Beautiful male singing voices

Steve Perry, George Michael

Ray Charles

Johnny Mathis

YES, Op!!! Ricky Nelson’s “That’s All” is exquisite. With his looks and velvet voice, why he wasn’t a bigger star is mind-boggling.

George Michael.

Daryl Hall.

Art Garfunkel, Luther Vandross, Nat King Cole

Like: Vic Damone, Perry Como, Harry Connick, Michael Buble, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Tyrell

OK: Sinatra, Andy Williams

Hate: Dean Martin, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby

Tim Buckley

Smokey Robinson

Jeffrey Osborne

Ron Isley

Johnny Mathis.

I mean COME ON.

Glenn Jones

Teddy Pendergrass

Chet Baker

Bobby Hatfield

Lou Gramm

J.C. Chasez

Jefferson Airplane’s Marty Balin. Gorgeous voice esp on “Today” and “Miracles” The mix of his voice with Grace Slick on “Miracles” is sheer perfection.

Marvin Gaye.

Listen to THIS shit! "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Live isolated vocals. Singing starts at 0.20 seconds.

Blows my tits off.

Nat King Cole, Marvin Gaye, Brook Benton, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke, Bill Withers, Tony Williams, Al Green, Smokey Robinson, etc.

Henderson Lawson, Helen’s illegitimate son. He sang “ Disco Inferno” like no one else.

I so much prefer male voices.

I jerked off to Jim Morrison's voice as a gayling.

Peter Gabriel.

Luther Vandross, Chris Isaak, Marvin Gaye

.....

Lou Rawls

Michael Crawford

Donate your eardrums to science, R29.

What about my raspy sore throat voice?

Dallas Green

RHCP Anthony Kiedis named his son after the Everly Brothers.

Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze.

I can't believe Bryan Adams' dog didn't start howling.

You want raspy? Try Linus Hemker

Elliott Smith

Lol@george Michael

James Ingram

Patrick Fiori

The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson) and the touring Beach Boys, who included Glen Campbell and Bruce Johnston.

Patrick Watson

Sam Smith

Nate Dogg. For some reason I find his voice soothing. He has a slow vibrato which I love.

Avi Kaplan

John Grant

Clay Aiken

38 Special’s lead singer.

Shinedown’s lead singer.

Brad Delp.

Teddy Thompson

No love for the gays? Darren Hayes and Andy Bell have amazing, pitch perfect voices.

Also, Donny Hathaway (not gay that I know of) had an amazing voice.

Chris Isaak - love the high notes

Gene Pitney. I love his crackling angsty sound. He never shied away from the dramatic high notes.

Luis Miguel

R4: Nelson had more charting songs in his peak years (59-64) than anyone except Elvis and the execrable Pat Boone, and had more chart topping songs than either. He also had a regular audience on his parents' sitcom, doing a song every few episodes. He was able to attract some of the best session musicians of his time and one of the best producers. You could hardly have been bigger. Like everyone lese in his cohort, he was knocked off teh charts by the British Invasion and the rise of Motown.

Nelson's voice is even more beautiful when you watch him sing.

This voice caught me up short.

I take it we're sticking to pop and jazz here.

Mathis and the young Sinatra own this thread, although there are plenty of Hon. Mentions.

As the guy in the film "Diner" pointed out when this discussion came up with a friend, "If you want to make out, who do you put on, Mathis or Sinatra?"

Naturally, the answer is Mathis.

Isaak's highest note was F#5.

Then there was Roy Orbison - Highest note E6.

Elvis held Roy Orbison is very high regard, publicly stating that Roy had ' most perfect voice' and referring to him as the 'greatest singer in the world' during one of his Vegas concerts.

Jonsi from Sigur Rós

Cai Thomas has a purity of tone that's notable even for a treble.

Paul Carrack

Jimmie Rodgers. Not the Singing Brakeman, I’m talkin Honeycomb and Scarlet Ribbons.

R60 - “Treble”. 🤪

Teddy Thompson (with a bonus Rufus)

Guy Garvey (of Elbow)

John Grant (of the Czars and solo)

Peabo Bryson

Love the power and almost operatic quality of Tom Jones - famous for having the biggest dick in the biz?

Saw Steve Kazee in Once and was so impressed with his voice. That he subsequently damaged it was a pity. He seems to have been absorbed now by the incredibly thirsty Jenna Dewan.

Guess he was thinner then. Still a cutey though.

Philip Rucker – Reddit AMA:

When I was even younger, I was a competitive figure skater!

oops wrong thread

Jimmy Holmes from the 50s iteration of the Ink Spots

Gary Morris has one of the best baritone voices I’ve ever heard.

We liked him, too, r73.

You'll make fun of me, but these voices are perfection.

R73 Gary Morris was a baritone?

Morten Harket (of a-ha)

Jeff Buckley, here with Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins

Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call 1952

Marc Anthony

Jim Nabors better known as Gomer Pyle, I don't know I ever heard him sing a song I liked but he did have an amazing voice.

Marvin Gaye, David Ruffin, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Johnny Nash, Paul McCartney, Lou Rawls, Glenn Tilbrook.

Mick Hucknall (Simply Red)

Steve Ellis, who is about 17 here.

I think some of you love the song, not necessarily the singer.

I love the richness of Roger Whittaker's baritone.

R75 Someone needs to explain that video -- who / why is the chick in the striped shirt? Is she supposed to represent someone?

R73 Roger Whitacker R86 is a baritone!

Fred Neil

The thread says, "Beautiful" male voices. Tom Jones did not have a beautiful voice. He had a big, sexy voice, but it wasn't beautiful.

Left off so far: Mandy Patinkin, rare tenor in the phalanx of baritones that pop music seems to favour.

And as far as musicals go, the incomparable Gordon MacRae must get out a mention for the nearly operatic reach of his smooth, rich baritone.

Ben Watt

Sufjan Stevens sounds (and looks) amazing

Something a bit different... progressive rock/metal singer James Labrie's young voice was incredible. So rich and diverse with some killer high notes.

Jack Cassidy, if we include Broadway voices.

It depends on how you define “beautiful”. Is it “it could be sung by a woman” beautiful or is it “the epitome of masculinity” beautiful?

Michael Franks.

Chase Eagleson

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't think Pavarotti's voice was too "big" to be beautiful. And I don't think Tom Jones' voice is either.

Bobby Vinton - I Love How You Love Me

This is beautiful.

Joshua Sade James

Bill Kenny

Martin Gore (Depeche Mode)

The great John Gary singing My Foolish Heart.

Nat King Cole, Stardust

R95 - not really. Most beautiful voices have the same things in common: purity of tone, reach, flexibility, a pleasure to the ears regardless of what is being sung.

That said, pop music does tend to favour baritones. First, it's by far the most common male voice, natural tenors are much rarer, and being deeper, it sounds more masculine. If masculinity is your top priority, obviously counter-tenors are off your list.

Presley, Sinatra, Jones, Crosby, the Broadway and musicals stars like MacRae and John Raitt, and (not mentioned so far but a gorgeous voice) Howard Keel (bass-baritone), the crooners - almost all baritones.

But there's no magic in defining a beautiful voice, be it male or female.

Stef Classens