Greatest singers
Hmmm... interesting mix of favorites.
Male:
Cory Taylor from Slipknot. He can scream with the best of them, and sing beautifully too. Check out Bother by his side project, Stone Sour. Awesome....
Chris Cornell. I don't have to add anything else here....
Ian Gillan from Deep Purple.
Rob Halford ......from back in the day at least.
Female:
I'll start this with a pair of Kate's:
Kate Peirson from the B-52's. She's one of my favorites. Never mind the cheesy crap they wrote...listen to her execution. Wow.
Kate Bush. Anytime you hear female back-up vocals on a Peter Gabriel album ("Don't give up" for example...and that's her in the video too. She's HOT.) it's probably her. She was a HUGE success in England. Never caught on here. Too bad.....
Sarah Vaughn is up there too... Along with Billy Holiday.
Shirley Manson from Garbage. I saw them live at Roseland in Manhattan one night and I left totally floored.... She's one of THE best out there.
And as for my in-between gender vote:
Marilyn Manson. Say what you want, but unless you've experienced one of his shows, you have to take my word. Being in a crowd of luanatics all singing along to "Beautiful People" is mind-numbing. :-D