Top Ten Modern Musicians That Sound Like Classic Musicians
Credit goes to LizardKing99 for her collaboration with me on this list!Kevin didn't actually realize how much he sounded like John Lennon until one of John's sons (I believe it was Sean) told him.
Tame Impala's frontman sounds so like Lennon it's unbelievable.
A trance singer who sounds like a classic soul singer. Her voice is just smooth, powerful and mesmerising.
This singer seems interesting. I think I'll look her up sometime.
Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2003. Its members and founders are Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist. They remind me of the Beach Boys circa 1967.
This guy should be at #1, trust me - he sounds exactly like Freddie Mercury and as a bonus - he looks like Freddie! I don't exaggerate.
Find on YouTube and be convinced: Queen Extravaganza on American Idol - Somebody to Love (HD)
Wouter Andre "Wally" De Backer, better known as Gotye, is an Australian-Belgian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. The name "Gotye" is a pronunciation respelling of "Gauthier", the French cognate of Gotye's given Dutch name "Wouter".
Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter, and musician from Lodi, New Jersey. He is the founder of the bands Misfits, Samhain and Danzig. He owns the Evilive record label as well as Verotik, an adult-oriented comic book publishing company. Sounds like a heavier and darker version of Jim Morrison.
Try: Danzig - Mother, How the Gods Kill, She Rides.
Tobias Sammet is a German metal musician, best known as the vocalist and primary songwriter of the power metal band Edguy, as well as the founder, main singer and bassist of the metal opera Avantasia. Sounds like Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden.
Proof:
Edguy - Nailed to The Wheel, Mystreria.
Michael Schøn Poulsen is a Danish vocalist and guitarist. He is currently the singer and main songwriter of the band Volbeat. Sounds like James Hetfield of Metallica.
Volbeat - Our Loved Ones
Andrew James Stockdale is an Australian rock musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist and only mainstay member of the rock band Wolfmother, which formed in 2000. In 2007, alongside his Wolfmother bandmates, he won 'Songwriter of the Year' at the APRA Awards.
Ralf Scheepers is the vocalist for German heavy metal band Primal Fear. He has a relatively high-pitched tenor-esque singing voice and sometimes uses a shriek reminiscent of Judas Priest's Rob Halford, although it is his baritone lows which give him a near four-octave range in the modal register. Sounds like Rob Halford from Judas Priest.
Primal Fear - Strike, Metal Gods (Judas Priest cover).
Stealers Wheel IS an old band.
They ARE an old band.
Jørn Lande is a Norwegian metal and hard rock singer known for his solo career as Jorn, and providing vocals for Avantasia, Masterplan, Ark, Beyond Twilight, Millenium, Allen/Lande, Mundanus Imperium, Vagabond, The Snakes, Ayreon. Sounds like:
1) David Coverdale of Deep Purple, Whitesnake
Check out these covers: Jorn - Stormbringer, Fool For Your Loving, Burn
2) Ian Gillan of Deep Purple
Jorn - Perfect Strangers (the best cover ever).
3) Dio
Jorn - Egypt (The Chains Are On).
Hansi Kürsch, born Hans Jürgen Kürsch, is the lead singer, lyricist, co-composer and bassist for German power metal band Blind Guardian . Heavily influenced by Freddie Mercury, he creates a huge choir effect by overdubbing his own voice multiple times in complex, overlapping vocal harmonies. He records each vocal track individually because harmonizers and "perfect pitch" programs don't work with his voice due to distortion and the natural double layer effects his vocal cords have .His early technique made use of a more aggressive and harsher, "screaming" technique . ...read more.
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, known professionally as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. Of course, he sounds like his father - Julio Iglesias.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter and bandleader who was born on June 30th, 1963, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was known for his neoclassical metal playing style back in the 1980s. He sounds like a modern version of many classical musicians - Mozart, Bach, Paganini, etc. He's a guitar virtuoso and plays neo-classical metal.
Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star, Far Beyond The Sun, Trilogy Suite Op.5, Amadeus Quattro Valvole
One of the best unfortunately very very underrated
Sounds like Led Zeppelin.
Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho is an American classical crossover singer who gained wide recognition at an early age. Since 2009, she has issued an EP and eight albums, including a platinum and gold album, and three Billboard 200 top 10 debuts. Evancho's latest album 'The Debut', was her eighth consecutive release to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart.
In 2017, Evancho performed the U.S. national anthem at the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump and became the youngest person ever to perform a concert series at Café Carlyle. Sounds like Mozart, with vocals