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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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Yellowlobelia · 21/10/2025 11:35

Sandy Denny or June Tabor

Trumpeuncretino · 21/10/2025 11:38

Amy Winehouse

FilthyforFirth · 21/10/2025 11:41

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

FilthyforFirth · 21/10/2025 11:46

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

HeathenPlayingHouse · 21/10/2025 12:01

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

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

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.

Greenfinch7 · 21/10/2025 12:15

Kathleen Ferrier

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 😍😍

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....

Giggorata · 21/10/2025 12:28

Lisa Gerrard for me, too.

If male, Freddie Mercury.

Fionasapples · 21/10/2025 12:34

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

Lilifer · 21/10/2025 13:21

Sinead o Connor

Eyesopenwideawake · 21/10/2025 13:22

Alison Moyet or Adele.

MardyBra · 21/10/2025 14:04

Ella Fitzgerald or Aretha Franklin

SwedishEdith · 21/10/2025 15:17

Fionasapples · 21/10/2025 12:34

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

Oh, yes to Matt Munro or Perry Como.

Bloodylovecheese · 21/10/2025 19:14

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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I listened to this clip that was posted and thought about having it at my funeral...then I started to cry 😢
Fantastic choice 🥰

EliosBackPack · 21/10/2025 19:15

Etta James for me.

OneFootAfterTheOther · 21/10/2025 19:17

Cynthia Erivo

TwinklyStork · 21/10/2025 19:18

Assssofspades · 20/10/2025 20:15

Mel C

I might pick her too. The way she sang I Don't Know How To Love Him in Jesus Christ Superstar was fantastic.

For a man - George Michael.

EliosBackPack · 21/10/2025 19:25

Should have said, Etta James try her singing “A Sunday kind of love.”

Newname71 · 21/10/2025 19:42

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.

Me and oldest DS went to see Tenacious D last year. It was one of the best concerts I’ve been too (and I’ve been to a few). They were brilliant.

KittyRannaldini · 21/10/2025 19:50

Yellowlobelia · 21/10/2025 11:35

Sandy Denny or June Tabor

June Tabor singing Night Comes In is one of my favourite songs.

Fabvegetablegrower · 21/10/2025 19:52

Alison Moyet

MannequinsArePeopleToo · 22/10/2025 22:09

KD Laing.