Josh Groban has a new album ready to go, and it’s going to hit listeners like the opposite of a freight train. That’s not because All that Echoes is weak, nor because Groban’s voice is weak. Quite the contrary—his is the most majestically gentle voice in music today. Straddling the line between pop rock and classical singing is Josh Groban, weighing in at one hundred and thirty pounds.
Groban is the little engine that could. He’s been singing all his life, pursuing the performing arts, working hard, and leaving university for months in order to pursue his musical career. His breakout moment was well-documented, when he filled in for legendary tenor Andrea Bocelli to perform a duet with Céline Dion. Since then, Groban’s been a fixture in the powerful male vocal register circuit.
Groban’s legendary voice is both tenor and baritone, but because there is no authoritative standard voice classification system for non-classical music, it’s probably just best to describe it as ‘impressive.’ All That Echoes is Groban’s sixth effort as a pop-classical artist. It features Groban’s skill as a multilingual singer, performing in Spanish with legendary trumpeter Arturo Sandoval on “Un Alma Más,” and in Italian on a duet “E Ti Prometterò”) with the famed Italian singer Laura Pausini. “Un Alma Más” is one of the strongest tracks of the album, and the fact that Groban is not a native Spanish speaker does not hold him back. Fans of his, and of contemporary classical music, will love All That Echoes.