Here's MY top 5 list of who I think has or had the most unique voice that I'VE ever heard. Feel free to make YOUR OWN lists, agree, disagree, bite my head off or whatever lol.

5. Prince (of course - he can switch from the highest high note to the lowest low note in a second. defintely unique)

4. Barry White (deep and sexy, how often do you find a voice like barry's?)

3. Tina Turner (Strong, raspy and soulful. and when she began her pop career, she added a certain sensuality to it. very rare.)

2. Louis Armstrong (who else can sing like they have a frog in their throat and make it sound beautiful? lol)

1. Billie Holiday (her voice almost brings me to tears when i hear it. such raw emotion in her voice. she wasn't the best singer and her range wasn't all that much but when she sang, she told a story. instead of listening to her, you experienced her. especially when you thought about what a hard life she had. listen to one of her songs while reading her bio, it's so haunting. strange fruit, god bless the child. what more can i say?)

1. Sam Cooke
2. George Benson
3. Jerry Butler
4. George Michael
5. Michael Jackson
6. Tina Turner
7. Lenny Kravitz

5.Kate Bush(so girly....when she sings she sounds like such a little girl..just hear..wuthering heights..the orginal vocal version)

4. Gackt(thought half the time,i dont know what he's saying,he makes such good melody with his voice)

3.Bjork(do i need to say more)

2.David Bowie(...why number..becuase when i see unique.i think of one only person.)

1.Andi Sex Gang(from sex gang children,just listening to this band he starts singing nicely then he wails,and moans..i hate making lists.

a few that come to mind are:

louis armstrong
björk
tom waits
cyndi lauper
macy gray
nick cave
shakira

chico4U said:

add these ladies as well...

belinda carlisle
cher
stevie nicks

Hello? Aren't you all forgetting someone? Perhaps the greatest writer of the 20th Century?

www.bobdylan.com

learn it!

Anxiety said:[quote][img]



who be that..its look like that women from the addams family..

1. Satchmo


2. Paul Robeson


3. Barry White


4. Frank Sinatra


5. Smokey Robinson

jackmitz said:

Dylan has a unique voice, but it's been copied, a truly unique voice can't be copied. Donovan, who is great, had a dead on Dylan early on.

weepingwall said:[quote]

Anxiety said:

close. it's diamanda galas. i think she's one of the most - if not THE most - amazing modern vocalist alive today. she's operatically trained and she was also trained in piano by ornette coleman. ya can't really get an appreciation of her talent from her studio albums, but live? oh. my. god.

Anxiety said:

I just did a google, and that's the least scariest pic of her...what is she in to?

lilgish said:

yeah, she's not exactly one for poodle skirts and earthtones.

i think she was much wilder and more into performance art-type stuff when she was younger, but over the past decade or so, she's been performing a lot of old blues, jazz and old country standards, pretty much just by herself, no band, just her singing and accompanying herself on piano.

she wrote a big trilogy in the mid- to late-80s comparing AIDS to the plague and meditating on the hypocrisy of the church and government in their treatment of people dying of AIDS. lately she's been writing musical pieces about the genocide of her greek ancestors in the 19th/early 20th century (i could be a little off the mark on that), and she composed pretty much a whole album in greek.

oh, and she lent her vocal talents to the sound effects in "the ring 2".

Anxiety said:

Learned something new

-1 Tiny Tim
-2. Will Shatner
-3. William Hung
-4 Amanda Shelby

weepingwall said:

Meredith Monk

GangstaFam said:

one day i'm taking you to a diamanda show and you'll thank me for it.

i mean, i let her kiss me on the mouth once and i survived. how scary could she be?

Anxiety said:

But look! She killed you!

This dude...


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Ya know, nobody sounds like Joey Ramone. His fucked up vowels. His clipped words. His tuneless tunefulness. I love his voice.

GangstaFam said:

yes, but do you know how much my remains have been going for on eBay???

Anxiety said:

Got a listing? I'd bid. But I wanna live!

GangstaFam said:

ronnie spector as a boy. i never think of him as a punk singer - i always think of him as a bubblegum girl group fan who was too much of a natural freak to fit in the mold, and wound up being a forefather of something even better. i do love his voice - the harder it is to understand the words, the better.

GangstaFam said:

i wanna live my li-hi-hife
i wanna li-hivv
i wanna live my li-hi-hife


sorry...still in joey mode.

Anxiety said:

Absolutely! Good insight. I love Ronnie. And so did Joey. I see a definite bond there. Too bad Ronnie didn't go that direction and keep her career going cuz I'm so in love with her.

Ian and I love his voice so much that sometimes we'll sing entire albums like him. You should've heard us screaming out all of the "Dirty Mind" album in the mountains of Utah. We were crying by the end. "UUUGGGGHHH SISTA! AH UHHNLEE WANNA BUH YUH FRENNN!!!"

Both of these beautiful freaks...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jeff buckley!!
Such a beatiful voice he had

1.Jeff Buckley
2.Robert Plant
3.Stevie Wonder
4.Tom Waits
5.Michael Jackson

smellmyfunk said:

Forgot about him. Good one.

people never give him credit, but lux interior of the cramps has an amazing voice - he's like a walking halloween sound effects record.