Excellent singers with unusual voices.

[Biscuit]

Not to everyone's taste but in the vein of the Rod Stewarts and Bob Dylans of this world I'll plump for Tom Waits.

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[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Bjork

 

[bhaexpress]

Justin Hawkins.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

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[Notters]

Paul Robeson, shirley?

 

[The Large One]

Feargal Sharkey

 

[Zamora For England]

Morrissey.

 

[LennyD]

Ben Ottewell, one of the singers from Gomez. Awesome voice.

 

[challengechappers]

Neko Case, Ian Felice (Felice Brothers), Mark Lanegan all get my vote

 

[Norman Potting]

Ellie Goulding

 

[Buzzer]

Mary Margaret O'Hara - have a listen to her singing backing vocals on 'November spawned a Monster'.

Antony Hegarty - from Antony and the Johnsons. Very idiosyncratic

Jamie McDermott from the Irrepressibles - similar to Antony and the Johnsons.

Olaf Arnalds - protege of Bjork and a real Icelandic treat

Fever Ray - kind of barks her songs at times

Aneka - Anglo/German who definitely shouts in a fine Teutonic way

Alina Orlova - Lithuanian warbly kind of Regina Spector

Mary Gauthier - American country (type) singer

Joanna Newsom - quite wacky

Stina Nordenstam - see Joanna Newsom

.....will that do for now?

 

[beorhthelm]

Macy Gray.

 

[Racek]

Tracy Chapman

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Feargal Sharkey

Great call.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Cerys Matthews from Catatonia.

 

[Miami Seagull]

Shakira, and gorgeous to boot...

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Gerry Humphries from the great 60's Aussie band The Loved Ones had an unusual singing style.

 

[Buzzer]

Actually - country and folk singing is littered with warblers and yodellers. Dick Gaughan, Lindisfarne, Steeleye Span, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Sandy Denny.

Johnny Cash's missus had a superb yodel on her. Hank Williams could yodel like an Austrian. Dr John sings like he's got a mouth full of jambalaya.

 

[public school boy]

Nina Hagen, Klaus Nomi, Sal Solo.

 

[Fungus]

Steve Forbert, Buffy Sainte-Marie.