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To wonder whose singing voice you’d most like to have?

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SisterMaryImmaculate · 20/10/2025 19:02

If you could wake up tomorrow with a specific singer’s voice, whose would you choose and why?

Inspired by another thread, mine would be Karen Carpenter.

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Lilifer · 21/10/2025 13:21

Sinead o Connor

Fionasapples · 21/10/2025 12:34

Judith Durham of The Seekers.
If I woke up male, I'd like Matt Munro's voice.

Giggorata · 21/10/2025 12:28

Lisa Gerrard for me, too.

If male, Freddie Mercury.

DierdreDaphne · 21/10/2025 12:22

NotMyRealAccount · 21/10/2025 12:11

We had I'll Never Find Another You as the exit music at my mother's funeral, just in case anyone wasn't crying already.

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Oh my GOD 😭😭😭😭😭. I'm welling up myself now....

DierdreDaphne · 21/10/2025 12:22

Another2Cats · 20/10/2025 20:32

Just to add to my previous list, and going in a totally different direction, I would also add Nina Simone. Anything she sang was great but this is a really good example:

(Although her playing live is better still)

There is an incredible warm, human presence in Nina's voice that even through my tinny phone speaker gives me a sense of a person right next to me here in the room. I can almost feel her body heat and sense her breath, and her warm, intense spirit. Extraordinary 😍😍

Greenfinch7 · 21/10/2025 12:15

Kathleen Ferrier

NotMyRealAccount · 21/10/2025 12:11

ApplesinmyPocket · 20/10/2025 20:48

Judith would definitely be my pick.

'The Carnival is Over' probably shows off her voice better, or 'I am Australian', but I specially like the one I linked to :)

I've seen an interview with her bandmates where they said (a little bit irritated with her!) that she never sang a wrong note, and picked them up on all of theirs even if only a fraction out 😉

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We had I'll Never Find Another You as the exit music at my mother's funeral, just in case anyone wasn't crying already.

DierdreDaphne · 21/10/2025 12:08

Vaguelyclassical · 20/10/2025 23:22

Maddy Prior
(You're all too young to have heard of her, I suspect!)

Haha ues she had a beautiful voice. Turned out her politics were less lovely, unfortunately

Did love her performances.with June Tabor, too

HeathenPlayingHouse · 21/10/2025 12:01

Selena Quintanilla, or maybe Lorna Luft. If I were a man, probably Marc Broussard or Foy Vance.

FilthyforFirth · 21/10/2025 11:46

Just scrolled back through can't believe no one else said Jennifer Hudson! Aretha is a close second

FilthyforFirth · 21/10/2025 11:41

J Hud! Her voice is so effortless, love it!

Trumpeuncretino · 21/10/2025 11:38

Amy Winehouse

Yellowlobelia · 21/10/2025 11:35

Sandy Denny or June Tabor

Jasmin71 · 21/10/2025 11:29

Annie Lennox
Alison Moyet
Morten Harket

Auburngal · 21/10/2025 10:50

I once had a dream of me singing in both Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie doing a Fleetwood Mac tribute band.

I cannot be doing with screaming or high pitch voices. I love Minnie Riperton but the high pitch bit in Loving You is too much.

nam3c4ang3 · 21/10/2025 10:44

Whitney or Celine … maybe even Mariah. If guy - Axl Rose.

Yellowe · 21/10/2025 10:41

squashyhat · 21/10/2025 10:32

Does anyone remember All About Eve? Julianne Regan was pretty good.

YOU ARE AN OCEAN WAVE, MY LOVE
CRASHING AT THE BOW
I AM A GALLEY SLAVE, MY LOVE

Thank you for that earworm, @squashyhat. (She did have a lovely voice, though one of my main memories of them was when something went wrong on TOTP and the backing track played without the band hearing it…)

BitOutOfPractice · 21/10/2025 10:33

Nat King Cole.

waterproofed · 21/10/2025 09:52

Elvis

HelenaWaiting · 21/10/2025 07:15

Fiona Apple. Along with her face and her attitude. I fucking love her!

MaidOfSteel · 21/10/2025 07:10

Ann Wilson. Her voice is phenomenal!

AnchorWHAT · 21/10/2025 07:09

Was going to say whitney but to be honest anyone who can sing well! I have a secret fantasy of getting up at a karaoke and just blowing people away by my amazing singing 😆 never gonna happen.

Fandango52 · 21/10/2025 00:37

CoffeeCantata · 20/10/2025 19:35

Some great suggestions here but the most stunning voice I’ve heard recently was the actress who played Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown. Sorry I can’t name her…will google.

Mónica Barbaro played JB and did a phenomenal job! My picks would be either Joan Baez or Julie Andrew’s, but I love loads of
the other choices that people have made here.

Twofurrypurries · 21/10/2025 00:09

Kelly Clarkson. She sounds fabulous singing pretty much anything.

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