Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice?


There have been successful singers in almost any style that realistically did not have a "golden" voice.  Perhaps guilty pleasures.  Who are yours?

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Roy Orbison??

You gotta be joking.  Not just (by far) the best voice in the Wilburys, Orbison had one of the greatest male singing voices ever heard in rock, a pure soaring tenor.  Plus so sad he passed early, but that does mean his voice never aged or deteriorated.  We can love it forever.

Were you listening from the garden?

Given this is an audiophile forum, I’ll note that the Analogue Productions vinyl reissue of Roy’s Crying LP is knock-yer-socks-off glorious.

And yeah, most singers would kill to have a voice like Roy’s.