worse entertainer or performer of all time??

I just found this thread. All I can say is, tough crowd!

Unsound, I recently heard Cyndi Lauper do a remake of Etta James' "At Last", don't recall the album, recent I believe but I was shocked. I would have never guessed it was her in 100 years. Flat Brazilian Singers? Different strokes I suppose but having been exposed and listened to a lot of Brazilian music over the past 25 years there are some good and bad everywhere but I will say some of my very favorite female singers happen to be Brazilian. Of course I might be swayed by the fact that my wife is a singer and Brazilian and I have been there many times and heard many artists perform live. Brazilian and American jazz are different. You might want to hear Gal Costa live, I do suspect she might be on your hit list, she does a lot of Bossa Nova. Stylistically there is a lot to choose from.

Sometimes it is hard to "get" music until you have been exposed to the culture and language. I'll never forget the sounds I first heard when I visited Brazil the first time. It never left me and has only grown. There is a melancoly texture to the sounds and rhythms that is unique in all music and is why so many American musicians love Brazilian music I suppose. Interestingly Brazilians are really in love with American music as well and adapt it so well in their own.

She's a woman Levy03, those creatures that seem to be the main fans of Celine. It isn't her voice that bothers me, she really can sing, it is the over production and sanguine blandness in her style that turns me off. My wife loves her as well. Same thing with Streisand, the perfectionist who thinks she always knows best. The problem with Barbra her best stuff was and still is from more than 40 years ago, everything since is borrrrring, since she took control, IMO.

My vote for worst entertainer are all the mediocrities of the world, that aspire to more but come up short, too many to know,name and count, but we know who we are.:)

Phaelon, I'm not quite sure if you remember but Joey was quite a hoofer. She really wasn't a singer, more an overall entertainer ala Ann Margaret, easy to look at. You are not alone!

I am surprised by some of the responses, particularly
"Yaw-nie witless Houston". One of the greatest voices I've ever had the pleasure of listening to at her best, regardless of the waste of her immense talent. Oh well.

Dayglow I'm refering to the voice, THE TALENT, that voice. I get the part about the music choices although I thought she did make some excellent individual recordings and her debut album was excellent overall. Then of course the acapella performance at that super bowl in the early 90's, who will say that was lacking in anything? If so I challenge that assessment. Her voice could soar like few with real range and power and I for one never considered her one of the "screaming diva sisters". I always expected she would eventually get to that stage where she would mature into the artist that was in her but never realized and in that respect it was a REAL disappointment to witness the evaporation of her career.

THIS is the point Swampwalker, she would be 1st on my list on wasted talent, by a big margin. Coming from a solid family with very musical roots and being born with a very rare gift that was nurtured from childhood. At 21 years old coming out with a successful debut album to highlight that talent and along the way taking a detour at the crossroads and GIVING her soul to the devil. This is a true American tragedy.

What does worst entertainer mean in the context of this thread? Whitney Houston's musical choices have nothing to do with her immense talent which is the point. Yoko Ono has no talent, nada, zero. She is/was a tag along on Lennons shirt tails and I am surprised she is even mentioned. When will she go away? I never realized she had a career to tell the truth.