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Right now...
1. China Forbes - lead singer of Pink Martini
2. Colleen Duffy - lead singer of Devil Doll
3. Randy Crawford
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Out of curiosity: I find that a lot of people are nominating more or less unknown singers. Why?
If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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The phrase "..outside the classical tradition..." leaves quite a bit of wiggle room for niche vocalists maybe.
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Missed that. You're probably right...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? 
No, most of the best music today is by independent artists. While some of the more main stream performers are indeed good vocalists, they spew out the garbage that the industry steers them towards instead of trusting their own creativity.
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Don't think that follows at all. In fact I specifically asked for the best, not the most commercially successful, in the hope that it would raise up some candidates that I had no knowledge of. The record business being the clumsy great machine that it is there is no reason to believe that the cream necessarily rises to the top or gets the backing of the great promotion budgets. Also there are many great singers working in areas such as English folk which have never had the audiences to bring people into widespread recognition. I would put Kate Rusby's "My Young Man" easily into the top ten singer/songwriter recordings of all time, for example, but I doubt that more than a handful of people outside the folk audience are even aware of it's existence (and they heard it from me!)
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You might want to do a little research on how the pop industry works.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You think I should care about that? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Listen, Kiddo, you care about what I Tell you to care about!
Now go and sit quietly in the corner, while I finish my martini and think up things for you to do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I find Mallika Sundaramurthy has a very good voice.
Anneke Van Giersbergen too - especially if she collaborates with The Gathering or Devin Townsend.
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Tarja Turunen
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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OK, so most male pop singers are gay, so they kinda qualify as female, but that's not the point.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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9082365 wrote: Sander's SOTW thread
w0000t! 
I usually don't care much for vocals, so I don't really have favorite singers. The entire package must be right and a beautiful voice can be really unfitting in certain music.
Putting together this top five was pretty challenging, but fun nonetheless
In no particular order:
Kimbra - Two Way Street - LIVE Studio Session[^] (posted by @BillWoodruff some time ago, became my SOTW after that. That lady has a really very good singing voice).
Solefald - Tittentattenteksti[^] (was my SOTW a few weeks back, say what you want, but this lady (Agnete Kjølsrud, also in Djerv and Animal Alpha) sounds like a maniac, which is exactly what makes her, and this song, pretty awesome).
The Devil's Blood - The Anti Kosmik Magick[^] (Farida Lemouchi sounds like she's somehow slightly off tune which is exactly why her voice adds perfectly to this dark psychedelic satan worship).
Idina Menzel - Let It Go[^] (yes, that song from Frozen which is waaaaaay too catchy! No denying that Idina Menzel has a strong voice with a pretty wide range).
Igorrr - Tout Petit Moineau[^] (this song came to me in a SOTW thread (thanks @RUs123!) and also became a SOTW. Laure Le Prunenec goes from beautiful classical singing to screaming and psychopath, awesome!)
Maybe not the best singers in the world (beauty is in the eye, or in this case ear, of the beholder/listener anyway), but pretty unique and awesome nonetheless!
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You mean there has been music produced in the last 20 years!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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And some of that music is very good.
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Jacqui Abbott is my favourite[^]
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I agree, always happy to listen to her singing. I would never have heard of her if it was not for Jules Holland.
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She's been my favourite female singer since she joined The Beautiful South.
I'm off to see her with Paul Heaton next month - for the eighth time in the last two years!
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I'll second that as well. Wonderful voice.
veni bibi saltavi
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I'll give you three
Ella Fitzgerald
Karen Carpenter
Elton John
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I've just been beaten at Monopoly by a bird! Toucan play at that game...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That statement is a bit hard to swallow! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Think you should make a swift exit.
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