Richard Jose (Strong Ultra-High Tenor)- Rose of My Life (1904).mp4

Cornish-born Richard Jose (1862-1941), once allegedly described by Enrico Caruso as “the world’s greatest balladeer“, gained considerable fame in America around the turn of the 19th/20th Century as a popular ballad singer. Though often billed as a countertenor, he would never have sung much of the material usually associated with that voice, nor does his style bear any resemblance to most people’s modern conception thereof. What Jose does have is a very strong tenor voice which seems to centre around a much