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This inimitability — the combination of vocal skill, lyrical ambition, and stylistic versatility that makes Ocean unique — is only amplified by the way he’s made himself scarce since Channel Orange’s release.

From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2016

Few artists had the audacity to cover her own composition Four Women though, such is its inimitability.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2016

What distinguishes Merkin—aside from inimitability as a stylist—is her intuition that wounds and celebrity are symbiotic.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2014

Influence is one measure of greatness, but another, opposite one is inimitability.

From Time • Jul. 3, 2014

She could have given no more complete demonstration of the inimitability of this genius than by her recent determination to lecture on the art of interpreting songs.

From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl