A perfect harmony is always pretty. But some of the best duets derive their power--and their charm--from the way that they blend two very different voices. Consider this summer's inescapable "California Gurls": The Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg collaboration layered a clear, lilting soprano over a somewhat rougher male vocal to memorable (and catchy) effect.
A similar dynamic is at work in the relationship between Lea Michele and Cory Monteith, the artfully mismatched pair at the center of FOX's musical smash hit Glee. The two actors have even less in common than their in-love alter egos, Rachel and Finn: Lea's an ambitious ex-New Yorker who made her Broadway debut at the age of eight--the part of a driven would-be star was written, series cocreator Ryan Murphy has said, with her in mind. And Cory's a Canadian-born former odd-jobber who was so unsure of his singing that he elected to "drum on Tupperware and wineglasses" with a pair of unsharpened pencils during his first audition for the show.
Yet at their recent Teen Vogue interview, conducted over lunch at a favorite Los Angeles caf�, the two stars demonstrated a winningly effervescent--and utterly un-fake-able--rapport.
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