Beautiful Male/Female singing voices

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Here are mine

Male
Marc Anthony
Neil Hannon
Jon Secada
Jon Lee from S Club 7
Sami Yusuf

Female
Jo O'Meara from S Club 7
Francoise Atlan
Gloria Estefan

What are your favorite male/female snging voices

Male: Chris Daughtry, The Birds (yes, the Birds), Pavarotti

Female: Pat Banatar, Celine Dione

IMHO, these are some of the best of the best-
female:
frances farmer [RIP]
kiri de kanawa
marilyn horne
goldie hawn [YES! she can sing like a bird!]
julia louis dreyfus [she sang "so nice" on an episode of "seinfeld" and did a bang up job!]
patsy cline [RIP]
gayle mccormick
marilyn mccoo
kate smith
dinah shore
dionne warwick
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male:
jan peerce ["the bluebird of happiness"]
elvis presley
gordon macrae
lenny welch ["since i fell for you"]
tennessee ernie ford
tom jones
bobby darin
gordon lightfoot
roy orbison
agostinho dos santos [he was the singing voice behind lip-syncing actor breno mello in "orpheu negro" singing the song "manha de carnaval"]
bryn terfel [welsh operatic baritone]

there are too many others to list here.

It has to be Elvis Presley and Michelle Branch for me.

male: Perry Farrell, Scott Weiland, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley (had to steal a few from AuntBlabby's excellent list)

female: Diane Reeves, Cheryl Bentyne, Dolores O'Riordan

^^^
thanx, AIME
another golden voice- muriel smith, who was the singing voice of juanita hall ("bloody mary") in "South Pacific."

Male:

Jeff Buckley (RIP)
Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) (RIP)
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave)
Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, No-Man)
Jim Morrison (The Doors) (RIP)

Female:
Adele
Peggy Lee
Jacqui Mcshee (Pentangle)
Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane)
Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span)

Male...Robert Downey jr.( if you don't believe me, go check out" man like me")
Female.....Adele, she's awesome.

Male: Matt Berninger of The National (you don't usually hear a baritone in a rock band), Stan Rogers

Female: Kimbra (New Zealand singer-songwriter whose vocals are featured in Gotye's Somebody that I Used to Know), Brody Dalle (I have unconventional tastes!)

j.d. sumner, one of the very few human contrabasses or basso produndos, was in guiness book of world records for having sung the lowest note in a popular song, namely elvis presley's "way down."
larry hooper [singer on the lawrence welk show, with an exceptionally musical bass voice]
thurl ravenscroft [a marveous singing and speaking voice in the deep bass register, longtime voice of various walt disney park attractions, the "voice of GOD"]

For pure angelic beauty of the sound coming out of his mouth, I have to mention Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (IZ).

Beth Gibbons from Portishead... Her voice is angelic <3

Male:
Jeff Buckley
Maynard James Keenan
Neil Finn
Michael Jackson
Matt Bellamy (is that his name? The guy from Muse)

Female:
Anneke van Giersbergen (lead singer from The Gathering)
Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation)
Sinead O'Connor
Nancy Sinatra
Skin (Skunk Anansie)

In terms of technique I love Freddie Mercury. He covered so many styles, from rock to disco to opera, with an incredible range & stage presence.

paul robeson
domenico modugno
sonny james
richard kiley [yes, the ol' national geographic guy, he could SING! he starred on broadway in "man of la mancha" and sang "the quest (the impossible dream"]
leon redbone [an utterly distinctive "old southern man" voice]
connie francis [she could sing like a bird, in whatever language you please]
gladys knight [her voice is sheer raw bottled emotion]
helen reddy
betty buckley ["cats"]
k d lang [today's patsy cline]
olivia newton-john
laura brannigan [the best of the female belters, next to gayle mccormick]

Let's see:

Male: Basshunter (only when he sings in swedish though)
Till Lindemann of Rammstein

Female: Annie Lennox
Justine Suissa (Her voice in the Oceanlab track "Satellite" is amazing)