Your Favorite Voices and Singers Male & Female?

OneEyedDiva

OneEyedDiva

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Sometimes the material singers choose determine whether or not they make my favorite singers list.
Anyway..my favorite female voice: Chaka Khan. Favorite male voice: my dear friend Hunter Hayes (of N.J.). Other favorite voices belong to:
Scotty & Walter (twin brothers who lead The Whispers)
Michael McDonald
Emanuel Raheim LeBlanc (of GQ...remember the song Disco Nights)
Luther Vandross
Vesta (Williams), who sounded a lot like Chaka
Favorite singers besides those listed above: Maxwell, Kem, Eryka Badu. Mary J Blige and Jill Scott
 

I've come to like Mark Knopfler's voice. As a teenager I thought he couldn't sing and talked his way through songs - Money For Nothing being an example. Although he does talk-sing in some songs he does actually have a nice deep musical voice when he sings and as he as got older (like me) he has started singing more and changed his style to more Country. I also like Tom Petty and Neil Diamond's voices. In female voices I like Mama Cass and Helen Reddy. All oldies - I can't think of any modern singers who I like just for their voices. Tends to be the song I like.
 
horseless carriage said:
Oh dear, this baby boomer's taste in music goes back much further. Influenced by dance I do so love dancing The Rumba to Dean Martin's "Sway."

How we love the combined voices of The Andrews Sisters, how we love jiving to The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

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Dean Martin has a lovely voice. I like him too!
 
The three singers in The Band had great voices: Rick Danko, Levon Helm, and Richard Manuel.
And of course, Paul McCartney and John Lennon
I saw Annie Lennox last night on a show honoring Joni Mitchel. They both have great voices, although Joni's voice isn't what it used to be. James Taylor performed, also. He has a great voice, too.
John Fogerty was great during the CCR years.
Ray Charles had a great voice and inspired countless soul singers.
Glen Frey and Randy Meisner of the Eagles had some great pipes.

Who else... there are some others but that's what comes to mind, and my dog needs a walk. :)
 
Before my time, but I think this voice on this particular song is amazing, so effortless, and with such passion and emotion. The vibrato, and in places the voice cry’s. A mix of gentleness and then huge power, but with control, from this male voice. So colourful. I don’t think most people listen to peoples voices enough.

 
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Before my time, but I think this voice on this particular song is amazing, so effortless, and with such passion and emotion. The vibrato, and in places the voice cry’s. A mix of gentleness and then huge power, but with control, from this male voice. So colourful. I don’t think most people listen to peoples voices enough.

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That was a great, great song and you are right about his powerful voice.
 
Another favourite voice of mine. Adele singing live in a radio studio. Powerful, soulful, and emotive -- effortless? At 4:01 she seems humbled by the admiration, or do you see something else?

There are some backing vocals in this that seem pre-recorded, and added later? There are quite a few subtle voice inflection differences here in Adele’s voice compared to the studio version, if you were to listen closely.

 
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I love beer and cigarette male voices. Has really little to do with how classically correct they sing. I do love music from others. Female voices I love vary…from Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Naomi Judd, Adele. But probably damaged my hearing listening to John Hiatt and Rosanne Cash duet as a teenager.
 
My last one here.

Like or loathe him, as some seem to, I like his unique vocal style that blends raw power and emotion. A grittiness and roughness?

As for the song. Think UK 1984/1985 coal miners strike, and the effect it had on some couples and families. Along with some other social implications, and also father against son, strikers vs non strikers. The song was written because of that, and more.

 
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Ummm, ok...Nat King Cole- Johnny Mathis- Marvin Gaye- Brook Benton- Sam Cooke- David Ruffin- Levi Stubbs- Clyde McPhatter- Jackie Wilson- Smokey Robinson- Eddie Kendricks- Jerry Butler.....Ella- Dinah Washington- Sarah Vaughan- Chaka Khan- Melba Moore- Nancy Wilson- Wanda Rodgers- Tina Marie- Dinah Shore- Carla Thomas- Dionne Warwick- Mary Wells- Aretha.
 

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