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

213 replies

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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JurassicPark4Eva · 20/10/2025 20:03

Christina Aguilera. Oh to be able to do that yodelling and have her range.

I'm a plain old Alto 😂

PractisingMyTelekenipsis · 20/10/2025 20:03

P!nk

Ihateboris · 20/10/2025 20:03

Shakira or Pink

OdeToTheNorthWestWind · 20/10/2025 20:06

Renee Fleming

Avonandice · 20/10/2025 20:07

Monseratt Caballe

defrazzled · 20/10/2025 20:08

Sade. Can I look like her too?
Please?

UnNiddeRides · 20/10/2025 20:08

Tracey Thorn. Anyone but Amy Winehouse.

Another2Cats · 20/10/2025 20:08

For me it would be either Alison Moyet or Susanna Hoffs. Obviously showing my age here.

This is Alison Moyet (as one half of Yazoo) singing "Only You" in 1982.

I also remember seeing The Bangles playing at ULU in 1986 (I was studying at UCL at the time).

Susanna Hoffs had an incredible voice back then (and still does). This is the Top of the Pops version from the same year:

But I would also loved to have had the courage to be a singer like Annabella Lwin (who is two years younger than me), especially with the undercut. This is her performing live at Sefton Park, Liverpool in 1982 with Bow Wow Wow.

Although most people may know the group more through this performance on Top of the Pops

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BlessedAreThePureOfHeart · 20/10/2025 20:09

Enya or Sarah Brightman

lljkk · 20/10/2025 20:09

Any, lol, any that can sing on key.
I'm the person everyone begs to STFU if I try to sing anything. Very awful, I'm told, sometimes in quite ridiculing and disgusted reaction ways.

indoorplantqueen · 20/10/2025 20:10

Jewel or Karen carpenter

Welshwabbit · 20/10/2025 20:10

Emmylou Harris. Just unbelievably lovely.

ProfoundlyPeculiarAndWeird · 20/10/2025 20:11

Amy Winehouse for me.

therewasafishinthepercolator · 20/10/2025 20:11

Can't believe I forgot about Dolores O'Riordan. Beautiful and so unique.

shellyleppard · 20/10/2025 20:12

Guy garvey from elbow 😍😍😍

Didimum · 20/10/2025 20:12

Chappell Roan

ComemosZanahorias · 20/10/2025 20:13

Dolores O’Riordan or Annie Lennox

MoveAlongNowDear · 20/10/2025 20:15

Sandy Denny

PocketsAndSedition · 20/10/2025 20:15

Sandy Denny or Kirsty MacColl

Assssofspades · 20/10/2025 20:15

Mel C

TwistedWonder · 20/10/2025 20:17

Ann Nesby or the late Angie Stone

BlessedAreThePureOfHeart · 20/10/2025 20:20

Maria McKee as well please

HRTQueen · 20/10/2025 20:20

Chaka Khan or Norah Jones

I love Cat Powers voice too but often it’s more how she is phrasing the song than her voice

Sneakybat · 20/10/2025 20:21

Cher. Or Jack Black , if I was male. He seems to be a great live performer. He nails it each time he sings.

DialSquare · 20/10/2025 20:23

Devilsmommy · 20/10/2025 19:52

Janis joplin or Billie holiday depending on what I was singing

Janis Joplin for me too.

and Steve Marriott for a male voice.