I like male singers. I have very few female singers on my phone.

We all have our secrets Hanco nothing to be ashamed of.........

I really don't have a preference, I just like a good strong voice.

I'm a metalhead. Few female singers succeed there.

Depends on the music, pretty much no bias here

Heart sucks

I like good music.
I don't care who sings if they are good.

In general, I don't like hearing high pitched female voices. For choral music, I HATE hearing women's voices. It's almost painful. I greatly prefer men's choirs.

If the lady is a really exceptional singer, though, I can fall in love.

Female. Allison Krause comes on and I get all stupid. Lol

Is this a trick question?

As long as they don't wail or warble like so many
no talent famous "singers " do these days, I have
no preference.

The Star Spangled Banner is my benchmark for
a singer. If they can make it through that correctly
and not string out "free" into " free-eee-yee-yee-eee"
and "brave " into " bur- ay- ee- vuh" and such well
we'll probably get along ok

Stringing out single syllables into multiples
shows a lack of genuine talent

Bonnie Raitt
Whitney Houston
Dianna Ross and the Supremes

There’s enough dang female chin music in this house, I don’t go searching for extra of it on the youtube.

Not heavy metal.

Was checking YouTube, came across a Lizzie hale / Amy lee video. Pretty good.

I like baritone voices. George Strait, Josh Turner, etc

For sure I don't prefer......................



Tay Tay

I’ve moved on...she’s all piano and whiney now


I give you Poppy

I probably would be aloowed to go within 500ft of her, she like 23

She looks al of 14. Not sure I want to get within 500' of her. Might get taken the wrong way.

I'm kinda liking the lead singer of The Regrettes lately myself.

Agreed.

Way back I saw Kate Bush on the Kenny Everett Video Show.
Weird voice, but odd n cute..........yeah, crush.

I like Liv Kristine (Theatre of Tragedy)on some stuff, and Christina Scabia (Lacuna Coil)
Amy Lee can sing better though.
Like Chibi from The Birthday Massacre, but live vids have her sounding pretty bad (dunno if studio work enhanced a lot or not).

Male singers, I like lower end..............fave was Peter Steele.
Am listening to Michelle Darkness (Michael Huber) at the moment. Not as good but all we have these days.

Liked Paul DiAnno with Maiden, Bruce is different and possibly an acquired taste.

I gave it a whirl, I’ll run it by the 17 ur old here.

I don't care. as long as they have a strong, melodic voice and sing good songs from the heart.

It depends upon the song! memtb

Nothing great, but works with the bands overall style and I find it pleasant.

Have spun this YT little concert a few times.
Just one tune from it here.......


again, nothing jaw dropping, but pleasant for me

Female.

Lots of awesome cover singers live on YouTube, including J.Fla, and this gal:



Cute as a kitten, sings like a bird.

Hope she enjoys them

This one might be off her trolley

She certainly looks like fun!

Somebody need to fix that gal a sandwich, lots of 'em.

Joann Heart, Leann Rimes,

I'm Italian.

I'm figuring she didn't eat as much noodles as our family did.

Not sure she ever ate anything!

Yeah I've never been into chubby gals but those pony tails...........back then, I'd push her around like a broom

Maybe one of them macrobiotic dieters?

His Xmas tune is pretty good

goth band Cruxshadows........

Hasn't aged well, proly marbled OK



Was gonna go with my oldest and see this fall, but tour cancelled.
Was gonna see Rotting Christ in Chicago too, cancelled earlier this yr.

Fuggin Covid.

The Three Terrors



Studio Halford version w Bruce

No disrespect, but you all like some strange music

One of my favorites..........fake live album..............laugh my azz off

Well,

some of it certainly ain't TX Dance Hall music................

But I like that kind on occasion too.

(Bob Wills is STILL the King )

I like the background chant type crap........crazy azzed foreigners (heavy accent, Greek)..........(various songs)
Not a fan of the lead singers style though, but overall I dig this silly chit

Growling German goth stuff.............hate to admit it's catchy




rather listen to this than that fuggin country radio station stuff (my ol lady plays it in her Jeep).

I like all sorts of stuff, but no country or rap. No damn Aerosmith either.

Pot metal............Warrant, Ratt, Poison etc.............never. No Def Leppard either.
Metallica sucked balls after the Black Album.

TBM (The Birthday Massacre- esp older albums), Type O Negative, Iron Maiden, Theatre of Tragedy (older)..........I usually fall back to. Spend a ton of time trying to find new good stuff.
Work 2nds so nothing else to do at 2 am (like now). I like electronica, but not the hammering dance beat of most.
What do they call it.............darkwave, synth, ambient..............lots of cool soundscapes..........but usually one hit wonders the bands are.

I can chill to this, a lot like the Cure.
Robert Smith (the Cure) not anything great vocal wise, but like his unique sound.
Think that may be a selling point with me, something unique, not necessarily perfection or wider range.

Dark album, unique voice, cool tune

Man would’ve loved to seen these guys live!

Give me Ronnie James Dio

Got chit to do, better call it a night. Slam two beers and listen to more of my favorite weird music............spin this album proly.

Toodles.............Liv Kristine has limited range, but I like to just listen to her voice.

Derek St Holmes

Saw that little fugger (barely and was just 16 rows back) when Motorhead and Dio opened for Maiden in 2003?
Visions of the Beast tour.

He sounded live like in studio. Belted out a wall of sound. Good stuff

Pete I guess was fugged up a lot and hurt the performances on many shows (so I've read).
Youtube home vids of shows, do not tell how the audience heard it.
Might have been great if there, but comes across as crap on somebody's camera, or maybe even the other way around.

Would have liked to have seen em on the October Rust tour. There was a bootleg "Autumn in Indianapolis" on YT, when some channel called "Tyep O TV" was on.
Maybe Roadrunners got mad, had that channel killed. Lots of cool stuff was there.

That bootleg was from the Emerson, where the kid and I were gonna see TBM this fall. I was working a lot back when October Rust came out, so missed it.


Think if the sound right, that show and Maiden in '85 World Slavery Tour...........those 2 shows, and I could have died happy.
Seen Maiden 7 times now, front row 99 at smaller venue when Bruce came back
.
Had tix for Type O, in Chicago, at the Metro............on Halloween and had two strippers fighting for my extra ticket (was divorced).
Alas, Pete beat the chit out of some dude banging his ol lady and went to jail over it, month prior. Life is Killing me tour cancelled.

Was gonna go see em on the Dead Again tour......but closest was East St Louis and nobody wanted to go with me.
Figured alone might not be smart at that venue.

Bruce Dickinson

Ain't that the truth!!

About the only female singers I listen to are Patsy Cline and Allison Krause. Like was said above, can't stand that echo warble, syllable stretching, halfway yodeling crap, reminds me of a coyote howling.

One thing I don't like, male, female or whatever, is a damnable devil worshiper.

Janice Joplin - easy on the eyes.

The national anthem was mentioned. I was pleased to hear the rendition of the anthem by Lady Gaga. She is a very good singer with a very good voice which, for a lot of her career, she hid behind a bunch of pretentious crap.
Allison Krause, Suzy Boggus, Etta James. All those old Motown chicks. I like women. I like to listen to male singers too but kind of prefer the women. Better to look at too. Taylor Swift is an exception. OK to look at, I guess, but her CDs are best used as reactive targets. GD

I like Beth Hart, especially with Joe Bonamassa

Ditto. I did like Janet Gardner and Maria Sjoholm though.

Anna Siminska............ amazing

Lucia Popp.............. Better


IMHO

Thread seems to have devolved into genres of music instead of male/female voices.

To the original question, for individual singers I like a soothing female voice but also like male harmonies - Loreena McKennit needs a lot of gauze and soft focus for her pictures but I can listen to her for a good long while, same with Norah Jones. Old CSNY cd's are equally easy to listen to. Harsh, angry music of any kind isn't something enjoyable to hear but strong music is - think Death Metal vs. Beethoven's 9th symphony sung by a good choir. People who sing like they like singing are always good no matter the genre, the "in your face, look at how different and new and shocking I am" is old, old, old - some "new, shocking!" band or singer pops up like clockwork and then quickly fades into obscurity every few years and has been doing so as long as I can remember. Old guys still doing it is slightly sad and pathetic.

There are tons and tons of good singers and musicians out there both famous and unknown, youtube is your friend finding those. The Regrettes is an example of a very good little band, they seem to enjoy what they do. Look up Andrea Motis, she's a young (early 20's now) jazz singer from Spain who's very talented, there are several videos of her when she was just 12-14 and you can see the talent there already.

Male singers, and very few female singers. The female singers are of my generation.

Each to their own.

Lynn

Different kinds of singers/styles, fit different types of music.
So singer IMHO does have a link to genre.

But...........................

I enjoy both, but I feel a little silly when I'm belting out some Linda Ronstadt in the shop and someone comes in.

I really like old Reba songs too. Not just voice, but content. I like songs that tell a story.

Might be the first time I've ever heard that.

Yer Heartless.........

That is the kinda pedo schidt that'd get some HS teachers all horned up..........

Do a quick search on that Halford fugg. I've not one kind thing to say. Defines hog food. But then I'd shoot and burn the hogs too.

Why not together?

I'm still pissed Peter Steele is gone.
I REALLY liked his voice. Nothing comes close. Been digging for a long time on web. Nope.

When Dickenson quit Maiden for a spell my guitar bud and I were chatting, the band had put in Blaze Bayley (who sucked).
Told him................they should have gotten Dio.

His response?

"They would have been mighty".




Anyway, couple of my fave Type O songs, liked some of their more punk thrash but this stuff is slow and cool.

Would y’all like to buy a CD of my church quartet?

Hell yeah man. That's a good tune.

I love me some George and Tammy, Conway and Loretta, etc. When it works it's magic.

Are you easily the biggest man in it, and does your daughter produce NFL linebackers? By any chance would you have an Uberlanche for a decent price?

Easily. I sell annuities as well if anyone is interested. Also looking for a kidney.

God bless

I just happened to discover her a few days ago. She is darlin.

The rest of you, though, have really horrible, horrible, horrible taste in "music".... no wonder America is shot to hell.

This chick can sing and hot as a bootleg firecracker




They have some great stuff on YouTube.

Yep, Mandolin Orange is one of my favorite groups.
I don't care if a singer is male or female, I just like hood music.

Good's good, bad's bad, no matter to me.

I like good singers who sing songs that tell a story.

I do not like singers, especially female, who hit you over the head all the time trying to prove what great pipes they have. Many black females sing like that, but so do many white church ladies. Carrie Underwood is a great singer, but she seems to choose songs, or chooses to sing songs, where she belts it out almost angrily. What's wrong with some subtlety? Sing a ballad once in a while.

I like to be able to hear what they are singing. So many, you only pick up a word or two and then the chorus. Male and Female.

I appreciate both male and female vocals, but the range and power of this guy's vocals sets him apart from damn near anybody else I can think of right now.

He is a classically-trained singer too. Ignore the "snakebite" face jewelry and listen for 30 seconds with you eyes closed -- that is how long it took to hook me!



John

Yeah Gruff, but she's a backwards jailbait type. 23 but looks 13.

Cops should hire her for stings, working corners and such.

I figured you for a hood rat . . .

Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton had some of the best duets I've ever listened to IMHO. Her voice was great on it's own, but paired with a male it was exceptional.

Carrie Underwood has a set of pipes, and should use them to scare bats out of chimneys as far as I'm concerned.

Best female standalone voice I think is Allison Moorer. Damn I love her voice.

Ashley Monroe /w jack white and Ricky Skaggs



Ashley jamming with the Steelwoods

Nah, Henderson man, not West Vegas.

LOL..............blastin Monster Magnet now...........old school stoner rock.
Wyndorf does an OK job

Space Lord Mother Mother

Hanks granddaughter Is pretty good.

I generally prefer male vocals. Doesn't feel right singing along with a woman when she's wailing on about sucking dik.

I can sing this one by Jamey Johnson like I lived it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvRqwQab3k

That is truly a stirring vocal performance. He takes his voice all over the place in that one.

I have no real preference, I just appreciate a really good voice.

Like Grace's. And it's not overpowered by the group of musicians on this album, including Papa John Creach on violin.

Looks good in black too

Might look OK in the buff too.

Postmodern Jukebox is a cornucopia of excellent singers, both male and female.

Saw them open for Maiden in '99. Didnt know WTF they were. Rocked it pretty good LOL

Sex drugs and rock n roll........bewbie warning

Ha ha.

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free................for them guys for sure.

Kojack's daughter is a hoot. Like those tap-dancing gals too.

Ain't no "might" about it. Kinda in an Asian groove right now, but select white devils catch my eye as well. As my wife likes to say, "You can think about it!"

Friend's wife used to not mind him going to the strip clubs.

Said "I don't care where he gets his appetite, as long as he eats at home"

Don't think she wants me thinking quite that much. Bars of any sort fell out of my fun basket decades ago anyway.

She'd be just as upset about me breaking quarrantine as seeing nekked wimmins.

Hung out with Cristina Scabbia at an ozzfest years ago, beautiful girl and she can sing

Been on a Mike Patton kick lateley, joker can sing anything

Man...Type O was one I came across after the fact, I remember the first time I heard October Rust, one of my top 5 albums of all time. Peter was a heck of song writer and lyricist. Wish I could have seen them.

Definitely. They have a lot of good singers but she also has a lot of personality and stage presence. She always seems to stand out in a duet or trio.

Being bad here. Some good horn accompaniment as well.