[Music] Who is your favorite Singer ?

[Markluzz]

Some of this may be the most pretentious things you have ever heard, but it's my honest opinion.

1. Who is your favorite Singer - This is hard, I like a ton and never really committed to a favorite, and although I am tempted to list a name of a Beatles singer, or from another classic rock band, I won't. I am going to go out on a limb here and say a classicist Broadway singer that hasn't died yet, Lea Salonga. Every time I have ever heard her sing (Even if it was the 50th time I heard her sing I dreamed a dream) I always get extreme chills and she has my full attention. It's something really special.

2. What is your favorite genre of music - I love many genres of music, but the top has to be Alternative Rock or Classical.

3. Why do you like him/her - Already said so, the main reason is her performance I Dreamed a Dream is one of the best things I have heard.

4. Mention your top 10 songs of your favorite singer - Since she is a broadway performer she doesn't have original songs so I will list my top 10 favorite songs period (these aren't definite, I LOVE many more than these ten, and anything on this list could really be my favorite)

1.Somewhere Over a Rainbow - I adore this song, and it's versatility in the way it can be performed is one of the reasons I love it.

2.Stairway To Heaven - This is the best rock song to be made, ever.

3.Requiem - Although on a technical level of achievement this should really be number one (and with how much I love even my top 200 favorite songs) any of these are really interchangeable, and could easily change by tomorrow. Mozart's best work here.

4.I Dreamed a Dream - Spectacular song, and it is a major standout out of a musical where every song is a standout song.

5.Concerning Hobbits (and all of the various reprises of the theme) - It was my favorite theme from the Lord of the Rings, and one of my favorite ones ever, nearly all the scenes that made me shed tears had this theme playing (not the more jolly one but still).

6.Let It Be - An amazing anthem song that really is the best closing song the Beatles could have as a group.

7.Fur Elise - It is Beethoven's most classic works, and probably the most classic work ever made, and so it deserves to be on here even though I don't absolutely love it.

8.Hallelujah - A great and timeless song now, plus there are so many great versions of it and no chief singer who really owns it making that much better.

9.When You Wish Upon a Star - It is Disney's true theme song, and is a great one at that.

10.The Stone - A very underrated song that is incredible in the raw power of it, big props to Dave Matthews Band for making it, definitely not to everybodies taste.

[Usako]

1. Who is your favorite Singer ? Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic)

2. What is your favorite genre of music ? I'm pretty open to a lot of music honestly. I have found I enjoy about anything.

3. Why do you like him/her ? Ryan's voice just swoons me I guess you could say. I am in love with his voice He is also just a very talented person who writes a lot of songs, songs for other artists and has a good set of vocal chords Did I mention I am in love with is voice? :P

4. Mention your top 10 songs of your favorite singer ?

Say (All I need)
Good Life
Marchin On
Gravity
Sexy Baby
Apologize
Feel Again
If I Loose Myself *OneRepublic's new single! It's wonderful! Check it out everyone!*
Secrets
All the Right Moves


Too bad Daft Punk don't actually have singers :P hehe, or I would name them. :P

[Lady Tygry]

1. Who is your favorite Singer - This is hard, I like a ton and never really committed to a favorite, and although I am tempted to list a name of a Beatles singer, or from another classic rock band, I won't. I am going to go out on a limb here and say a classicist Broadway singer that hasn't died yet, Lea Salonga. Every time I have ever heard her sing (Even if it was the 50th time I heard her sing I dreamed a dream) I always get extreme chills and she has my full attention. It's something really special.

I liked her better as Eponine personally. I had my fingers crossed that she would play Kim again in the Miss Saigon film adaptation but I worry they'll think she's too old now Maybe they'll at least give her a cameo, kind of like how Colm Wilkinson only gets to cameo as the bishop in Les Mis even though I still think he'd be solid as Valjean.

[sTyLnK]

Always loved Josh Groban, but really it's anyone that can actually sing or any song that has a good beat and the singer isn't cringeworthy. My favorite music is anything besides modern rap and music where people scream all the time.

[TheSquishie]

1. Who is your favorite Singer ? - Dead Can Dance, specifically Lisa Gerrard

2. What is your favorite genre of music ? Not sure what you call it... atmospheric, ethereal, mood music... Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Niyaz.

3. Why do you like him/her ? Her voice is simply the most beautiful, haunting female vocal I've ever heard. It gives me chills, it can make me cry, or feel elated, excited.. it always provokes a deep reaction in me.

4. Mention your top 10 songs of your favorite singer ? Elegy - Lisa Gerrard, The Host of Seraphim - DCD, Devorzhum - DCD, Dedicacé Outò - DCD, Song of the Sibyl - DCD, I am Stretched on Your Grave - DCD, The Ubiqitous Mr. Lovegrove - DCD, Sanvean - Lisa Gerrard, and her vocals which set the mood in a number of movies.

Elegy can be heard as the song that plays over the newest preview for Superman: Man of Steel. She's probably best known for her vocals in Gladiator, The Insider and Man on Fire.

[Markluzz]

I liked her better as Eponine personally. I had my fingers crossed that she would play Kim again in the Miss Saigon film adaptation but I worry they'll think she's too old now Maybe they'll at least give her a cameo, kind of like how Colm Wilkinson only gets to cameo as the bishop in Les Mis even though I still think he'd be solid as Valjean.

I think so too, but I am excited to see Hugh Jackman's take on Valjean...However I am not that excited to hear Russel Crowe as Javert.

[Majad]

Jessica Jung from SNSD, she has a really good voice that stands out a lot, compared to the other members, although the other members' are pretty good too!

The singer of Grimes, Claire Boucher. The way she controls her voice is just amazing, I love it a lot and her music is also very good.

And last, the singer of Lights, Valerie Anne Poxleitner, I love her voice a lot too, it's more less like Jessica's, one more reason I love it.

[Jackmoves]

Kate Bush
Magical voice. Most of my fave songs from her are from the "Hounds of love" album. Quality. Brilliant song writer to, she is just special, in a weird and wonderful way.

This is a bit of a darker song from her.

Lyrics:

It's wonderful.
Everywhere, so white.
The river has frozen over.
Not a soul on the ice.
Only me skating fast.
I'm speeding past trees,
Leaving little lines in the ice,
Cutting out little lines in the ice,
Splitting, splitting sound,
Silver heels spitting, spitting snow.

There's something moving
Under, under the ice,
Moving under ice,
Through water,
Trying to get out of the cold water.
"It's me."
Something, someone--help them.
"It's me."

[Lady Tygry]

I think so too, but I am excited to see Hugh Jackman's take on Valjean...However I am not that excited to hear Russel Crowe as Javert.

Me neither. I've only been able to find a couple clips of his singing, if you can call it that. It's a lot of pitchy yelling. I dread hearing Stars-- with this likely to be so many people's first exposure to the music, I'm worried he'll put a lot of them off.

[Wildtree]

1. Best singer....... Robert Plant
2. Fav Music Style....... Rock from alternative - classic


3. Top 10 Songs....

1. When the Levee Breaks
2. Since I've Been Loving You
3. How Many More times
4. Kashmir
5. Black Dog
6. Immigrant Song
7. Whole Lotta Love
8. No Quarter
9. D'yer Maker
10. Tangerine

[mrbadxampl]

there's a lot of vocalists I like for various reasons: Warren Zevon for his style, Les Claypool, recently got into Adele's music, Jack White, Serj Tankian, Chris Cornell, Tom Waits... but I think the favorite would be a much lesser-known rock guy named E (also known as Mark Oliver Everett) of the indie-ish rock band Eels

favorite genre would be rock, to be generic about it; metal, grunge, pop-rock (Tom Petty and such), alt-rock... a bit of indie here and there...

as far as why, mostly it's because of his lyrics, the theme that runs through most of his albums tends to be "wow, life sure sucks, but maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel somewhere" which speaks to me as a pessimist

my top ten for my chosen favorite would be:

1. Novocaine for the Soul
2. From Which I Came / A Magic World (actual title from the album)
3. Dog Faced Boy
4. Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (aka the song from the movie Road Trip "god damn right, it's a beautiful day, uh-huh")
5. Love of the Loveless
6. Your Lucky Day in Hell
7. Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
8. Rock Hard Times
9. The Sound of Fear
10. Mental

[RouVix]

Jerome Reuter from Rome has an amazing voice, so deep and colourful and warming. Now, be vary when searching for this particular 'Rome', you mind end up listening to shit rap and r&b. The one I'm talking about is a luxembourgian martial folk act.

Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth is also very, very great. I love his ability to so smoothly switch from clear vocals to absolutely stunning growls.

[Stormcall]

1. Who is your favorite Singer ? (as mentioned above)

I can't say that I have one favorite for sure, I have a lot of them. Among them, Zak Stevens(Savatage, Circle II Circle), Ronnie James Dio(Dio, Black Sabbath), Matt Barlow(Iced Earth), Jon Oliva(Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Nils Patrick Johannsen(Wuthering Heights, Astral Doors, various others)...the list could go on. And I can't just list the "top", cause there isn't a "top", I like them all equally, and who I want to hear simply depends on my mood at the time(and the musical style I want to hear. Barlow and Stevens both kick ass, but since Zak sings in a theatrical prog metal band and Matt sings in a power/thrash band, I'm not likely to pop in something Zak sings on if I'm in an angry mood and wanting something fast and aggressive to blast)

2. What is your favorite genre of music ? (i.e) pop or rock or hip hop or rap etc..,

Metal and classic rock are my top choices.

3. Why do you like him/her ?

I like them all for various reasons. The power in their voice, the tone and style, the range and technique...depends on which singer. Like, with Zak Stevens, I love the power and tone of his voice, I love the passion in his singing. With Jon, Savatage's other singer, I love his range, his intense emotional delivery, his ability to truly convey that he feels what he is singing.

4. Mention your top 10 songs of your favorite singer ?

I'll go with 5 songs each from Zak and Jon
Jon:
When the Crowds Are Gone(one of my favorite songs, ever)
Gutter Ballet
Hall of the Mountain King
Believe
Doesn't Matter Anyway

Zak:
Chance
Watching in Silence
This Isn't What We Meant
The Wake of Magellan
The Hourglass

All songs are performed by Savatage, with the exception of Watching in Silence, by Circle II Circle(it sounds like a Savatage song though and even the title is a callback to a lyric from Savatage's "This is the Time", which Zak also song on).