You know what I’m talking about. You’re sitting around listening to music and then you hear this voice. It stops you in your tracks. And you MUST listen to it again.
My “voice” is Sarah Buxton. I had never heard of her, nor anything that she’s sang, but she sings background on Cowboy Troy’s track, “If You Don’t Wanna Love Me.”
The song itself is pretty good, but I just listen for her.
Kate Bush.
mmmmm.
Annie Haslam.
Mmmmmm and a half.
If spoken-word recordings count, I fell in love with the voice of Sir John Gielgud when I was 12 years old. I used to listen over and over to an LP of Gielgud’s “Ages of Man,” in which he read from Shakespeare. Didn’t know until many years later that Gielgud was gay. A girl can dream.
Dido. I first heard her in Eminem’s “Stan,” and fell in love with chorus which is Dido from her song “Thank You.”
I don’t even like many of her songs, but I love her voice.
Anthony Warlow. Guh.
Although I am a lesbian, I love deep British male speaking voices. Jarvis Cocker (frontman from Pulp), gives me the shivers when I listen to his speaking parts in songs. As far a singing voices go, Nick Cave (another deep voice), Beth Orton and Neko Case.
Got a friend whose voice melts me every time I hear it - Yep, very much into voices!
Sarah Nixey from Black Box Recorder. She really “does it” for me.
The closest I’ve come is Carolyn Faye Fox, resident punster on NPR’s Says You!
Every week, more radios are tuned to Says You! than any other appliance.
Rupert Everett.
Oh, man.
My stock broker. It’s probably some sort of conversion reaction, since he was also my dad’s stock broker, and I can’t help but think of my dad when I get to talk commodities with this man. He must be in his 60s by now, but he has this sexy radio voice. Sigh. If only he didn’t charge commission.
Kim Deal (The Pixies, Breeders), for some reason. Not a particularly great or angelic voice, but very sexy to me.
Karen Carpenter.
Annie Haslam.
Evelyne Taylor.
The provider rep at one the insurance companies I deal with sounds almost exactly like Felicity Kendal.
I could listen to her talk for hours.
If you’ve played the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, you’ve heard Carth Onasi, with the voice of Raphael Sbarge. Mmm, damn I love that voice. growl
On a more talent-appreciation level, I love the voice talent of Rob Paulsen. He’s done just a ton of work, but probably most people have encountered him as the voices of Yakko Warner and Pinky from the cartoon Animaniacs, Raphael from the TMNT cartoon, or a whole ton of voices on the GI Joe and Transformers cartoons. If you don’t watch cartoons (shame!) he’s also the voice of “Mr. Opportunity” in the latest Honda car ads.
Forgot - for both speaking and singing, David Draiman from the band Disturbed. I could listen to him all day…
Scots accent
so sexy
Good call. I was going to name Sarah, along with Beth Gibbons from Portishead, Neko Case, Shirley Manson from Garbage, and even though she wasn’t terribly attractive, she had the voice of a playful angel: Ella Fitzgerald.
Michael Dorn.