Best Ever Singer?

[PennyNotSoWise]

AIBU to be a nosy caah and ask who you think the best singer the world has ever seen is?

Mine is Freddie Mercury. I've just seen the ad for Amazon music (I think that's what it was) where it's just his voice singing Somebody To Love, music drowned out, and Sweet.Baby.Jesus, it gave me goosebumps. If I didn't have alopecia, my hair would be standing on end, I tell you Wow, could that man sing!

I told DP and he said, "meh, he was alright."

Who are your favourites? And any particular song where they're at their best?

Alicia Keyes.

And Lauren Hill! When she sings in sister act 2 - I get goosebumps.

Mick Hucknall was in Simply Red
Freddie of course
Paul Simon andArt Garfunkel singing Bridge Over Troubled Water
Adam Lambert

Oh, I can't believe I forgot to mention Meatloaf. I feel ashamed.

Glad someone else had a secret Andy Williams voice crush
Can’t believe mama cass hasn’t been mentioned before me
If I could sing, never mind sing like mama cass is think I’d died and gone to heaven

Bob Seger - We've got tonight is just an amazing song

Ha just read your title and thought Freddie

Nina Simone is near the top of my list, @Areyoufree, along with Etta James, but I'm afraid they were both trumped by Billie Holliday. I also think Joni Mitchell is hugely underrated (and deeply unfashionable ).

I find picking a favourite male singer much harder. Bowie? Willard White? Ian Curtis? Bowie? So many amazing singers, and so different that I can't really compare them.

Loving this thread. So many great singers I'd never even heard of, so thanks everyone!

Another one for me was the lead singer of The Platters (haven't put a name because I'm not sure if they had a few over the years ??) Particularly Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, that voice makes me absolutely melt, so lovely. I'm off to google their history

Have to look at this Jeff Buckley never heard of him

Dusty Springfield

Judith Durham

Karen Carpenter

Elvis

Definitely Art Garfunkel

Just started warbling only you
Didn’t realise it was the platters

Oh how I’d love a pair of golden tonsils

Just asked dh and he said enya
I rather liked the one from the cores

Come on mama cass lovers... show yoursrlves

Tom Chaplin from Keane sings well live

Have to look at this Jeff Buckley never heard of him

Waaa?

I love folk type singers - Fionn Regan’s voice is beautiful. I also like Ben Howard. Best female singer for me would be Dolores O’Riordan - another talent gone too soon sad

There are some fantastic voices in folk music. The McGarrigle sisters both have great voices and when they sing together they're sublime. I also loved a singer called John Martyn, who started out a pure folkie but got progressively more influenced by blues and jazz as he got older. He has a way of singing that is very intimate, but still powerful. Sadly, he died a couple of years ago.

Yes definitely woodhill . Awesome and effortless voice

Tom Chaplin from Keane sings well live

Yes, I saw him singing live and he has amazing breath control!

Haven't RTFT but has anyone mentioned Jeff Buckley? Hallelujah gives me the feels.

Can’t play him on YouTube penny as we are listening to the excellent robin Pickford at the old white swan yard york
Brilliant
Brilliant guitarist too
And we are sat outside too

Celine Dion
Karen Carpenter

Whitney Houston

Peter Cetera

Josh Groban

So pleased someone else is a Gene Pitney fan.

I'd like to add Dinah Washington, Shirley Bassey, Donna Summer and the soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø. I was also a pavarotti fan.

Tom Paxton had s really rich folksy voice
Any Tom Paxton lovers here

Yes I thought Sarah brightman had s lovely voice

Peter, Paul and Mary - Mary's voice

Steely span woman