's first cut. My voice is unique, my range is limited. I'm okay with that. It's my own.

I love to sing, and I do it all the time in the car. Fair warning to anyone who wants a ride with me. :)

But I have a limited range, and my voice is, well, it's unique, like Sarah Pi's, and while I can hold a tune, I'm happier singing along with the radio than on my own.

Sally wrote: "I can not sing. But I love karaoke when inebriated."

OH! Oh! Me, too!!!

I was told in middle school choir that I had near-perfect pitch... but my voice was so soft that I didn't make it in Jazz Choir auditions.

When I was a Junior I played Yenta in Fiddler on the Roof (thinking "Oh, this is a character part, which I can do, and I won't have to sing") and they made me sing a solo (Curses!), which I think was pretty horrible (for 4 consecutive performances). Well, at least I pulled off playing an old batty woman, awful singing or not.

Now I only sing for myself in the fogged up mirror after a shower.... nekkid.
But my nekkid dancing is far better. :)

I like singing (no one likes to hear me sing). I confess I sing with my headphones on. I find nothing more torturous then catching the train to work and needing to restrain myself when I listen to music.

I am at work right now, everyone else has gone home. I am listening to music and singing very loudly, bliss.

Sure, I can sing. But I don't really think anybody would want to listen. It's sort of a running joke with friends and family, my singing voice. I sing in the car and while doing housework and other times.