^ nope,her voice sounds more nasal because she is a woman, and we girls tend to have more hight pitched voices. The level of high pitching varies from person to person, but that is not neccesarily related to the nose.
Ayumi struggles so much with her voice because she uses her throat to perform and the throad has very limited capacity of vibration (in other words, how much people can hear you when you sing); when you open too much you start to damage your vocal chords, and using only the throat to perfom is alike to scream all the time, after a while you can't talk at all. I heard she doesn't speak at all before she gets on stage, and that's because of this limitation.
I recently became a soprano (still a student and not a pro, but i'm a soprano now)
and my opera teacher forbid me to use the throat to sing, and taught me that the real strenght of a singer does not come from the throad, it comes from the stomach. when you have full support from there, you can sing several hours and you don't have to hurt yourself when you're singing at all.Also, this allows you to have a better control of your breathing and not having to interrupt yourself each two seconds to breath and sing again.(this is sort of a guild secret among musicians: if it hurts you, you're not performing correctly. also applies for people playing instruments)
There are several ways to sing, and our head has many holes inside the skin,which means that they can be used as a channel to release the sound and vibration towards a public. Pop singers have to learn techniques to use their body, and mariachi singers usually open the chest (chest voice) to be able to perform.Opera singers need to project their voices to the public without the aid of microphone,which means they just have their voices to make themselves be heard in an audience, and this is why they need to use all their bodies to perform. So i hope this can make you understand how stressing can be for a throat to be forced to the carry all the the voice.
Returning to the high pitch, we use a system to classify the voices. if Ayumi sang opera, she would probably be a light soprano, which is the soprano who has the highest pitching in all the human vocal range. even among sopranos (who usually lead the melody because sopranos have the higher tones) there are levels of pitching.
Honestly, i ignore why she uses only her throat to sing when there are several techniques to control this, but it's indeed very damaging what she does to her voice,and that's nothing to admire with all due respect. It's a shame that she spends so much time thinking about her visual show, but she does not do the for her vocal technique. she could indeed do more with her voice, but the only explanations i find are that she doesn't like her natural voice tone or her hate for classrooms doesn't allow her to do explore more.
And last but not least, the technique has nothing to do with emotion. The main quality of ayu is indeed her capacity to transmit emotions,but it's not supposed to be one or the other. I do understand this is a page for fans and you'll support her no matter what, but i think it's fair to point you can have both... please don't kill me
