Dietrich Fischer Dieskau :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Rry-ahcHM
The greateast male voices for me are not tenor voices but bass voices, especially basso profundo or oktavists because there is a superpower in these voices , something akin to the sacred divine in a commanding way ...Oktavists voices are supernatural and counter tenor voices too but to a lesser degree they are unnatural and angelic in a feminine way ... My male voice supremum is Diectrich Fisher Dieskau who mastered singing at a level only the supreme female voices can do and staying a bass , a baritone ......
Oktavists :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWueUXhYzg
The most versatile and moving female voice able to sing anything in any genre, is Marian Anderson :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7zjNiz2ZI
And now if you want to know how and where Billie Holiday take the inner power to put "strange fruit" expressive version listen to "crucifixion" by Anderson :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFEOhZ8Jb4
Then Anderson being a counter alto , it is not the high frequencies mastery that make female voice supreme but something akin to some timbre tonal quality which is yin not yang to be short ...
The voice of our mother and the voice of God... You cannot beat these two even with an angel voice ...😊
I think this is true ...
The female vocal chords are able to produce a tonal quality, for the most part, that cannot be replicated by the male vocal chords, and it is generally more pleasing to hear. Opera would be a good example. The male voice is rough on the ear, whereas the female voice is sublime. IMHO
And this is a fundamental determinative fact for all of us...
Our mother’s voice was the first sound we heard. We could hear it in the womb.
