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For the rest of the film Jenkins uses animation, vintage clips and a lot of interviews to re-create the whole Biz Markie experience: the raspy voice, the tuneless singing, and the love of anything kitschy, catchy and fun.
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Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
That baggy, shambling gang of tuneless no-hopers swept along on the glassy-eyed tide of post-acid house euphoria?
—Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023
Rather, his is a voice singing freely in a tuneless land.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
The singer's timorous, tuneless falsetto convinced me to put in a bid, but somebody else won the auction for $113.61.
—Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
That baggy, shambling gang of tuneless no-hopers swept along on the glassy-eyed tide of post-acid house euphoria?
—Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023
Rather, his is a voice singing freely in a tuneless land.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
The singer's timorous, tuneless falsetto convinced me to put in a bid, but somebody else won the auction for $113.61.
—Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
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First Known Use
1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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