# Singers who sound like... other singers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059 "2012-01-29T04:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059/41 "2012-01-31T20:54:34Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > David Sylvian has always sounded like a slightly slowed-down Bryan Ferry. Not on the first Japan album ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8E2oUYcS10&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8E2oUYcS10&feature=related)). The Ferry-isms came later. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059/42 "2012-02-01T00:20:52Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Sometimes Harry Connick Jr. sounds like a sloppy Frank Sinatra. I sometimes have problems telling Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett apart. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059/43 "2012-02-01T08:35:09Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > When I first heard “Never Gonna Give You Up”, I thought it was by [Teddy Pendergrass](http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/7b9028d16fedbd7620de50ace680916d/102058.jpg). Er, no, it was by [Rick Astley](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/Rickastleyposter.jpg/220px-Rickastleyposter.jpg) who looks _nothing_ like Teddy. 😃 Nice try. I’m not clicking that link.😉 Anyway: [David Coverdale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52r1Jix62-4) [Robert Plant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSugn0dB4c) In a similar vein: [David Lee Roth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM) [Sammy Haggar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmfrPrN1L_s) Some more channeling: [David Byrne](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU) [Adrian Belew](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQhLcKyGs8) And some more King Crimson: [Greg Lake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcmGllrK2t0) [Boz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQKp5FVslG0) [Gordon Haskell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2d6Q-XY1YI) [John Wetton](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHNVsoBtpdA) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059/44 "2012-02-01T11:51:42Z")
[Gotye](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXFJOXvL_A) sounds like both Sting and Peter Gabriel. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059/45 "2012-02-01T20:10:07Z")
[Grouplove](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddd70PMxTE&ob=av2e) could easily be mistaken for [Modest Mouse](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPhnOKmhbBw&ob=av2e). It’s not just the singers, but they’re very similar. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059/46 "2012-02-01T20:17:04Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > Nice try. I’m not clicking that link.😉 It’s just a couple of .jpgs on Wiki. I’m not the rick-rollin’ type. 😉 Hmm… don’t know what happened to the Pendergrass link. I swear it worked when I posted that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-sound-like-other-singers/611059.md?page=2)