Singers who employ many different voices

[davis]

a kid called Fred

[trurl]

I have this CD

O.M.G. This is awesome.

[No Pride]

I have this CD

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[ronmac]

The only two who do it well IMO, seamlessy changing from low or midrange to screaming high vocals are Bruce Dickinson and Kai Hansen.

BUT Kai is the master of it, no one comes even close, he can sing in a baritone for part of a song then change over to extreme heights, almost counter-tenor w/o any loss of accuracy in the same song. First time I heard a Helloween album I thought the band had two regular singers.

Well, Harry Nilsson had a four-octave range and pretty much could do the same.

To me, I don't see Dickinson having as much range.

[ronmac]

I have that Tiny Tim album. Definitely off-the wall.

[No Pride]

Bobby McFerrin

I still haven't changed my mind.

[dang]

David Bowie
Tori Amos

[Lopez]

I have this CD

This is precisely the number I was thinking about in choosing Tiny as the multiple voice champ.

[moecurlythanu]

And I'll stick with Mr. Doctor. Between the sprechgesang, "regular" singing, and operatic singing, he covered a lot of ground.

[Progbear]

Well, Harry Nilsson had a four-octave range and pretty much could do the same.

I posted a song by Linda Lewis earlier in which she does it with surprisingly little effort. There’s also Minnie Riperton and Yma Sumac, who I’m sure have been already mentioned.

[progeezer]

When she was younger, Eartha Kitt for sure.

[davis]

I have that Tiny Tim album. Definitely off-the wall.

uh huh. Brave Combo isn't exactly on-the-wall.

[Ten Thumbs]

Arthur Brown, the god of hell fire.
There was also that impressionist who did all the voices on We Are the World on the Johnny Carson show many years ago.

[BigSixFan]

The lead singer of:

21st Century Schzoid Man (growl)
Epitaph (majestic)
Jerusalem (Choirboy)
Memoirs ('The telegram dropped from my hand') (deep register)

Another is Karen Carpenter, who can be high as a schoolgirl (Sing), wistful (most songs) and very deep (This Masquerade, Solitaire)

Bob

[MindFur]

Jewel. She likes to mix up her genres: at times alt-rock chick, little girl voice, country, rock, and capable of near perfect angelic (if you have heard her sing O Holy Night).