Frank Sinatra and Karen Carpenter.

Nat King Cole….

Best singer in what context, vocal range might be Annie Lennox or Freddy Mercury. Could be Pavarotti. Best singer songwriter might be a better way to consider it?

dio

Bobby Hatfield

As a man who has been singing as a profession for over 70 years, In my opinion that would be Lara Fabian, a Canadian/Belgian lady who speaks 14 languages, and sings in 20. Here is one of her best performances that she sings in French, but has English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVvlmpo5g9k

Ooh there's one to cause debate !

Well, i guess it rather depends on how you define 'best'.

Ive no doubt a little research would tell you whose concerts outsold anybody else's; which artist sold the most records/8-tracks/Albums/Cassettes/C:D's/...whatever medium is sold these days, but that only means what was popular at that exact time.

If it comes down to a specific artist i suspect you'll get everyone from Maria Callas to Aretha Franklin.
From Frank Sinatra to Liam Gallagher.

Personally I'd nominate somebody like William 'Smokey' Robinson.
A man whose professional career began in the late 50's; was made a 'Superstar' by Berry Gordy at Motown when he put him with The Miracles; and managed to keep himself musically busy up until the early noughties.

Pavarati

William Hung

Okay, okay, seriously, I saw where some magazine recently said Mick Jagger.

I might also suggest Tom Jones. They formed a new church around the belief that his voice was somehow divine or angelic.

Ooooooohhh that’s really tough to answer. I’m thinking in terms of how many people love the music and voice, I’d go for Freddie Mercury.

there are many ways to look at it. But, for me, it's Karen Carpenter. She had an amazing tone and an incredible amount of talent.

Ronnie James Dio.

My fav voice atm is Teddy Swims

Linda Ronstadt

watch em say Taylor Swift 🤣🤣🤣🤣

freddy mercury

Tiny Tim.. hands down

Pavarotti

Well this is hard because everyone has their favorites and may not be the same for others .

Whitney Houston. Most range, best and most beautiful voice.

Sinead O'Connor had a beautiful singing voice.

Hmmn

Anne Wilson maybe

Miljenko Matijevic

Ronnie James Dio or Neil diamond

Ernesto de la Cruz

Glenn Danzig.😄

Beth Hart.

Brel

weird al yankovic

Believe it or not, the dancer Fred Astaire was the choice of many top songwriters to sing their songs.

Hard to answer. I guess Frank Sinatra gets my vote.

Why only one?

David Bowie and no one else comes anywhere as close to being as brilliant David was