Beautiful Male/Female singing voices

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Female:
Simone Simons (Epica)
Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil)
Tarja Turunen (Ex Nightwish)
Sharon Den Adel (Within Temptation)
Sara Jezebel Deva (Ex Cradle of Filth)


Male:
Peter Steele (Type O Negative - RIP)
Roy Khan (ex Kamelot)
Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth)
Ronnie James Dio (RIP)
Messiah Marcolin (ex Candlemass)
Seal

Antony Hegarty.

Here's a small sample of voices I like:
Justin Hayward (Moody Blues)
Gerry Rafferty (RIP)
Josh Groban
Phil Oakey
Annie Lennox
Julie London (RIP)

I think Bono of U2 and the woman who sings with Roxette.

the lady with the extraordinarily musical high soprano who sang in elvis' backup concert choir. her name escapes me right now.

Female: Kimbra Johnson who was already mentioned by cmoonbeam1, Florence Welch, Kate Bush, Emeli Sande and Norah Jones. I don't listen to male singers, so I have no idea about their voices.

I'm a big fan of David Draiman from Disturbed... If you'll just listen for a moment, you'll think he's just another heavy metal screamer. If you listen to one of his ballads, you'll realize there's a very beautiful voice behind all that screaming. And if you listen to more of his work, I think you'll agree that nobody moves back and forth between the two styles, and excells at both, the way he does.

(I also will just list one because I don't know enough female singers to judge.)

It's so great to encounter another Maddy Prior fan!! !

Men:
Placido Domingo (listen to the aria "O Dieu te Quelle Ivresses" (SP?) from Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes )
Michael Stipe (R.E.M.)

Ladies:
Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span)
Dame Joan Sutherland
The lady who sings on my Alegria album (Cirque du Soleil). Sorry, I can't think of her name and my CDs have gone missing.

it's an interesting question for me because i think there is a difference between good singing & beautiful sounding voices.
for instance i love the sound of Petula Clark or Natalie Merchant, even though neither one is a great singer. (among male singers i like the sound of Peter Murphy & Dean Martin.) Celine Dion is technically impressive, but i'm not the least bit interested in listening to her singing. her voice has no individuality.
also, there are good singers who almost never pick a good song (Crystal Gayle), so it seems to me that choosing songs is a completely separate talent.
sometimes i think i am attracted by the personality that is projected, as much as the actual sound (Nina Simone, Patti Smith).
then there is something mysterious that a singer creates, so mysterious that i can't even identify it (Edith Piaf)--& this is best of all.

jackie evancho

Male
Jimmi Hendrix
Robert Smith

Female
Bjork
Ilaria Graziano


Could probably think up more, but I'm half awake.

Freddy Mercury
Rob Halford
Dolly Parton
Celine Dione

Male:
Andrea Bocelli
Michael Buble
Frank Sinatra
Eric Clapton
Simon & Garfunkel
Chris Daughtry
Lifehouse
One Republic
The Script
Sick Puppies
Seal
Steve Tyler

Female:
Cristina Scabbia
Amy-Lee Hartzler
Sarah Brightman
Sharon den Adel
Lacey Sturm
Jessica Sanchez
Elise Estrada
Jessica Simpson
Christina Aguilera
Enya
Plumb
Alicia Keys
Stevie Nicks
Inna
Leann Rimes
Amy Winehouse
Norah Jones
Kate Bush
Mandy Moore

Some oldies: Jackson Browne for "most beautiful," but Roger Daltrey (the Who) for best male vocalist overall - such a great rock vocalist. His "Rocks in the Head" CD is a master class in rock vocals.

Female, maybe Amy Grant (for years I thought she was just "too wholesome" for me, but when she started doing secular albums (Heart In Motion) I got into her stuff)... Joni Mitchell is maybe my fave female vocalist overall, but Amy Grant is probably a better pick for "most beautiful voice."

One other, and I only know her from one CD, but Dame Janet Baker does the soprano part on a recording of Respighi's "Laud to the Nativity" - this is a very difficult piece to sing, and she just absolutely nails all the notes, voice sounds good high and low... Collins Digital 13492... not easy to find, but one of my treasures.

Listen to this. Robert Downey jr.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWa2jXqopVY&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]

Florence Welch of Florence+The Machine: Really powerful, entrancing voice.

Brandon Boyd from Incubus is an amazing male singer.