Most amazing voice you've ever heard?

Longueuil

Maybe not the most amazing voice ever but an unique one : Betty Bonifassi. She can go in different style so easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgd6fFNr6ak
(bad video but the music is good)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PklrKQ0Ys-A

https://youtu.be/moTQ9mplPnc
(start at 0.33)

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Same with Benjamin Clementine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68KJWe_Tfk

pickupyourwill

JH6056 said:

pickupyourwill said:

JH6056 said:

As usual with good threads, I had certain people in mind when I read the title, then read through and added a whole other long list to my original list! Interesting also that this list doesn't completely correspond with my top favorite artists ever... I'd never have the Clash or Rage Against the Machine on my best vocalist list, but they're definitely on my favorite bands ever list.

But if I'm really limiting it to the 10 or so most "WOW" voices I can think of off the bat, it would be these:

Jeff Buckley
Billie Holiday
Cassandra Wilson (check out album Blue Light Til Dawn)
Mahalia Jackson (yes, astounding voice!)
Sam Cooke
Thom Yorke
Glen Hansard
Michael Stipe
Eddie Vedder
And even though I almost never see anyone talk about this guy here, his voice is astounding: Hozier - check out this acoustic video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH9mRs3sW7A

I was just telling a friend about Hozier tonight~~swoon~~ lol, jk

He IS amazing!! I just heard From Eden for the first time a couple weeks ago~~dude's got skills and SOUL...hard to believe he's only 26!! I know he's Irish, but its the way he forms his words when he sings that is so unique....and his lyrics kick ass! Only other ones I know of his are Someone New and Take Me to Church--great songs.

Your top 10 list is amazing, JH6056. There's 2 I've never heard of--will have to check them out.

Cool, which 2 had you not heard of?

Honey, don't even get me started on Hozier! I can gush about him waaaaay too long... inappropriately long! If you can find either his Bonnaroo 2015 set or Glastonbury, you'll get a good idea of what else he's capable of.

This here though, it's my favorite song of his if I had to pick one (Arsonists Lullabye)... slow start, but powerful and lyrics amazing, like all his lyrics. Literally, they're all either good, great, or mind-fucking-blown great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5e3D39Yn4I

Holy hell!--Great song and passionate performance. Hozier is now on my long list of ones to see live. I did catch him live actually when he was on SNL--already knew Take Me to Church at that point--thanks to radio kill (and my husband was obsessed with that song for awhile) I wasn't familiar with the other, Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene--will have to go back and look at that one. He can slither from Eden to sit outside my door any day

The 2 I don't know are Cassandra Wilson and Mahalia Jackson--will definitely check em out.

JH6056

pickupyourwill said:

JH6056 said:

pickupyourwill said:

JH6056 said:

As usual with good threads, I had certain people in mind when I read the title, then read through and added a whole other long list to my original list! Interesting also that this list doesn't completely correspond with my top favorite artists ever... I'd never have the Clash or Rage Against the Machine on my best vocalist list, but they're definitely on my favorite bands ever list.

But if I'm really limiting it to the 10 or so most "WOW" voices I can think of off the bat, it would be these:

Jeff Buckley
Billie Holiday
Cassandra Wilson (check out album Blue Light Til Dawn)
Mahalia Jackson (yes, astounding voice!)
Sam Cooke
Thom Yorke
Glen Hansard
Michael Stipe
Eddie Vedder
And even though I almost never see anyone talk about this guy here, his voice is astounding: Hozier - check out this acoustic video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH9mRs3sW7A

I was just telling a friend about Hozier tonight~~swoon~~ lol, jk

He IS amazing!! I just heard From Eden for the first time a couple weeks ago~~dude's got skills and SOUL...hard to believe he's only 26!! I know he's Irish, but its the way he forms his words when he sings that is so unique....and his lyrics kick ass! Only other ones I know of his are Someone New and Take Me to Church--great songs.

Your top 10 list is amazing, JH6056. There's 2 I've never heard of--will have to check them out.

Cool, which 2 had you not heard of?

Honey, don't even get me started on Hozier! I can gush about him waaaaay too long... inappropriately long! If you can find either his Bonnaroo 2015 set or Glastonbury, you'll get a good idea of what else he's capable of.

This here though, it's my favorite song of his if I had to pick one (Arsonists Lullabye)... slow start, but powerful and lyrics amazing, like all his lyrics. Literally, they're all either good, great, or mind-fucking-blown great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5e3D39Yn4I

Holy hell!--Great song and passionate performance. Hozier is now on my long list of ones to see live. I did catch him live actually when he was on SNL--already knew Take Me to Church at that point--thanks to radio kill (and my husband was obsessed with that song for awhile) I wasn't familiar with the other, Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene--will have to go back and look at that one. He can slither from Eden to sit outside my door any day

The 2 I don't know are Cassandra Wilson and Mahalia Jackson--will definitely check em out.

Cassandra Wilson is amazing, nouveau jazz/soul singer, and Blue Light 'Til Dawn (with 2 Robert Johnson covers on it) is my fave album of hers. Her version of Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey is amazing.

Mahalia Jackson is gospel, and really old school gospel. Here's one of my favorite songs by her, she's a historic figure from back when music was simpler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6z4eyjr6so

pickupyourwill

JH6056 said:

pickupyourwill said:

JH6056 said:

pickupyourwill said:

JH6056 said:

As usual with good threads, I had certain people in mind when I read the title, then read through and added a whole other long list to my original list! Interesting also that this list doesn't completely correspond with my top favorite artists ever... I'd never have the Clash or Rage Against the Machine on my best vocalist list, but they're definitely on my favorite bands ever list.

But if I'm really limiting it to the 10 or so most "WOW" voices I can think of off the bat, it would be these:

Jeff Buckley
Billie Holiday
Cassandra Wilson (check out album Blue Light Til Dawn)
Mahalia Jackson (yes, astounding voice!)
Sam Cooke
Thom Yorke
Glen Hansard
Michael Stipe
Eddie Vedder
And even though I almost never see anyone talk about this guy here, his voice is astounding: Hozier - check out this acoustic video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH9mRs3sW7A

I was just telling a friend about Hozier tonight~~swoon~~ lol, jk

He IS amazing!! I just heard From Eden for the first time a couple weeks ago~~dude's got skills and SOUL...hard to believe he's only 26!! I know he's Irish, but its the way he forms his words when he sings that is so unique....and his lyrics kick ass! Only other ones I know of his are Someone New and Take Me to Church--great songs.

Your top 10 list is amazing, JH6056. There's 2 I've never heard of--will have to check them out.

Cool, which 2 had you not heard of?

Honey, don't even get me started on Hozier! I can gush about him waaaaay too long... inappropriately long! If you can find either his Bonnaroo 2015 set or Glastonbury, you'll get a good idea of what else he's capable of.

This here though, it's my favorite song of his if I had to pick one (Arsonists Lullabye)... slow start, but powerful and lyrics amazing, like all his lyrics. Literally, they're all either good, great, or mind-fucking-blown great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5e3D39Yn4I

Holy hell!--Great song and passionate performance. Hozier is now on my long list of ones to see live. I did catch him live actually when he was on SNL--already knew Take Me to Church at that point--thanks to radio kill (and my husband was obsessed with that song for awhile) I wasn't familiar with the other, Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene--will have to go back and look at that one. He can slither from Eden to sit outside my door any day

The 2 I don't know are Cassandra Wilson and Mahalia Jackson--will definitely check em out.

Cassandra Wilson is amazing, nouveau jazz/soul singer, and Blue Light 'Til Dawn (with 2 Robert Johnson covers on it) is my fave album of hers. Her version of Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey is amazing.

Mahalia Jackson is gospel, and really old school gospel. Here's one of my favorite songs by her, she's a historic figure from back when music was simpler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6z4eyjr6so

I just did a free download on my phone for Mahalia Jackson~~I'm On My Way~~great song! I'll check out Cassandra Wilson here soon too

Van Morrison--there's another good voice! Is he in this thread yet? He should be.

FrankY59

curmudgeoness said:

Ella Fitzgerald. This is one of my favorite songs, and her voice -- wow. Her vocals begin at 2:27, pure magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_0I-P7Bbg

+1

TA243471

I'm with Dan Fogelberg and Jim Croce

brianlux

Lots of very cool answers here.

I can never do a "best" or "favorite" answer, sorry! "Amazing" is subjective to one's ears of course. For whatever reason, several of my favorites are voices of singers who are generally (sometimes even at best) not regarded as good singers:

J Mascis (my number one pick)

Runners up (I can never do a "best" or "favorite" answer, sorry!)
Jimi Hendrix (love his voice, he hated it)
Neil Young (of course!)
Paul Westerberg
Joey Ramone
Colin Newman (of Wire)
Lou Reed
Bob Dylan
Willie Nelson

And some who are generally well recognized as good to great singers:
Eddie Vedder
Michael Stipe
Jim Morrison
Sandy Denny
Natalie Merchant

All of the above amaze me.

Thoughts_Arrive

Kurt Cobain

MedozK

Elvis Presley, one of the greatest vocalist in history.

tempo_n_groove

TA243471 said:

I'm with Dan Fogelberg and Jim Croce

I forgot about Croce! Nice.

PJ_Soul

For me, KD Lang's "Hallelujah" is the most beautiful song ever sung by anyone, no shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q7TRVOM9KQ

hedonist

PJ_Soul said:

For me, KD Lang's "Hallelujah" is the most beautiful song ever sung by anyone, no shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q7TRVOM9KQ

This is one of my all-time favorites (and that says a lot).

tempo_n_groove

I need to add Chris Isaac to my list. He has always held my attention. Somebody's Crying is where it all started for me.

Tristelune

Jeff Buckley was so impressive, that being said I love Glen Hansard.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FaRhtO9qWQ0

hedonist

Robin fucking Zander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj0bqypdJI8

Of The Aggie

Haven't seen her mentioned ...Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine.

mfc2006

Mark Lanegan

Saw him last night in Portland & was blown away. Wow.

mr bungle

Mike Patton
Marvin Gaye

g under p

I've scoured through this thread and I've not seen his name mentioned as yet. He may not have an amazing voice but to me he certainly has one of the most unique ones in rock music.......

Geddy Lee

http://youtu.be/9l5q7uH_0xk

Peace

tempo_n_groove

mr bungle said:

Mike Patton
Marvin Gaye

Obviously you are biased by looking at your screen name, lol.

I have heard nothing but good things about Patton. I have lost track of him over the years but I always heard his name.

Can someone introduce me to some newer Patton material please!