specific voices you love

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"His voice is like water" is a phrase I often use about Jack Johnson, for example. For some reason I find his voice soothing to the point that I can only compare it to a cool drink of water. (Don't listen to that one hit he had. The rest of his songs are nice.)
I love watching Joanna Newsom sing. She's so distinctive!
Does anyone else have a love of voices? Are there any specific ones that you just can't get enough of?

I like the voices of the actor James Mason and the singer Stefan Eicher.

elvis

I like his voice too. The energy he uses makes me energetic.

The first voices that come to mind are those of Tarja Turunen, and Sharon Den Adel. Both are lyric soprano's, both have a warm sound to there voices.

fave voices-

*lee marvin- a whiskey and tobacco-infused basso growl, with attitude. he sang "wandrin' star" in "paint your wagon."
*ross mitchell- on the "Coast to Coast" radio program, his basso profundo rumble introduces the nightly show in an inimitably sepulchral style.
*james earl jones- his sonorous bass voice is authoritative yet quirky. the voice of doom, darth vader.
*thurl ravenscroft- a versatile bass with a passable singing voice, the voice of disney as well as of god's right-hand man.
*j.d. sumner, one of a handful of contrabass human voices, who can sing down low all the way down to C0 [32 cycles per second], he is in the guinness book of world records for having sung the lowest note in a pop song, elvis presley's "way down" [aptly named!]. for many years he sang bass for elvis. a marvelously deep, treacly voice he had. he will be missed. the voice of god himself.
*ted cassidy, "lurch" on the adams family tv program. a former tv newscaster/reporter/disc jockey/station announcer, your standard professional announcer's basso, but with a special color.
*marlo thomas- a contralto female voice, distinctively baritone in quality but still feminine in a grand-maternal way- rich as maple syrup, and kindly.
*barbara budd, longtime contralto CBC radio personality, a feminine voice but deeper than many men's voices, certainly distinctive upon first listening. she has retired from the CBC radio program "as it happens," which she hosted for many years.
*frances farmer - a woefully underutilized and temperamental actress, with a distinctive contralto voice with a distant quality rather like a tenor horn, truly multitalented.
audrey hepburn- a warm alto, very easy on the ears, very kind and reassuring lullabye-like manner of speaking.

there are others but i can't bring them into mind at the moment. you can tell i am partial to lower-pitched voices.

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Bob Dylan

Gerry Rafferty - pure magic

Phil Oakey - great diction

Annie Lennox - again, great diction, sings just like she speaks

Art Garfunkel!

oh, my heavens, yes. almost forgot about him.

Anthony Hopkins

James Earl Jones (How could anyone forget Darth Vader)

Kathleen Turner

^Them, and Angie Harmon. Love women with kinda deep gravelly voices. Adele. Emily Saliers, and since she's gotten older, Amy Ray. There's a lot, men and women. I must be into voices.

neil gaiman
patrick stewart

as for musicians ... i have to think about it.
leonard cohen is great.. mhh..

Christopher Smith as Molag Bal in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. So f*****g badass.

*Amy Lee from Evanescence

* the late author Linda Goodman, as she reads excerpts from one of her books

* Rose from Two And A Half Men

* Enya

*Sixpence None The Richer, " There She Goes"