Who is your favourite singer all time? Male/female

[93gilmour93]

Chris Cornell/Maynard James Keenan/Axl Rose/Ozzy/Mike Patton ( can’t decide so it’s a tie lol)

Cristina Scabbia

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

it depends on the day and the time of that day. moods will change constantly. one moment it's brad delp or steve perry. hours later it could be halford, tate, ozzy or dio. tomorrow it could be a van halen playlist or album. michael anthony is fantastic!!! background vox just icing on a nicely layered cake.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

Sam Hagar
Brad Delp
Graham Bonnet
David Coverdale

Lee Aaron

 

[Behn Wilson]

Male: Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson & Freddie Mercury. Hon mention to Ozzy

Female: Karen Carpenter. She had a almost mystical quality to her voice, she is head and shoulders my favorite female singer

 

[tarheelhockey]

Hard question because there are so many great answers.

I'm leaning toward Aretha. She can sing a terrible song and her voice still makes it listenable. If the song is good, her voice makes it legendary.

The male category is tough because there's a bit of a cluster at the top. Maybe Freddie Mercury.

My favorite single vocal performance is Marvin Gaye's version of "Heard It Through the Grapevine". He absolutely slays every line in that song with great vocal runs, performing every single syllable with intent, while somehow still making it sound as natural as casual speech. Showing off chops is one thing, seducing an audience is something totally different... he did both at the same time across an entire track.

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

Hard question because there are so many great answers.

I'm leaning toward Aretha. She can sing a terrible song and her voice still makes it listenable. If the song is good, her voice makes it legendary.

The male category is tough because there's a bit of a cluster at the top. Maybe Freddie Mercury.

My favorite single vocal performance is Marvin Gaye's version of "Heard It Through the Grapevine". He absolutely slays every line in that song with great vocal runs, performing every single syllable with intent, while somehow still making it sound as natural as casual speech. Showing off chops is one thing, seducing an audience is something totally different... he did both at the same time across an entire track.

this version is great but yet i still prefer the ccr version. fogerty sings great on it, and you can just bug out to it for over 11 minutes.

 

[Fripp]

Steve Hogarth

 

[Crow]

Julian Casablancas

 

[Behn Wilson]

Enrico Pallazzo

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Favorite male singer for me would have to be Freddie Mercury. Female not sure.

Difficult for me to get it down to one favorite male singer..

Layne Staley
G. Danzig
Jim Morrison
Elvis

Jim Morrison is a complicated pick for me. I absolutely LOVE his voice. It was fantastic. But I absolutely HATE The Doors so in order to hear it I need to listen to music I legitimately don't like at all.

 

[kihei]

Smokey Robinson

Smokey for the male singer, but I forgot Billie Holiday who trumps everybody else.

 

[Lshap]

Jim Morrison is a complicated pick for me. I absolutely LOVE his voice. It was fantastic. But I absolutely HATE The Doors so in order to hear it I need to listen to music I legitimately don't like at all.

So that means you prefer Morrison's solo records to his work with The Doors?

Kidding. I'm trying to figure out how you came to love a voice that is associated solely through songs you dislike.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

So that means you prefer Morrison's solo records to his work with The Doors?

Kidding. I'm trying to figure out how you came to love a voice that is associated solely through songs you dislike.

You seriously can't enjoy a person's vocals even though they're singing songs you dislike? Really? I didn't think it was that out of the ordinary.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Since the thread has been changed to favorites, I'll add Otis Redding, Tom Waits and Nina Simone to my choices. Patton and Galas are still probably on top, party because they are IMO the "best" (as in none of the others could even attempt to do what they did).

 

[Lshap]

You seriously can't enjoy a person's vocals even though they're singing songs you dislike? Really? I didn't think it was that out of the ordinary.

It wasn't meant as a criticism. It just struck me as unusual to single out someone's voice while disliking the music the voice is associated with. For me, a singing voice can only be judged in context of the songs it sings.

Maybe a better question is: what music would you have liked to have heard Morrison sing?

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

Favorite male singer for me would have to be Freddie Mercury. Female not sure.

Jim Morrison is a complicated pick for me. I absolutely LOVE his voice. It was fantastic. But I absolutely HATE The Doors so in order to hear it I need to listen to music I legitimately don't like at all.

i get it. a lot of doors songs have those keyboards all over the place, making it sound like you're attending a creepy crap carnival. but damn to despise them - aah okay.

light my fire
roadhouse blues
la woman
five to one

nah? none of these do it for you?

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

It wasn't meant as a criticism. It just struck me as unusual to single out someone's voice while disliking the music the voice is associated with. For me, a singing voice can only be judged in context of the songs it sings.

Maybe a better question is: what music would you have liked to have heard Morrison sing?

Well... I really like Bon Jovi's voice (at his peak, not today - he could really play on different emotions, and with impressive range), but there's barely two or three songs that I think are "ok", the rest is just pure crap...

 

[phrenssoa]

I personally love vocalists who can sing with emotion. The first song that comes to mind when I think of a great vocal performance is Jeff Buckley's Lover, You Should've Come Over.



I think Adele deserves a mention too.



I also absolutely love Mikael Akerfeldt, who combines deadly screaming abilities with beautiful soft vocals.



Danny Worsnop's performance on Asking Alexandria's first album is amazing. Unfortunately I think that his voice has gone downhill a bit over the years. This song in particular shows off his range (screaming and singing):



Otis Redding, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder are all amazing vocalists as well.

Chris Cornell and Layne Staley also had great, powerful voices.

Freddie Mercury of course is incredible.

Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey are incredibly skilled vocalists (though I don't love their music).

Though I don't generally go out of my way to listen to opera, I certainly appreciate the talent that it requires, and no one does it better than Luciano Pavarotti.

Those are just a few names off the top of my head.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Bon Scott ,Elvis Costello
Linda Ronstatd (an amazing voice but her music is crap)
Lady gaga ,she belts it in a star is born.
Christina Aguilera
Laurin Hill

Some Mike Patton if ya heed it ,he can be pretty silky ,he kills war pigs.

 

[Hippasus]

Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance (Beherit)
Tom Warrior (Hellhammer, Celtic Frost)
Bob Marley (Bob Marley and the Wailers, solo albums)
Abbath (Immortal)
Beth Gibbons (Portishead, solo album)
Mark Hollis (Talk Talk, solo album)
Cat Power
Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds (Blasphemy)
Ihshan (Emperor)
Johnny Cash
Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)
Shakira
Svartedoden / Lik (Beketh Nexehmu)
Ray Davies (The Kinks)

 

[VMBM]

Some of my favs that haven't been mentioned yet:

Howlin' Wolf
Little Richard
Jackie Wilson
Little Willie John
Paul Rodgers
Lowell George
Wilson Pickett
Steve Marriott
Edith Piaf
Bobby Womack

Damn, just too many... Especially in soul/R&B.

Enrico Pallazzo

Bianca Castafiore

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Some of my favs that haven't been mentioned yet:

Howlin' Wolf

Yes!

 

[Hippasus]

Chris Reifert (Autopsy)
Dead (Morbid, Mayhem)
Nocturno Culto (Darkthrone)

 

[Jack Straw]

I've always loved Natalie Merchant's voice

 

[Hippasus]

Paul Ledney (Profanatica, Havohej, etc.)
Maximilien "The Impaler of Trendies" Varnier / Daniel "Pan" Vaross (Worship)
Matti Tilaeus (Skepticism)
Nick Hansen, Damon Good (Mournful Congregation)