Your Favorite Singers?

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Beyonce.
Janet Jackson.
Madonna.
Celine Dion.
Maria Carey.
Whitney Houston.
Usher.
Ne-Yo.
Snoop Dogg.
Eminem.
George Michael.
Boy George.


I love music.

Freddie Mercury and Janis Joplin top my list.

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Lata Mangeshkar
Dido (Absolutely love her voice)

I recently discovered Laufey & I can't get enough of her voice.

Not so much a singer, but I could hear Kelly MacDonald talk for hours in her Scottish accent.

Karen Carpenter
Shirley Bassey
Gladys Knight
Natalie Merchant
Dale Bozzio

Jim Croce
Christopher Cross
Frank Sinatra
Al Green
Cy Curnin
Benjamin Orr
Greg Lake
Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel
John Wetton
David Gates
Peter Cetera
Elvis

burton cummings
paul rodgers

I did a top 20 greatest singers (excluding opera singers), as follows:

20. Samara Joy
19. Rhianna
18. Patti Labelle
17. Marvin Gaye
16. Ray Charles
15. Jessie J
14. Billy Preston
13. Sade
12. Barbra Streisand
11. Aretha Franklin
10. Myles Kennedy
9. Judy Garland
8. BB King
7. Ella Fitzgerald
6. Chris Stapleton
5. Celine Dion
4. Donny Hathaway
3. George Michael
2. Elvis Presley
1. Whitney Houston

Let me tell you something
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/roNjraHfKyU

This video starts almost immediately after she'd done a dance routine for 3 songs

So many amazing bits of vocalisation in this performance, and surely the greatest ever at 3.23-3.36. Just astonishing that a human voice can do that. Complete control.


This one she follows Pavarotti, walks on stage without a warm up and just knocks this out:


Ridiculous.



Most of her recordings are lost/unavailable or never even recorded in the first place, but there are still so many that are just astonishing.

Love you Whitney. You were truly the greatest.
RIPx

Kate Bush
Amanda Lear
Demis Roussos
Annie Lennox
Matt Monro
Alison Moyet
Justin Hayward
Neil Diamond
Helen Shapiro

Oops, forgot Charles Aznavour

Guessing you’re British having liked Alison Moyet & Matt Monro?

I thought both singers had international success?

Whatever. Just guessing.

I guess I’ll add to this.

Sade
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughn
Diana Krall
Whitney Houston
Taylor Dayne

Eric Burdon
Taj Mahal
Nat King Cole
Judy Collins
Gary Puckett
Seal

Just a few favorites, not in order, but as I happened to think of them:

Roy Orbison
Ella Fitzgerald
Bing Crosby
Cass Elliot
Ken Curtis
Johnny Cash
Fred Astaire
Julie Andrews
Judith Durham
Martha Tilton
Andy Williams
Mario Lanza

Speaking of Roy, the recently departed JD Souther had a great song in the tradition of Roy Orbison I think with "You're Only Lonely"

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