Sarah Vaughan (for her unbelievable range and the amount of soul she puts into her music), Don Van Vliet (for being a versatile blues singer as well as sounding batshit insane), Keiji Haino (for his wonderfully falsetto voice), early Lou Reed (for his ability to convey a wide variety of emotions with a very limited, deadpan voice), Rocky Erickson (because he's Rocky ****ing Erickson), and Wild Man Fischer (just for the hell of it).
While there are many many more, I feel this is an acceptable list for me at the moment.
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