Favorite voices... go!

[Sven]

If you name a singer of a band, please list that band as well.

Andy Partridge (XTC)
Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)
Morten Harket (a-ha)
Kasim Sultan
Brian Johnson (AC/DC)
Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates)
Bjork
David Bowie

[dreamdead]

The obvious choices, not repeating yours (aka Bjork)
Tom Waits
Marvin Gaye
Leonard Cohen

Others:
Chris Cornell (Badmotorfinger era Soundgarden)
Kristy Thirsk (The Rose Chronicles)
Peter Steele (Type o Negative)
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
Ihsahn (Emperor)
Steve Perry (Journey)
Joanna Newsom

[Milky Joe]

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[Yum-Yum]

Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten)
Nivek Ogre (Skinny Puppy)
Diamanda Galás
Dale Bozzio (Missing Persons)
Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins)
Donna Summmer
Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (D.A.F.)
Bryan Ferry
Kristin Hersh
Michael Gira (SWANS)
Russell Mael (Sparks)
Claudia Brücken (Propaganda)
Klaus Nomi

[rocus]

Eric Burdon of the Animals. Everyone knows House of the Rising Sun, but check him out on Tobacco Road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Sfh8LFMaw).

I'll also go with:
Willie Nelson
Steve Perry
Paul Simon
Aretha Franklin
Glenn Campbell
Ray Charles
Waylon Jennings
B.B. King
George Jones

[berlin wallflower]

Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros)
Nick Drake
Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead)
Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
Stuart Murdoch (Belle and Sebastian)
Tom Waits
Scott Walker
Chris Whitley
Thom Yorke (Radiohead)

[Acapelli]

Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian)
Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins)
Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening)
Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)
Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)
Stephen Merrit (Magnetic Fields)
Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
Neko Case
Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
David Bowie
Joanna Newsom
Aaliyah
Vashti Bunyan

[Russ]

Mama Cass Elliot
Astrud Gilberto
Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy, Art Bears)
Alison Krauss
Roy Orbison
Gram Parsons
Neil Young
Alan Wilson (Canned Heat)
Robert Wyatt

[Kurosawa Fan]

Regina Spektor
Bob Dylan
Nick Drake
Erykah Badu
Billie Holiday (I can't believe she hasn't been mentioned)
Frank Sinatra
Colm Wilkinson
Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney)
Fiona Apple
Steve Perry

[Spinal]

Freddie Mercury, you bastards.

[ledfloyd]

ella, nina simone (how am i the first one with these two?) billy holiday, bob dylan, cat power, tom waits, louis armstrong, jonny lang is a guilty pleasure of mine, neil young, alison kraus, levon helm (the band), rick danko (the band), bjork, shannon hoon (blind melon), stephen malkmus, dino, craig finn (the hold steady), justin timberlake, jim james (my morning jacket), david byrne (talking heads), jeff tweedy (wilco)

that's just off teh top of my head.

[Milky Joe]

oh and Jeff Buckley

[Horbgorbler]

Wimmens:

Shirley Collins
Dagmar Krause (Henry Cow, Die City Preachers, I.D. Company, News from Babel)
Yma Sumac
Ella Fitzgerald
Helen Kane
Nina Simone
Claudia Gonson (the Magnetic Fields)
Betty Carter
Jewlia Eisenberg and the other Charming Hostess gurls
Nara Leão
Allison Statton (Young Marble Giants)

Guyz:

Johnny Hartman
Blind Willie Johnson
James Carr
Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Lee Dorsey
Fats Waller
Klaus Blasquiz (Magma)
Jorge Ben
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Billy Eckstine


Toasters, MCs and talk-y types (Tibet, Cutler) excluded, mainly for space reasons.

[Boner M]

Tim Buckley, mainly for when he's in acrobatic mode.

[Lasse]

Kasper Eistrup (Kashmir):
Rocket Brothers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9qeL0usEE),
The Cynic (feat. David Bowie) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YcH41Hi50g)

Jesper Binzer (D-A-D):
Everything Glows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yElZw8SOkrg),
Cloudy Hours (Live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFkHeC1xShU),
Reconstrucdead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhuNIW2DU88)

Jonas Bjerre (Mew):
Snow Brigade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhSwTEdQWn4),
Apocalypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXs2V8pgMz8),
156 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFjKALF454g)

[bac0n]

Most of these are coming from my Voice As Instrument thread from a few months back...

Frank Sinatra
Nina Simone
Pearl Bailey
Ella Fitzgerald
Annie Lennox
Richard Ashcroft (The Verve)
Fran Healy (Travis)
Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys)
Rakim (Eric B & Rakim)
Iarla O'Lionard (The Afrocelts)
Jimmy Rushing (Count Basie's Orchestra)
Neko Case
Dianne Reeves

[origami_mustache]

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