He is one of the best.In my eyes I'd say Phillip Bailey.

Love Prince but I'd probably go with Smokey, Curtis Mayfield or Maxwell.

alphachannel said:

What??? No one said Sylvester or Eddie Kendricks??

Prince's falsetto sounds just like Sylvester's to me.

vainandy said:

So many great falsettos come close if not better....Wayne Cooper from Cameo probably being the best, Sylvester, Philip Bailey from Earth, Wind, and Fire, Otis Stokes from Lakeside, Bobby Nunn, Ebonee Webb, a lot of the 1970s slow jam groups such as Enchantment, The Stylistics, Blue Magic, Heatwave, Switch, Terry Huff and Special Delivery, The Delfonics....just soooooo many great falsettos out there.

Lots of them come close but Prince's falsetto is my personal favorite because it just has a certain "sassiness" and "gayness" to it that I love so much. Wayne Cooper and Sylvester come damn close though but Prince is still the Head Queen.

Aw yeah baby...we had sooo much good stuff to choose from. My fave would have to be the guy from Enchantment.

I gotta say, Prince's falsetto is special though. I love the subtle, gritty texture he sometimes adds to it.

The very best I experienced was live at the First Avenue aftershow on 7/7/7 when he did Gotta Broken Heart...OMG!!! he killed it so bad that night that I would have fallen out on the damn floor if there was room,

He's good, but not the best. Milton Nascimento is one of the best tho.

WaterInYourBath said:

alphachannel said:

What??? No one said Sylvester or Eddie Kendricks??

Prince's falsetto sounds just like Sylvester's to me.

he is not the best anything of anytime...

P's falsetto is what got me in the first place. That's what reeled me in. The first time I heard it on the radio, I thought, *who is that?* I love his falsetto voice. You all have already brought up some great names. I also like the falsetto from the singers in The Floaters, the Dynamic Superiors, and Black Ivory. I loved hearing the songs my older relatives would play back in the day.

Prince puts his "mark" on a song. The man can turn a song all the way out. That's why I love his falsetto. He puts that extra oomph on it, and you know it's him. Even when he does covers, he makes it his....he can break down a song like no other. He is my favorite for that reason. Prince did Scandalous, Insatiable and Adore back to back at the W2A LA show, & I was in heaven. I'm into his more popular songs done in falsetto but there are gems that he's done that I absolutely love like Crucial, Dark, & For You (& many others). Friends ask me to name some of my fave Prince songs, I tell them, and they say, "Huh, never heard it".

Out of the singers who are still around, for me it's Prince, Maxwell, then D'Angelo in that order.

MadamGoodnight said:

P's falsetto is what got me in the first place. That's what reeled me in. The first time I heard it on the radio, I thought, *who is that?* I love his falsetto voice. You all have already brought up some great names. I also like the falsetto from the singers in The Floaters, the Dynamic Superiors, and Black Ivory. I loved hearing the songs my older relatives would play back in the day.

Prince puts his "mark" on a song. The man can turn a song all the way out. That's why I love his falsetto. He puts that extra oomph on it, and you know it's him. Even when he does covers, he makes it his....he can break down a song like no other. He is my favorite for that reason. Prince did Scandalous, Insatiable and Adore back to back at the W2A LA show, & I was in heaven. I'm into his more popular songs done in falsetto but there are gems that he's done that I absolutely love like Crucial, Dark, & For You (& many others). Friends ask me to name some of my fave Prince songs, I tell them, and they say, "Huh, never heard it".

Out of the singers who are still around, for me it's Prince, Maxwell, then D'Angelo in that order.

Don't forget Soft & Wet.

Graycap23 said:

MadamGoodnight said:

P's falsetto is what got me in the first place. That's what reeled me in. The first time I heard it on the radio, I thought, *who is that?* I love his falsetto voice. You all have already brought up some great names. I also like the falsetto from the singers in The Floaters, the Dynamic Superiors, and Black Ivory. I loved hearing the songs my older relatives would play back in the day.

Prince puts his "mark" on a song. The man can turn a song all the way out. That's why I love his falsetto. He puts that extra oomph on it, and you know it's him. Even when he does covers, he makes it his....he can break down a song like no other. He is my favorite for that reason. Prince did Scandalous, Insatiable and Adore back to back at the W2A LA show, & I was in heaven. I'm into his more popular songs done in falsetto but there are gems that he's done that I absolutely love like Crucial, Dark, & For You (& many others). Friends ask me to name some of my fave Prince songs, I tell them, and they say, "Huh, never heard it".

Out of the singers who are still around, for me it's Prince, Maxwell, then D'Angelo in that order.

Don't forget Soft & Wet.

Never. I played that yesterday. That's what got me hooked.

MadamGoodnight said:

P's falsetto is what got me in the first place. That's what reeled me in. The first time I heard it on the radio, I thought, *who is that?* I love his falsetto voice. You all have already brought up some great names. I also like the falsetto from the singers in The Floaters, the Dynamic Superiors, and Black Ivory. I loved hearing the songs my older relatives would play back in the day.

Prince puts his "mark" on a song. The man can turn a song all the way out. That's why I love his falsetto. He puts that extra oomph on it, and you know it's him. Even when he does covers, he makes it his....he can break down a song like no other. He is my favorite for that reason. Prince did Scandalous, Insatiable and Adore back to back at the W2A LA show, & I was in heaven. I'm into his more popular songs done in falsetto but there are gems that he's done that I absolutely love like Crucial, Dark, & For You (& many others). Friends ask me to name some of my fave Prince songs, I tell them, and they say, "Huh, never heard it".

Out of the singers who are still around, for me it's Prince, Maxwell, then D'Angelo in that order.

My favorite was back when Prince used to sing in his falsetto only.

Prince is definitely one of the best, but Bobby Debarge gives the goosebumps!

vainandy said:

MadamGoodnight said:

P's falsetto is what got me in the first place. That's what reeled me in. The first time I heard it on the radio, I thought, *who is that?* I love his falsetto voice. You all have already brought up some great names. I also like the falsetto from the singers in The Floaters, the Dynamic Superiors, and Black Ivory. I loved hearing the songs my older relatives would play back in the day.

Prince puts his "mark" on a song. The man can turn a song all the way out. That's why I love his falsetto. He puts that extra oomph on it, and you know it's him. Even when he does covers, he makes it his....he can break down a song like no other. He is my favorite for that reason. Prince did Scandalous, Insatiable and Adore back to back at the W2A LA show, & I was in heaven. I'm into his more popular songs done in falsetto but there are gems that he's done that I absolutely love like Crucial, Dark, & For You (& many others). Friends ask me to name some of my fave Prince songs, I tell them, and they say, "Huh, never heard it".

Out of the singers who are still around, for me it's Prince, Maxwell, then D'Angelo in that order.

My favorite was back when Prince used to sing in his falsetto only.

I play those early Prince songs quite often Andy.

sunlite said:

Prince is definitely one of the best, but Bobby Debarge gives the goosebumps!

My fave song w/ Bobby on it is Love Over And Over Again, especially towards the end.