Which singers voice do you find to be most distinctive?

[amdhunter]

Conway Twitty.

 

[Imp]

Chris Cornell
Billy Corgan

Also, Art Alexakis (from Everclear, I think thats his name), just because every song they have to go "Yeah (background: Yeah, Yeah!)"

edit: or "Whoa (background: Whoa, Whoa!)"

I love the Smushing Pumpkins... but Billy Corgan's voice grates my ears nowadays. He did a cover of U2's "Stay" and it was just...

 

[rh71]

Jewel

 

[JulesMaximus]

Dolores O'Riordan has a pretty unique voice (lead singer for the Cranberries).

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Psy

 

[pontifex]

Damien Wilson from Threshold

Hansi Kursch from Blind Guardian

 

[Farang]

I'm amazed it took so long for anyone to list him. MUCH more distinctive than most of the other ones that people have been posting.

Agreed, especially the later years.

Then again I think an argument could be made that there are a few different 'versions' of his voice, and a layperson (I mean someone really not familiar with his music at all) might mistake a few select songs compared to one another. A couple of examples might be "Mississippi" to "As I Went Out One Morning"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBV6hH7pGlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGtFu9ah8IA

 

[Baked]

I love Lana Del Rey's voice.

 

[FalseChristian]

Sabastian Bach of Skid Row
Bruce Dickenson of Iron Maiden
And, of course, Ozzy!

 

[William Gaatjes]

The lead singer from the band Rare Bird, Steve Gould.

Rare Bird - Sympathy (TOTP 1970)_HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7chbaB7sl7Y


Thinking of rare birds, quite common but have a rare trait : These birds seem to posses problem solving, perhaps because of the unusual powerful memory. Raven and Crows.

 

[skyking]

Michael McDonald

 

[Mixolydian]

Michael McDonald

His voice makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[skyking]

His voice makes me sick to my stomach.

Very distinctive

 

[sourceninja]

Tom waits and Elvis Costello

 

[mizzou]

Bob Dylan. Distinctive for all the wrong reasons.



And sometimes Tom Petty

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Never really followed a whole lot of singers really.
But reflecting on those I've paid any kind of attention to over the years. I've always kept an ear out for some Portishead.
Still kind of sad I missed when they came to town last year.
http://youtu.be/ohDDxCdm9Oo

Most recently I've taken interest in Anna Wise from Sonnymoon. Some of their stuff brings a feeling of some modern-day Portishead work. Pretty sure I've noticed the influence in their productions.
CunninLynguists featured her on a few songs from their last release - Oneirology. However, I wasn't sold until I heard this acoustic version of Looking Back.
http://youtu.be/Ff5HY06FfJ0
http://youtu.be/EUy0zccI-EI

The in-between is probably Goapele. Featured on some Hieroglyphics stuff. She was amazing on the hooks. I'm not a big fan of her own solo work. But I'll check out her stuff from time to time when in the mood.
http://youtu.be/8ji134Evkbk
http://youtu.be/kRn2DAggPEE