Question: Waltz #2 is a song by what Nebraska singer-songwriter with a distinctive vocal style?
Context: Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.  Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived for much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity.  Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient with piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica.  Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies. Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud (] ; born 11 May 1952), is a popular French singer, songwriter and actor.  His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style.  Several of his songs are popular classics in France, including the sea tale "Dès que le vent soufflera", the irreverent "Laisse béton", the ballad ""Morgane de toi"" and the nostalgic ""Mistral gagnant"".  However, with the exception of a recording of "Miss Maggie" in English and a franglais recording of "It is not because you are", his work is almost unknown outside the French-speaking world. Steven Kapur (born 11 May 1967), better known by the stage name Apache Indian, is a British singer-songwriter and reggae DJ.  He is noted for a distinctive vocal style that is a fusion of Indian, Jamaican and English cultural elements.  Apache Indian was the earliest UK ragga artist of Asian origin to make an impact on the UK charts with a series of hits during the nineties. Joel Culpepper (born 25 May 1984) is an R&B singer-songwriter from London, England.  With a style inspired by British fashion and modern culture, he has become known for his distinctive vocal style and well received stage performances. James Francis "Jimmy" Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film, though he had his greatest impact in film.  Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances.  He is best remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in movies such as "The Public Enemy" (1931), "Taxi! " (1932), "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), and "White Heat" (1949), and was typecast or limited by this view earlier in his career.  In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.  Orson Welles said of Cagney, "[he was] maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera", and Stanley Kubrick considered him to be one of the best actors of all time. "Waltz #2 (XO)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.  It was released in 1998 by record label DreamWorks as the first single from his fourth studio album, "XO". Slim & Slam was a musical partnership in the late 1930s and early 1940s consisting of Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (vocals, guitar, vibes and piano) and Leroy Elliott "Slam" Stewart (bass and vocals).  They produced novelty jazz numbers featuring Slim's distinctive vocal style with vocalese and scats, hipster argot and nonce words.  Sam Allen played piano and Pompey "Gus" Dobson played drums on most of their early recordings. The Sleepy Jackson are an Australian alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia.  The band's name was inspired by a former drummer who was narcoleptic.  The band revolves around the distinctive vocal style of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Luke Steele.  Stemming from a musical family, Luke's father Rick Steele is a local blues musician, and two of Luke's siblings are also musicians, with brother Jesse a former member of The Sleepy Jackson (and currently performing with father Rick in The Hot Biscuit Band), and sister Katy, who fronts another Perth rock band, Little Birdy.  While a series of acclaimed EPs brought The Sleepy Jackson to a broader musical attention of Australia, it was the release of their 2003 album "Lovers" and 2006 second album "Personality – One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird" that directed significant international focus upon the band. Concrete Blonde were an alternative rock band based in the United States.  They were active from 1982 to 1995, from 2001 to 2004, and then reunited in 2010 and split up again in 2012.  They are best known for their 1990 album "Bloodletting", their top 20 single "Joey", and Johnette Napolitano's distinctive vocal style. "The Original Wrapper" (sometimes written as "The Original Rapper") is a song by American recording artist Lou Reed from his fourteenth solo studio album, "Mistrial" (1986).  The title refers to the practice of keeping products in their original packaging.  It can also be interpreted as a pun on "rapper," referring to Reed's distinctive vocal style.
Answer: Elliott Smith