Powerful Voice Serves Drinks, Too

J.J. White belts out a karaoke tune at Studio K. (Inlander photo: Steven Schlange)

I t’s a Friday night, and people are getting drunk. The bar is producing rounds of shots in the dozens. Every table is packed. It’s the kind of night when big groups of friends grab each other by the shoulders when the speakers emit their favorite songs, sloppily yelling the lyrics as their beers slosh to the floor. Most nights, groups of friends come here — a working class South Hill bar called Studio K — to get liquored up enough to belt out Journey and Dixie Chicks and Bon Jovi in the karaoke room and not care what anyone else thinks. Tonight, a crowd of about 15 people huddle around two microphones and shout the B-52s’ “Love Shack” horribly. But nobody’s really listening. Everyone’s just worried that their name will be called next. So no one seems to notice when the cocktail waitress steps up to the microphone/ Leah Sottile , Inlander. More here.

Question: The Inlander article goes on to say how the bar room becomes transfixed when J.J. White begins singing. Do you know someone with a surprisingly good singing voice?