Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves — Page 5

Carol Channing
Angela Lansbury
Mary Martin
Bebe Neuwirth
Ann Reinking
Chita Rivera
Gwen Verdon

^Great performers, bad singers

Updated On: 8/25/06 at 05:32 PM

I'm really stunned so many people don't like Audra.

I think a lot of the performers mentioned thus far are among those performers that "you just have to see". For example, I could NEVER. EVER. listen to the Hello, Dolly! OBC because of Carol Channing, then I saw her on tour and I can't stop listening to her. Performers with a great "uniqueness" to their voice, such as Merman, Channing, LuPone, Patinkin, and Liza I think don't always transfer well to record - part of their magic is their skill as a performer, rather than just as sheer singers. (note: I love all of those I mentioned above - there are very few people I don't like, actually, as whom I mentioned before.)

Liza Minelli

Marisa Jaret Winokur

I don't know if you would consider her respected, but that voice-- gosh.

Bernadette Peters
Ethel Merman
Judy Garland
Hugh Jackman
Liza Minelli
Carol Channing
Bebe Neuwirth
Ann Reinking
Chita Rivera
Mandy Patinkin

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