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The late, great Eva Cassidy, most beautiful voice by a landslide:


but best singer?

Shirley Manson

Joni Mitchell

Stevie Nicks

Christine McVie

 

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11 hours ago, redtail hawk said:

It really is.  Cheating and adding Norah Jones, Eva Cassidy and Diana Krall to my list.  Eva sadly had a short life but well worth a listen:

 

Agreed, missed this before I posted.

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3 hours ago, Nextmanup said:

This far into the list and no one has mentioned Billie Holiday?  Nina Simone? Etta James?  Marlene Dietrich? 

 

How about Hildegard Knef, who is incredible! Talk about recency bias! 

 

You guys are all swimming in very shallow musical waters.  

 

 

 

Thats it?  Hildegard showed off almost enough range to be in a bad Velvet Undergound cover band.

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It's really impossible to narrow a list like this down to 5. I thought of two others who haven't been mentioned yet in this thread. Carole King and Carly Simon. 

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1 hour ago, Rico said:

Can't forget Wendy O.

 

 

LOL - I was thinking of making a case for her earlier. Wendy O? Aretha? Tough call.

 

On a more serious note , I'll give a shout out to Tanya Donnelly - who I know from her work with Belly.

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27 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

LOL - I was thinking of making a case for her earlier. Wendy O? Aretha? Tough call.

 

On a more serious note , I'll give a shout out to Tanya Donnelly - who I know from her work with Belly.

Meh, all Aretha did was just stand there, no stage presence at all. :D

Posted (edited)

This is obviously very subjective.  I'll go with singers who at various times have made me say wow.

 

In alphabetical order

 

Emmylou Harris

Whitney Houston

Martina McBride (way underrated, watch her God Bless America from the Rose Bowl parade)

Ruth Moody

Linda Ronstadt

 

There are a lot of honorable mentions.  I'll offer one (in hopes that someone will start a male singers thread) Natalie Cole

 

 

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