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by Varla_Kicked_Ass | created - 06 Aug 2012 | updated - 08 Aug 2012 | Public20 of the best singers I've ever heard. (Not ranked.)
Most of them are Soul singers, because that's my favorite music genre.
1-10 Female
11-20 Male
1. Whitney Houston
Soundtrack | The Bodyguard
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston (née Emily Lee Drinkard) and John Russell Houston, Jr., and cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick.
She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope ...
Songs to check out: I Will Always Love You, Greatest Love of All, and I'm Every Woman
2. Sharon Jones
Soundtrack | The Great Debaters
Born Sharon Lafaye Jones in Augusta, Georgia, she moved to New York City at an early age. With a gifted voice, performing gospel songs in Church, since childhood, she has only recently received acclaim by the public and her peers in the areas of Soul, Funk and Rhythm and Blues. Until the late 90s ...
Songs to check out: Better Things, 100 Days, 100 Nights, and Mama Don't Like My Man
3. Jake Zyrus
Actor | Here Comes the Boom
Jake Zyrus (known as Charice Pempengco prior to his gender transition) was born in Cabuyao, Philippines. When he was three years old, he witnessed his abusive father point a gun at his mom during an episode of domestic violence. Along with his mother and younger brother Carl, they left their father...
Song to check out: Pyramid
4. Ultra Naté
Soundtrack | 54
Ultra Naté was born in 1968 in Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for 54 (1998), Formula 51 (2001) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).
Songs to check out: If You Could Read My Mind and Found a Cure
5. Dawn Robinson
Actress | Tank Girl
Dawn Robinson is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Robinson is best known as a founding member of the R&B/Pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best selling girl groups of all time. In 2013, she joined the cast of R&B Divas: Los Angeles for the first season of the series. Throughout her...
Song to check out: Don't Let Go (Love)
6. Mavis Staples
Soundtrack | My Blueberry Nights
Mavis Staples was born on July 10, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for My Blueberry Nights (2007), The Help (2011) and Dumplin' (2018).
Songs to check out: Let's Do It Again and I'll Take You There
7. Tracie Thoms
Actress | Rent
Tracie Thoms has had wide-ranging success in film, television and theatre throughout her busy career.
Tracie's currently a series regular opposite Oscar winner Octavia Spencer on the Apple series, Truth Be Told, while at the same time recurring on Fox's 9-1-1 and ABC's Station 19.
Tracie realized a ...
Songs to check out: Seasons of Love, Take Me or Leave Me, and I'll Cover You (Reprise)
8. Dionne Warwick
Soundtrack | Alive
Dionne Warwick was born on December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Alive (1993), The Happytime Murders (2018) and Bird Box (2018). She was previously married to William Elliott.
Songs to check out: Walk on By and I Say a Little Prayer
9. Dinah Washington
Soundtrack | Shutter Island
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the former Ruth Lee Jones moved with her family to Chicago as a young girl. She considered the Windy City her true home. And it was there in early 1940s that a local nightclub owner provided her first gig - and a new name that she would make famous. By 1959 she had ...
Songs to check out: What a Diff'rence a Day Makes and Mad About the Boy
10. Marion Williams
Soundtrack | Fried Green Tomatoes
Marion Williams was born on August 29, 1927 in Miami, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), A Fall from Grace (2020) and Small Time (1990). She died on July 2, 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Songs to check out: Cool Down Yonder and Big George
11. Earth Wind & Fire
Soundtrack | Ready Player One
Earth Wind & Fire is known for Ready Player One (2018), Doctor Strange (2016) and Polar (2019).
Songs to check out: Devotion (Live), Wanna Be With You, and That's the Way of the World
12. Charles Aznavour
Actor | Tirez sur le pianiste
Beloved French chanson entertainer Charles Aznavour, who wrote more than 800 songs, recorded more than 1,000 of them in French, English, Italian, German and Spanish and sold over 100 million records in all, was born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian on May 22, 1924, in Paris, the younger of two ...
Song to check out: Quand tu m'aimes
13. Jeff Buckley
Soundtrack | Vanilla Sky
Jeff Buckley was born on November 17, 1966 in Anaheim, California, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Vanilla Sky (2001), Tell No One (2006) and Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You (2002). He died on May 29, 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Songs to check out: Everybody Here Wants You and Opened Once
14. Marvin Gaye
Soundtrack | High Fidelity
Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. (known professionally as Marvin Gaye; April 2, 1939 - April 1, 1984) was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, earning him the nicknames ...
Songs to check out: I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Let's Get It On, and What's Going On
15. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Soundtrack | Godzilla
All Hawaii mourned, and more than 10,000 people turned out for a state funeral in honor of Israel Ka'anoi "Brudda Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole. The son of Henry Kalei'aloha Naniwa and Evangeline Leinani Kamakawiwo'ole, Israel was surrounded by music growing up; his uncle was Moe Keale, a very well-known and ...
Song to check out: Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
16. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Soundtrack | 2012
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born on October 13, 1948 in Lyallpur, Punjab, Pakistan [now Faisalabad, Pakistan]. He was a music artist and composer, known for 2012 (2009), Blood Diamond (2006) and Natural Born Killers (1994). He was married to Naheed Nusrat. He died on August 16, 1997 in London, ...
Songs to check out: Yeh Jo Halka Halka Suroor Hai and The Long Road
17. Meat Loaf
Actor | The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas, to Wilma Artie (Hukel), a teacher and gospel singer, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1967 to play in local bands. In 1970, he moved to New York and appeared in the Broadway musicals "Hair", "Rockabye Hamlet" ...
Song to check out: I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
18. Jesse L. Martin
Actor | Rent
Jesse Martin was born Jesse Lamont Watkins in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountain range. His mother, Virginia Price, was a college career counselor. His father, Jesse Reed Watkins, was a truck driver. His parents divorced when he was very young. His mother then moved his family to Buffalo, New York. He ...
Songs to check out: I'll Cover You (Reprise), Santa Fe, and I'll Cover You
19. Yves Montand
Actor | Jean de Florette
Yves Montand was born on October 13, 1921 in Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Jean de Florette (1986), Z (1969) and The Wages of Fear (1953). He was married to Simone Signoret. He died on November 9, 1991 in Senlis, Oise, France.
Song to check out: Coucher avec elle
20. Steve Perry
Soundtrack | Independent Lens
Steve Perry was born on January 22, 1949 in Hanford, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Independent Lens (1999), The Losers (2010) and Tron: Legacy (2010).
Songs to check out: Open Arms and Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
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