Greatest Vocalists

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Vote for Gladys Knight 1) Gladys Knight

The First Lady Of Soul


Vote for Shirley Bassey 2) Shirley Bassey

There are some controvercial artists in the top 10, but Shirley Bassey isn’t one of them. Bassey’s vocal abilities are extraordinarily exceptional, and they still are after more than a half of a century! Everything else gets down to ones personal taste in music.

The Greatest POP Vocalist of All Time!

Shirley Bassey is first on this list when it comes to Vocal Ability. All those ranked higher are entertainers who are very popular for various reasons, and many reasons are given, but technical vocal ability is not one of them.


Vote for Michael Jackson 3) Michael Jackson

No one is like MJ! The most talanted!

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the greatest vocals , he makes this great unique singing voice of his looks effortless , so you just enjoy listening to his words.

he is the greatest singer with great golden vocals. not just a performer he knows how to sing


Vote for Vitas 4) Vitas

Vitas has the most incredible voice EVER. He can sing anything from folk to rock, pop, ballads and opera. And excels in all! His range and clarity are unbelievable.

The spectacular Russian singer!

Absolutely the best. Always.


Vote for Freddie Mercury 5) Freddie Mercury

Trully the king of all vocalists. RIP Freddie.

by far the greatest vocalist of all time

Vocal range, power and adaptability. He sang sweet lifting ballads and energized rock n roll. No one with, the possible exception of Elvis, has ever come close.


Vote for K.D. Lang 6) K.D. Lang


Vote for K. S. Chithra 7) K. S. Chithra


Vote for Johnny Mathis 8) Johnny Mathis


Vote for Edith Piaf 9) Edith Piaf

I like the heavy metal but this lady is the greatest vocalist of all times


Vote for Elvis Presley 10) Elvis Presley

Tom Jones is a great power vocalist, Tony Bennett has range and smoothness as does Engelbert Humperdinck BUT Elvis possesses something special in his voice, a purity, honesty and it’s as if God sings through him and that’s why he was called The King.

He sells more now than then.


Vote for Karen Carpenter 11) Karen Carpenter

There never has been a sweeter voice and may never be another even close.

the most beautiful, velvety, soothing voice ever


Vote for Tom Jones 12) Tom Jones


Vote for Ella Fitzgerald 13) Ella Fitzgerald


Vote for Diamanda Galas 14) Diamanda Galas


Vote for Tim Buckley 15) Tim Buckley


Vote for Captain Beefheart 16) Captain Beefheart


Vote for Celine Dion 17) Celine Dion

I have seen many of the performers on this list and no one comes close to Celine Dion’s Talent!


Vote for Paul McCartney 18) Paul McCartney


He did a lot of great diverse music including a lot of great rockers even some hard rock in the early-mid 1970’s before and during early Wings which I think is his best post Beatles music period 1970-1975(the great 1975 Wings rock album Venus and Mars I think is last true great album)and he wrote and
played a lot of great obscure album tracks and B-sides many which were better than the well known hits,although I like the hits too.


Beware My Love is a great less known heavy Paul rocker and it’s the best song on the 1976 Wings At The Speed Of Sound album,Wings performed a pretty good rocking version on the very good live rock Wings album,Wings Over America.


And John also wrote in addition to
a lot of great rockers,some very sentimental songs even a few mushy did you ever hear his song for Yoko on his Mind Games album?As The All Music Guide rightfully says and points out,that the critical party line often champions Lennon as the angry realist rocker and McCartney as the melodic balladeer but they say this is a fallacy:each of them was capable in roughly equal measures of ballsy all-out rock and sweet romanticism.


There are many Beatles song examples of this too,Paul even wrote some of their earliest very good rockers,I Saw Her Standing There in 1963 which many people have said is a very good rocker,I’m Down which the all music guide calls a peerless and one of the most frantic rockers in their entire catalog,and they said The Beatles proved that they could rock really really hard with this song,John’s I Feel Fine and Paul’s late 1964 blues rocker,She’s A Woman which they said was one of the hardest rocking early Beatles orginals and they said McCartney to often unfairly pegged as a sweet balladeer demonstrates that he was also one of the best white rock hard singers of all time with his shrill yet rich even ballsy vocal.


He also wrote a lot of very good rock songs in their later career as did John but he also wrote quite a few beautiful love songs as well.

lucyinthesky

ye, ye, ye, the wonderful composer with the heart warming voice in singing... one of the era’s best singer vocalist

HOLY CRAP, he is amazing! Why the hell is he at number 41?


Vote for Frank Sinatra 19) Frank Sinatra

the greatest and most suave man to ever sing

Just a perfect vocalist. Phrasing, timing, pitch. He is the gold standard.

frank sinatra is the king of music


Vote for Nico 20) Nico


Vote for Jeff Buckley 21) Jeff Buckley


Vote for Donna Summer 22) Donna Summer

she can sing everything!

Greatest voice ever... you can tell her voice apart from the rest even now at 62 years old!


Vote for Connie Francis 23) Connie Francis


Vote for Mark Stewart (The Pop Group) 24) Mark Stewart (The Pop Group)


Vote for Patti Smith 25) Patti Smith


Vote for Nick Cave 26) Nick Cave


Vote for Dinah Washington 27) Dinah Washington


Vote for Engelbert Humperdink 28) Engelbert Humperdink


Vote for Tom Waits 29) Tom Waits


Vote for Jim Morrison 30) Jim Morrison

Sorry Tim Buckley - Jim has the edge.


Vote for Luciano Pavaratti 31) Luciano Pavaratti


Vote for Linda Eder 32) Linda Eder


Vote for Barbra Streisand 33) Barbra Streisand

THE GREATEST... shes look like a SONGBIRD... THE LIVING LEGEND...


Vote for Judy Garland 34) Judy Garland


Vote for Roy Orbison 35) Roy Orbison


Vote for Marvin Gaye 36) Marvin Gaye


Vote for Joan Baez 37) Joan Baez


Vote for Nat King Cole 38) Nat King Cole


Vote for Patsy Cline 39) Patsy Cline


Vote for Mahalia Jackson 40) Mahalia Jackson


Vote for Aretha Franklin 41) Aretha Franklin


Vote for Linda Ronstadt 42) Linda Ronstadt


Vote for Patti LaBelle 43) Patti LaBelle


Vote for John Lennon 44) John Lennon

As The All Music Guide says as singers John Lennon and Paul MCCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock. John had such a beautiful unique voice and a strong great singing voice, he and Paul could sing rock songs and love songs great! Just listen to John’s beautiful singing on This Boy especially the middle parts, and If I Fell, I’ll Be Back, etc and his great rock vocal on Twist and Shout which he sang and recorded in only 1 take with a very bad cold and bad sore throat, and his rock vocals on Money and Rock and Roll Music Reveloution, etc etc are also great!


Vote for David Thomas (Pere Ubu) 45) David Thomas (Pere Ubu)


Vote for Glen Campbell 46) Glen Campbell


Vote for Dionne Warwick 47) Dionne Warwick


Vote for Tina Turner 48) Tina Turner


Vote for Ray Charles 49) Ray Charles


Vote for Vikki Carr 50) Vikki Carr


Vote for Nana Mouskouri 51) Nana Mouskouri


Vote for Glenn Hughes 52) Glenn Hughes


Vote for Hayley Westenra 53) Hayley Westenra


Vote for Maria Callas 54) Maria Callas


Vote for Stevie Wonder 55) Stevie Wonder


Vote for Brian Wilson 56) Brian Wilson


Vote for Dusty Springfield 57) Dusty Springfield


Vote for Tony Bennett 58) Tony Bennett


Vote for Judy Collins 59) Judy Collins



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