Editing Overtone singing (section)

===Canada, United States, and Europe===
The 1920s [[Texas|Texan]] singer of cowboy songs, [[Arthur Miles]], independently created a style of overtone singing, similar to sygyt, as a supplement to the normal [[yodelling]] of [[Country music|country western music]]. [[Blind Willie Johnson]], also of Texas, is not a true overtone singer according to [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]], but his ability to shift from guttural grunting noises to a soft lullaby is suggestive of the tonal [[timbre]]s of overtone singing.<ref name=national-geo>{{cite magazine|last=Miller|first=Bruce|title=Overtone Singing Music|url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/overtone_singing_763/en_US|magazine=National Geographic|access-date=February 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526001818/http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/overtone_singing_763/en_US|archive-date=May 26, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Starting in the 1960s, some musicians in the West either have collaborated with traditional throat singers or ventured into the realm of throat singing and overtone singing, or both. Some made original musical contributions and helped this art rediscover its transcultural universality. As harmonics are universal to all physical sounds, the notion of authenticity is best understood in terms of musical quality. Musicians of note in this genre include [[Collegium Vocale Köln]] (who first began using this technique in 1968), [[Michael Vetter]], [[Tran Quang Hai]], [[David Hykes]],<ref>Bellamy and MacLean 2005, 515.</ref> [[Jill Purce]], Jim Cole, [[Ry Cooder]], [[Paul Pena]] (mixing the traditional Tuvan style with that of American Blues), Steve Sklar, and [[Kiva (musician)|Kiva]] (specializing in jazz/ world beat genres and composing for overtone choirs). Others include composer Baird Hersey and his group Prana with [[Krishna Das (singer)|Krishna Das]] (overtone singing and Hindu mantra), as well as Canadian songwriter [[Nathan Rogers]], who has become an adept throat singer and teaches [[Tuva]]n throat singing in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

[[Paul Pena]] was featured in the documentary ''[[Genghis Blues]]'', which tells the story of his pilgrimage to Tuva to compete in their annual throat singing competition. The film won the documentary award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2000.

Tuvan singer [[Sainkho Namtchylak]] has collaborated with [[free jazz]] musicians such as [[Evan Parker]] and [[Ned Rothenberg]]. [[Lester Bowie]] and [[Ornette Coleman]] have worked with the [[Tenores di Bitti]], and [[Eleanor Hovda]] has written a piece using the [[Xhosa people|Xhosa]] style of singing. [[Disc jockey|DJ]]s and performers of [[electronic music]] like [[The KLF]] have also merged their music with throat singing, overtone singing, or with the theory of harmonics behind it.

Tran Quang Hai, a researcher on overtone singing since 1969 in Paris, France, has published many articles, videos on overtone singing from 1971. His film "The Song of Harmonics" directed by Hugo Zemp in 1989 obtained 4 international prizes in Estonia (1990) France (1990) and Canada (1991).

David Hykes, a pioneer in new music, contemplative chant and healing sounds, founded Harmonic Chant in New York in 1975, the year he also founded his legendary group, The Harmonic Choir, considered to be one of the world's pre-eminent overtone ensembles.

[https://www.oberton.org Wolfgang Saus], from Germany, is considered one of the major teachers/performers of "polyphonic overtone singing" in Europe. Formerly trained as a classical baritone, his unique skills make him instantly recognizable. He's also a renowned composer and arranger of polyphonic overtone singing music for solo voice and choirs.

A cappella singer [[Avi Kaplan]] also exhibited overtone singing during his group's ([[Pentatonix]]) performances. He merged throat singing together with a cappella dubstep.

The Overtone Choir Spektrum from Prague, Czech Republic, is unique among overtone choirs, particularly because it connects traditional choir singing with overtone techniques. It is the only one of its kind in the Czech Republic, and one of only a few in the world.[http://www.alikvotnispektrum.cz/en] [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfgjeTDVTcQbUBmhmyiMxfg]

MuOM Ecstatic Voices is another unique and peculiar overtone singing choir, as it combines in its own compositions Western overtone singing and Tuvan/Mongolian throat singing techniques (such as kargyraa, khoomei, sygyt, ezengiler, bonbarnadyr, among others). Created in Barcelona in 2008, with 8 singers on average, it has specialised in the creation of overtone polyphonies, (each singer is emitting an overtone) in addition to the polyphony of the fundamentals, creating two distinguishable sound planes.[https://www.muom.net/en/]

Sherden Overtone Choir was founded in 2016 in Sardinia by Ilaria Orefice and Giovanni Bortoluzzi. The choir combines Tuvan Throat Singing Styles with Sardinian Throat singing.

Contemporary multi-instrumentalist performer The Suitcase Junket employs a self-taught overtone singing, or throat singing technique in his live and recorded performances.

Several contemporary classical composers have incorporated overtone singing into their works. [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] was one of the first, with ''[[Stimmung]]'' in 1968. [[Tran Quang Hai]] (b.1944), a French national of Vietnamese origin, created the composition "Ve Nguon" with the collaboration of Vietnamese composer Nguyen Van Tuong in 1975, in Paris.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} "Past Life Melodies" for SATB chorus by Australian composer [[Sarah Hopkins (composer)|Sarah Hopkins]] (b. 1958) also calls for this technique. In ''Water Passion after St. Matthew'' by [[Tan Dun]], the soprano and bass soloists sing in a variety of techniques including overtone singing of the Mongolian style.

In 2014 German singer [[Anna-Maria Hefele]] went viral on YouTube with her "polyphonic overtone" singing. The [[Huffington Post]] has commented on her "amazing ability" and her singing being "utterly bizarre".<ref name="HP">{{cite web|title=German Musician Anna-Maria Hefele Demonstrates Polyphonic Overtone Singing, And It's Amazing|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/07/polyphonic-overtone-singing_n_5944174.html|website=Huffington Post|date=7 October 2014|access-date=12 October 2014}}</ref> On 10 October 2014, she was number two on The Guardian's Viral Video Chart,<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news|last1=Perraudin|first1=Frances|title=Viral Video Chart|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/10/viral-video-chart-danny-macaskill-kangaroo-boxing-greenpeace-v-lego|access-date=12 October 2014|work=The Guardian|date=10 October 2014}}</ref> with one online video titled ''Polyphonic Overtone Singing'', which features Hefele as she demonstrates and explains overtones. As of February 2023, this video has received more than 20 million views.

Istanbul-based British singer [[Nikolai Galen]] incorporates overtones into his experimental work. They can be heard on his solo album Emanuel Vigeland, the Black Paintings album Screams and Silence and the Hoca Nasreddin album A Headful of Birds.