# Hottest people who are also brilliant musicians **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472 "2008-08-10T03:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/81 "2008-08-13T00:12:59Z")
I would agree with Christia Aguilera. She is a very beautiful women and as she evolves from the weird costumes of her early years into the more classic look she has been going with more recently, it becomes more obvious. I don’t really care for her style of music but I think most people would agree she can sing. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/82 "2008-08-13T00:18:27Z")
I think [Aimee Mann](http://www.puremusic.com/assets20/47aimee-mann.jpg) is one of the most beautiful creatures ever to walk the earth. Of course, I also think this about [Twiggy Ramirez](http://web.wireimage.com/images/Thumbnail/716895.jpg), so feel free not to trust my judgement _at all_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/83 "2008-08-13T01:22:04Z")
[QUOTE=Hook] [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MIIlUHBNkEc/hqdefault.jpg "CONCRETE BLONDE - Joey") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIlUHBNkEc) Concrete Blonde with Johnette Napolitano - incredible looks, gorgeous voice! [/QUOTE] Totally agree, although that seems such a weird choice of video to show it. I always thought she looked really frumpy in that clip. Whereas in [Heal It Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEvm4yp2vkY)… _smoking!_ And I’ll second both [Jeff](http://www.calerdoses.blogger.com.br/jeff%20buckley.jpg) [Buckley](http://www.munkyhaus.com/images/icons/JeffBuckley.jpg) and [Sufjan](http://www.twowordheap.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/887474244_243a4a183e_b.jpg) [Stevens](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Sufjan_Stevens_playing_banjo.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/84 "2008-08-13T01:50:15Z")
[Karolina Strassmayer](http://www.beautyinmusic.com/assets/artists_large_pics/karolina_strassmayer_cd.jpg), Austrian jazz saxophonist [Roisín Murphy](http://www.fusedmagazine.com/Assets/Images/Articles/article_full/Roisin01.jpg), Irish art-rocker [Eleanor Friedberger](http://www.timeout.com/newyork/resizeImage/htdocs/export_images/631/631.x600.mr.backstage.furnaces.jpg) of the Fiery Furnaces [Leenya Rideout](http://www.blotter.com/user/leenya/pinkupright.jpg), singer-violinist-guitarist, who also has the swingin’est name ever ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/85 "2008-08-13T02:06:26Z")
A local TV station has an 80’s weekend recently – ahh… took me back to High School and University days… so in the spirit of those (sadly) long ago days, I’d have to nominate: Debbie Harry (singer / songwriter of Blondie fame), seen here singing [Heart of Glass](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUG0GjdoGHE) and [Call Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsmHsIY3QWA). I’d also offer honorable mentions for: Wendy James (singer / songwriter of Transvision Vamp), [I want your love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N8bGHtUGJU), and Laura Branigan, [Gloria](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdVEM5WMDo0) and [Self Control](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U7crNtu3Bw) (live versions). Not a writer perhaps, but a fantastic voice, and I’ll unabashedly admit a major crush on her in the 80’s. (RIP Laura) ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/86 "2008-08-13T02:47:02Z")
[Rickie](http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/images/catalog/detail/RS297-RS.jpg) [Lee](http://rickieleejones.com/photos.htm) [Jones](http://www.sfherald.com/images/rickie_lee.jpg) [Lindsey](http://i31.tinypic.com/29def7p.jpg) [Buckingham](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/380245226_70c9f575b2.jpg?v=0) ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/87 "2008-08-13T03:00:14Z")
[The GoGo’s](http://www.gogos.com/welcome.htm) Well, thirty years ago anyway. They aren’t bad now, and I’m actually interested in what they sound like these days. If they don’t rock loud I’m not interested. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/88 "2008-08-13T03:35:06Z")
I might be stretching the definition of “brilliant” slightly, but [Heather](http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/12/2006/04/Heather_Nova_-_Siren-front.jpg) [Nova](http://www.alwaysontherun.net/heather.jpg) does have some really good songs, and even if you don’t agree with that, you pretty much have to agree that she makes up for it with her holy-crap-I-could-stare-at-her-all-day good looks. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/89 "2008-08-13T03:53:08Z")
We haven’t heard much from [Fiona Apple](http://homepage.mac.com/nbarrett/.Pictures/upcomers/fiona_apple.jpg) lately… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/90 "2008-08-13T03:54:40Z")
[QUOTE=jharvey963] 73 posts and no one has mentioned [Faith Hill](http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebs/faithhill/faith_hill_10.jpg) yet? [/QUOTE] Could you type slower, please? My fly is stuck… ---
**Author:** ![Paragod22510](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@Paragod22510](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paragod22510)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/91 "2008-08-13T04:55:54Z")
Sarah McLachlan is incredibly talented songwriter, singer, and musician. And absolutely beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/92 "2008-08-13T04:59:33Z")
She’s been referred to in passing in this thread but I think it’s about time to mention [Neko Case.](http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Neko-Case-an02.jpg) Also, [Hope Sandoval](http://www.ondarock.it/photo/Sandoval.jpg) of Mazzy Star. And I know Shirley Manson has already been mentioned but I like [this picture.](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/56207185_a55a21f92a.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/93 "2008-08-13T05:01:13Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] [Rickie](http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/images/catalog/detail/RS297-RS.jpg) [Lee](http://rickieleejones.com/photos.htm) [Jones](http://www.sfherald.com/images/rickie_lee.jpg) [/QUOTE] If I had a goddamn time machine, and I could only do _one_ thing with it, I would go back to 1980, and _bang the devil out of Rickie Lee Jones_. I would bang her until my cock fell off. (OK, I’d also buy some stock in Microsoft…) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/94 "2008-08-13T05:08:53Z")
Ya, well only one of us got invited back to her dressing room, bud. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/95 "2008-08-13T05:55:57Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FKfSkFHK1Dc/hqdefault.jpg "The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKfSkFHK1Dc) OK, Kate trumps Tori, I agree (and who wouldn’t watch THAT? 😃 ) And since I couldn’t find a still of Kate in her gold lame’ body suit, here’s a youtube of the video. Alas, it’s kinda blurry- too bad I can’t find the SNL one she did while a very lucky Paul Shaeffer played piano. [/QUOTE] A link will be forthcoming, but in the meantime, how about [“December Will Be Magic Again”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfD7FzcjVyQ&feature=related), where she’s doing a sexy dance in her pajamas while sitting in a chair? To my mind, Kate has the uncanny ability of being dead sexy while fully dressed, expecially when the lyrics are sexy. For instance, I think [“The Sensual World”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJc64xncBt4) is drop dead sexy, with lyrics inspired by Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses (the James Joyce estate refused her permission to directly quote key passages so she had to improvise). When you realize what she’s singing about, the song just drips sex, which makes the video even sexier, even though she’s wearing a heavy Victorian dress. I mean, come on, “Going deep south, going down…mmmm, yes” “And then he whispered would I? Mmmmm, yes” “…he loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts, he’d rescue it. Mmmmmm yes. And his spark took life in my hand…”! His WHAT did WHAT WHERE? Yowsa! When she takes off her hat later in the video and lets her hair loose, it mimics the effect the sight of an ankle used to have on men in the olden days. I mean, it would seem to me. (Useless trivia: the actor Guy Pearce is a HUGE Kate Bush fan and bought that dress at a charity auction for his wife) Another fully dressed sexy video is [“Eat The Music”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJbBd1QkZEk&feature=related). Again she’s wearing a long-sleeved, long dress but the lyrics and her voice ooooze sex. **MrDibble** , why have a still when you can have the actual video? [Babooshka](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz07Hf5htfY) Oh, **FriarTed** , here you go. Lucky piano, eh? Live on the Day After Friday, [“The Man With The Child In His Eyes”](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7655705829760934569) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/96 "2008-08-13T06:05:04Z")
Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys is an unutterably brilliant artist. When he was younger he was insanely sexy (viz. the It’s a Sin video) and even now he scratches my ‘daddy’ itch while still producing impossibly gorgeous songs. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/97 "2008-08-13T06:19:54Z")
[QUOTE=rikc] Maybe Todd Rundgren’s face has a lot of “character” to you, but you will not find much support out there. [/QUOTE] But there’s always someone out there, right? I think he can be very hot, depending on the picture. (ok, maybe not to you) [Exhibit A](http://janetdcohen.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/25/toddrundgren2007.jpg) [Exhibit B](http://www.concertshots.com/Jan%2003%20Images/cs-ToddRundgren8-Atlanta13103.JPG) [C](http://the-adventurers-club.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/todd_rundgren.jpg), [D](http://content.clearchannel.com/Photos/musicians/todd_rundgren_albumcover.jpg), [E](http://trconnection.com/pictures/articles/ToddRundgren-EdinburghEveNe.jpg), [F](http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/009/583/9583811.jpg), [G](http://www.veleno.net/ToddRcovr.jpg)…oh hell, there are a lot more but they’re too damn small. So many great photos are something like 95x95 or whatever. So, he’s a “type” with the elongated face, and he can in some pictures look very goofy and wear goofy clothes, but oftentimes I think he’s dreamy, and he definitely fits the “brilliant” part of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/98 "2008-08-13T06:41:07Z")
I think [Rodrigo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF8nhSj0WzM&feature=related) is pretty hot. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/99 "2008-08-13T06:47:56Z")
[Tomoko Kawase](http://wiki.theppn.org/Kawase_Tomoko)…a beautiful woman, and a great singer and lyricist. (The top picture on that article doesn’t do her justice…bad angle, and black hair doesn’t suit her. But the other shots look good.) ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/100 "2008-08-13T09:47:34Z")
I’ve always had my own little crush on that cutie violinist [Hillary](http://www.alysstephenscenterupdates.org/images/images/images/hillary-Hahn.gif) [Hahn](http://blog.syracuse.com/video/2008/05/050608_Hahn.jpg) . 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472.md?page=6)