Great Voices From Your Home Town

[László]

Detroit has sure had a lot of great singers. In the mid-60s we had this guy and his band: Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.

If this isn't one of the most perfect of rock and roll singers, there were no great rock and roll singers.

Who ya got?

 

[Xtcclassic]

Gotta go with Tina on this one.

 

[veinbuster]

I grew up in pretty small places. My mom probably had the best voice in most of them.

 

[Senor Verde]

I'm not a fan, but we had Prince.

Also:

Bob Dylan (not a favorite voice to everyone)
Judy Garland
Andrews Sisters

 

[FatFingerBlues]

Also from Detroit

Martha & the Vandellas - Heatwave

 

[dmatthews]

This is one of my fav songs to play. Local band Matthew Good...

 

[Davey]

Born and raised in Seattle.
A lot of great voices and bands....blessed to have seen some really great shows at some great venues; The Paramount, The Moore Theatre, Under The Rail, The OK hotel, The Offramp, The Vogue, Ballard Firehouse.

First in my list because it is hard to argue who is undoubtedly one of the best voices and ranges in rock.
Chris Cornell

Or a great female rock voice with a phenomenal range.
Ann Wilson

Geoff Tate

Layne Staley

Maybe not popular because of his voice, but I heard he had pretty good guitar skills and I think there is maybe an amp or 2 named after him
Jimi Hendrix

Seattle had Bing Crosby too, but not what I'd consider a rock voice.

There are many other popular bands/vocalists but not what I'd consider "Great Voices" as the title asked. Don't get me wrong, they sing great, just not top of the list...Pearl Jam, Candlebox, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Mudhoney. I know I'm probably missing some.

 

[Black Plaid]

This guy seems pretty popular, and is from Spokane, of all places

Also, not bad taste in guitars.

 

[bodia]

From Iowa, probably Andy Williams

 

[Headset]

Gloria Estefan from Miami

Mi Tierra

 

[Jimmy Ramone]

 

[László]

Detroit can also claim The Four Tops. Glenn Frey, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Jack White, Eminem, J Dilla, Mary Wells, Sufjan Stevens, Aretha Franklin, Suzi Quatro, Anita Baker, Ted Nugent, Ray Parker, Jr., Kid Rock, The Winans, Jackie Wilson, Iggy Pop, Wilson Pickett, MC5, Don Was, Hank Ballard, Greta Van Fleet, Pete Anderson, Gregg Bissonette, Marvin Gaye, Parliament/Funkadelic, and more others than I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[veinbuster]

Detroit can also claim The Four Tops. Glenn Frey, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Jack White, Eminem, J Dilla, Mary Wells, Sufjan Stevens, Aretha Franklin, Suzi Quatro, Anita Baker, Ted Nugent, Ray Parker, Jr., Kid Rock, The Winans, Jackie Wilson, Iggy Pop, Wilson Pickett, MC5, Don Was, Hank Ballard, Greta Van Fleet, Pete Anderson, Gregg Bissonette, Marvin Gaye, Parliament/Funkadelic, and more others than I can think of off the top of my head.

Basically everybody

 

[d4rkst4r]

This almost needs to categorized by genre because there are so many. But to stay in the lane I've spent the majority of my life in as a lifelong Chicago boy, I seem to keep coming back to Dennis DeYoung.

 

[Maertl513]

(Source: https://www.metal-hammer.de/scorpions-rudolf-ist-offen-gegenueber-rueckkehr-von-michael-2237537/)

From my current hometown - I moved around a little bit as a reason of my job - are those two lads, who let guitars sing.

Literally singers?
John Kay (Steppenwolf) lived in our county's capital.

Multi times Grammy winner Thomas Quasthoff, baritone voice, was born and raised in the county's capital. He was at the same grammar school/gymnasium (Gymnasium Andreanum, first record of the school was back in 1225) as myself. My brother in law did a bank clerk apprenticeship with him. I had the privilege to join a small charity concert of him, he was accompanied on piano by Ragna Schirmer. She did aswell her exams at the same school. Her brother Rouven (cellist) was in the parallel class of myself.

Composers: Classical composer of the baroque epoche Georg Philipp Telemann was pupil of our school in the late 17th century. The school forged his musical foundation. He moved prior exams.

 

[László]

Basically everybody

If only we could claim the Beatles, it'd really piss Sergio off to have to hear about it.

 

[László]

Composers: Classical composer of the baroque epoche Georg Philipp Telemann was pupil of our school in the late 17th century. The school forged his musical foundation. He moved prior exams.

Telemann was my introduction to Baroque music. He was a genius, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[markd21]

Wade Black
Zak Stevens
Jon Oliva
Todd LaTorre
Rob Thomas

 

[Kiwi]

From Dallas, Texas (it's something in the water here) - read it and weep, Austin:

Boz Scaggs
Steve Miller
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan
Meat Loaf
Erykah Badu
St Vincent / Annie Clark
Demi Lovato
Dusty Hill
The (Dixie) Chicks
Norah Jones
Post Malone
Rev. Horton Heat
Polyphonic Spree
Toadies
Old 97s
Lee Ann Rimes
Kelly Clarkson
Vinnie Paul
Roy Hargrove
Doyle Bramhall I and II
Michael Nesmith
Robert Johnson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
T-Bone Walker
Lead Belly
Stephen Stills (yes!)
Ray Price
Charlie Pride

And I could keep going:

Category:Musicians from Dallas - Wikipedia

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[michaeln]

Palo Alto California was my home town growing up. Joan Baez, Greg Rollie, Jerry Garcia were all locals.