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Top ten favorite vocalists

That's one of the problems of having choose ten favourites from so many genres :). If I was doing a top ten rock vocalists, Plant would be very high, along with Morrison, Coverdale, Bowie & usual suspects.
 
Pat Benatar

Chrissie Hynde

Gwen Stefani

Joni Mitchell (everything she did till about 1980)

Judith Durham (of The Seekers)

Roy Orbison

Dusty Springfield

Fred Astaire (yes, he could sing as well as dance!)

Bobby Short

And a rather obscure one: Rockabilly/R&B singer Joyce Harris. Why didn't this girl become more famous?
 
In no Order
Klaus Meine
Paul Rodgers
Ann Wilson
Roger Daltrey
Steve Tyler
Steve Perry
Bono
Stevie Nicks
Bernie Shaw (Uriah Heep)
Ronnie & Johnny Van Zant (tie)
 
In no particular order:
Luciano Pavarotti
Plácido Domingo
Sarah Brightman
Ronnie James Dio
Bruce Dickinson
Michael Sweet
Blackie Lawless
Dani Filth
Angela Gossow
Alexi Laiho

EDIT: Well, yes, there is an order. The first 3 are opera singers. The next 4 are metal singers. The last 3 are screamers.
 
This is so hard that I have to split it into male and female voices.


Ten great male voices:

Roy Orbison. My all time favourite. The one pop vocalist I have most often tried and failed to emulate.

Freddie Mercury. The most magnificent male voice ever.

Tom Waits. Funny, sad, angry, and above all, unique.

Placido Domingo. One of my favourite opera singers.

Louis Armstrong. Jazz's most unique and joyous voice.

Robert Plant. The hard rock standard that everyone else followed.

George Harrison. An understated and soulful voice.

Bryn Terfel. Big, bold, and powerful.

Leonard Cohen. Never has a pop and rock bass voice sounded so beautiful.

Rob Brydon. Wow.


Ten great female voices:

Billie Holliday. Words fail me.

Karen Carpenter. An alto voice that is beyond beautiful.

Kate Bush. Just that soaring high voice.

Suzi Quatro. One of my favourite female rock vocalists. Full of joy and attitude.

Stevie Nicks. A voice to fall in love with.

Amy Winehouse. Every note she sang carried a story and a hidden pain.

Annie Lennox. A voice I grew up with, like an old and familiar friend.

Björk. The most interesting voice in the world. Of any form.

Katherine Jenkins. Still my favourite classical singer.

Imogen Heap. Taking singing to the next level.

Cerys Matthews. I knew I couldn't keep this list to ten.:p Such an irresistible voice.
 
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^ I also love Bjork. I was displeased with Biophilia though. I appreciate the effort to experiment, but she has moved so far from traditional songwriting that I hesitate even to call it music in places, more like a collection of random noises.

I thought Volta trod that line but stayed on the right side of it, love that album, but Biophilia went over the edge for me. Can't get into it.
 
In no order whatever (except perhaps the first two):

Christine McVie - the real and grossly underrated (vocal) talent in Fleetwood Mac (I like Stevie Nicks as much as anyone else, however)

Louis Armstrong - literally my earliest musical influence (so to speak)

Kate Bush - unusual and awesome

Tracy Chapman

Barbra Streisand - particularly when she just sings and doesn't go with the melodrama

Judith Durham

Deborah Harry

Aretha Franklin

P!nk

Annie Lennox


I'm not sure what it says about me that almost all my favourite singers - according to today's list, anyway - are women, but there it is. :bolian:
 
Pingfah said:
^ I also love Bjork. I was displeased with Biophilia though. I appreciate the effort to experiment, but she has moved so far from traditional songwriting that I hesitate even to call it music in places, more like a collection of random noises.

I thought Volta trod that line but stayed on the right side of it, love that album, but Biophilia went over the edge for me. Can't get into it.
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She made my list, and love everything from Debut to Volta, but ashamed haven't heard Biophilia yet. I remember the reviews being mixed...
 
2takesfrakes said:
Scott Weiland
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Yah, if I had to pick one male vocalist, (apart from Freddie Mercury who is obviously and unarguably the greatest rock vocalist of all time, past, present and future), it would be Scott Weiland.

He has a way with melody that is quite unlike anybody else. He's well known for being very inconsistent live, but I have seen STP three times and he absolutely killed it every time.
 
Pingfah said:
Scott Weiland [...] has a way with melody that is quite unlike anybody else. He's well known for being very inconsistent live, but I have seen STP three times and he absolutely killed it every time.
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That about sums him up and are my feelings, exactly. Scott's just got an amazing talent. He didn't miss his calling in life, that's for sure ... :cool:
 
Janis Joplin.

Her voice was so raw and so powerful. She didn't so much sing as she spit fire from her soul.

:techman:
 
Gaithers

Vince gill

Alan Jackson

Carrie underwood

Brad pasley

The Martins

Amy grant

Michael w smith

Chris tomlin

Dc talk
 
Tori Amos

:adore:

ETA:

Taylor Swift
Avril Lavigne
Simone Johanna Maria (EPICA)
Gavin Rossdale
Colbie Caillat
Shania Twain
Paula Abdul
Madonna
Corey Taylor (Slipknot/StoneSour)

ADD: Gloria Estefan <3
 
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