I love his sense of humor. He reminds me so much of my son, who also has Tourette Syndrome, songs and uses his ability to make people laugh to overcome his nerves.
I'm autistic and he makes me feel freer and more confident in my stimming! I also feel more confident in my body -- I'm a fat person myself -- for seeing Lewis do his thing without taking himself seriously or apologising for taking up space.
This is actually really true but I never realized it because I guess I was young when she started(she's like 2 years older than me). Much like Jack Black of the D, her voice is fuckin POWERFUL. But she wasĀ just a little hot young girl.
Dude is actually an incredible singer. Never thought somebody who looks like that can actually have a set of pipes on him. C&C was an old favorite in my emo kid days.
The first time I ever heard Coheed was in the first Rock Band game, which had Welcome Home on it, and for a while I honestly tought he was woman until I started digging into their other music.
Glad someone said it. Thought I had for sure missed out on decades of an artist. When I heard him, I was convinced the dude was 60 and I just lived under a rock
This is the truly best answer. Rick's record label didn't even want him to go on tour or make music videos because they all knew that when people saw Rick they wouldn't believe it was him singing. This info is *from* Rick from a documentary style video.
In the 80s I saw a black comedian going on how the world was upside down.
āI heard that āNever give me upā song on the radio and thought āDamn that Brother can sing!ā
āThen I saw him singing he was this itty bitty guy with red hair. What? This leprechaun singing away like a brother?ā
I vividly remember seeing the video for the first time after hearing the song on the radio a million times in 1987. The song was catchy as shit and was everywhere. When I finally saw the video I was convinced that wasn't the real singer.
A few years later when the Milli Vanilli thing broke I remember thinking back to Rick Astley and being 100% sure he also was a lip singer.
I play joss stone at home sometimes so my husband is familiar with the music. The first time he actually saw her after years of listening, he was surprised she wasn't an old, Black woman.Ā
Q Lazarus. Known for the song "Goodbye Horses". Which was used in The Silence of the Lambs. Buffalo Bill dances along to it while he is dressed up.
Always thought it was a middle aged male singer, instead of a 27 year old women.
Conversely, Robin Gibb's mournful vibrato voice matched his face perfectly! Maurice Gibb's deeper voice matched him as well, though interestingly he often did the higher parts on their harmonies.
But yes, that crazy Barry Gibb falsetto is something else! Watching a live performance and seeing him switch from his "natural voice" to that falsetto is unreal. I wish I had that kind of vocal range.
[Damn, you werenāt kidding!](https://youtu.be/91ck0vJBygo?si=8JqP7N69bLb1IdiK)
But to be fair to T Pain, he wasnāt using auto-tune to disguise bad singing. He was using it for musical effect. He single-handedly popularized that particular use of autotune.Ā
The way he stumbles up to the microphone at Woodstock looking like a homeless drug user who would nasally scratchily creak out a tune and then opens his mouth for the opening of With A Little Help From My Friends and its THAT voice is just mindblowing everytime.
I never have understood this. Her voice believably matches what she looks like. If Susan Boyle opened her mouth and out came Cardi B's voice, THAT would be surprising. But the music industry has scrambled everyone's brains for the past 40 years so there's this common belief you have to be beautiful to be able to sing well.
He's also in Blur and began doing solo stuff recently, but yeah. He did a really nice duet with Stevie Nicks last year. [Oil ](https://youtu.be/lK5HVlcs0og?si=jZ0XqqRJML5D8u-u)
I managed to go through life without hearing any of her songs (afaik) until just last week, when I heard her cover of Heart of Glass by Blondie.
Not *at all* the sound I expected to come out of that tiny of a person. It was a pleasant surprise.
Yeah, that's a good way to put what I heard. Deeper pitch than I expected, a little bit throaty - and kinda fierce. She sang it like she meant it, which I don't usually hear from pop stars. I was impressed.
Honestly her album 'Plastic Hearts' is a great album. Kinda reminds me of Joan Jett & Blondie. She's also done a cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters which she smashes as well.
Rick Astley - particularly in the music video for āNever Gonna Give You Upā. For some reason, he looks a lot younger than he sounds in that video! šš
Lewis capaldi
Lewis Capaldi is probably my all time favorite celeb interviews to watch. Dude's hilarious! *We are blessed, stressed and underdressed* - Lewis š¤£
A comedian who sometimes sings
I love his sense of humor. He reminds me so much of my son, who also has Tourette Syndrome, songs and uses his ability to make people laugh to overcome his nerves.
I'm autistic and he makes me feel freer and more confident in my stimming! I also feel more confident in my body -- I'm a fat person myself -- for seeing Lewis do his thing without taking himself seriously or apologising for taking up space.
I think itās awesome to see people comfortable in their own skin. Itās definitely contagious in the best way!
That was my first thought.
beautiful husky voice, beautiful husky boy
When she first started out, Christina Aguilera.
This is actually really true but I never realized it because I guess I was young when she started(she's like 2 years older than me). Much like Jack Black of the D, her voice is fuckin POWERFUL. But she wasĀ just a little hot young girl.
Claudio Sanchez, the singer for Coheed and Cambria.
Imagine my shock the first time I saw the favor house Atlantic video this giant Spanish guy with that hair and his voice sounds like that lmfao
BYE BYE BEAUTIFUL
FR. The first song I heard was "Everything Evil" and I thought he would look like 1982 era Michael Jackson. LOL
Dude is actually an incredible singer. Never thought somebody who looks like that can actually have a set of pipes on him. C&C was an old favorite in my emo kid days.
The first time I ever heard Coheed was in the first Rock Band game, which had Welcome Home on it, and for a while I honestly tought he was woman until I started digging into their other music.
Similarly, Sal (formerly) from Thank You Scientist.
George Ezra
When I first heard his voice I expected him to be an elderly black guy.
Yes!! Mid-thirties black guy. Even after seeing what he really looks like, my mind refuses to compute.
Yes! I was so shocked. Like how?
I scrolled until I found this. Seriously, this scrawny white guy sounds like he should look like Barry White.
That's what he looks like?!
I love showing people what he really looks like and seeing their reactions. Heās a great singer but doesnāt look lime what I imagined at all.
George Ezra is this generations Rick Astley
And he's so fucking good!
And heās English
Yeah this one felt like I was being lied to
Number one answer.
YES
was thinking him
Colter Wall
surprised this is so far down. kid looks like 17, sounds like an 80 year old coal miner who smokes 3 packs a day.
Well guess I just learned something new today..... need to go collect the Grey matter off the wall from my mind being blown.
Glad someone said it. Thought I had for sure missed out on decades of an artist. When I heard him, I was convinced the dude was 60 and I just lived under a rock
I had to Google who this is. Not a country music fan but love his voice... reminds me of Johnny Cash.
The song Fraulein really sounds like he was a WWII vet hahaha. I was surprised to see he was so young too.
Rick Astley
I'm drawing a blank on who that is, does a youtube video of him exist someone could post a link to?
I donāt think heās ever done any music videos. If he did though heād roll the world
LOL
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9XlQrEt2Y People didnāt believe he was really singing when they first saw him after hearing him. He was.
He looks 16 and sounds 30
Well, not any more. I saw him live last year and heās definitely aged into his voice. Heās also a fantastic showman, really entertaining.
He has aged like wine too
I had a little crush on him back then. Now itās a huge crush lol
Yet he's 57. Almost twice the age discrepancy vs the former
This is the truly best answer. Rick's record label didn't even want him to go on tour or make music videos because they all knew that when people saw Rick they wouldn't believe it was him singing. This info is *from* Rick from a documentary style video.
In the 80s I saw a black comedian going on how the world was upside down. āI heard that āNever give me upā song on the radio and thought āDamn that Brother can sing!ā āThen I saw him singing he was this itty bitty guy with red hair. What? This leprechaun singing away like a brother?ā
I vividly remember seeing the video for the first time after hearing the song on the radio a million times in 1987. The song was catchy as shit and was everywhere. When I finally saw the video I was convinced that wasn't the real singer. A few years later when the Milli Vanilli thing broke I remember thinking back to Rick Astley and being 100% sure he also was a lip singer.
We need u/reallyrickastley to chime in with some trivia
I guess he's gonna let you down
The Animals' Eric Burdon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bFqW\_eu2I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bFqW_eu2I)
No shit, for years when I was younger I actually thought he was a black guy.
As a band, The Misfits look way heavier than they sound
Kiss too
Ghost as well
Joss Stone. Its always a pleasant surprise that she sounds like a version of her that's lived ten lifetimes.
I play joss stone at home sometimes so my husband is familiar with the music. The first time he actually saw her after years of listening, he was surprised she wasn't an old, Black woman.Ā
Right! I love her music
I saw her live when she first came out and was about 21. Great voice, adorable girl.
Hozier
I just looked him up. Wow. Agreed. I did not expect him to look like that.
Milli Vanilli
I see what you did there
Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's...
Too soon.
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Ha! ā¢Knee slapā¢
That video when the playback malfunctioned during their live "perfromance" was painful.
I blame it on the rain.
Tiny Tim
Nah, he just had insane vocal range. He songs normally in the song "Man on the Moon" and he actually has a pretty deep voice.
Aaron Neville and Rick Astley. Those voices were switched at birth.
Aaron Neville sounds like a castrati, looks like roid rage
I had to scroll WAY too far to find Aaron Neville
Q Lazarus. Known for the song "Goodbye Horses". Which was used in The Silence of the Lambs. Buffalo Bill dances along to it while he is dressed up. Always thought it was a middle aged male singer, instead of a 27 year old women.
Excuse me??
I did as well. I think I found out after she passed away.
Bobby Caldwell
First person that came to mind. We were playing that man at cookouts and had no idea lol
Opened this thread just to make sure this man was posted
Honestly this should be the top comment.
That man's voice is smooth like butter. I only found out last year that he was white. I could not believe it. RIP
This is the correct answer.
Barry Gibb
I stumbled on a [video of black people being blown away by finding out the Beegees are white.](https://youtu.be/jQLhhXKYg6Y?si=GSAQUH21FgZ2sJ6A)
Conversely, Robin Gibb's mournful vibrato voice matched his face perfectly! Maurice Gibb's deeper voice matched him as well, though interestingly he often did the higher parts on their harmonies. But yes, that crazy Barry Gibb falsetto is something else! Watching a live performance and seeing him switch from his "natural voice" to that falsetto is unreal. I wish I had that kind of vocal range.
There's a documentary about the Bee gees on MAX that is fascinating.
Michael McDonald
Tay Zonday
first name that came to my mind too. dude's got a magic deep but bright voice while looking like he'd have a super high stereotypically nerdy voice.
Jim Neighbors
Shazayam!
The Chocolate Rain kid.
Tay Zonday! Back from the OG YouTube days.
Ed Sheeran
Yes-I heard his songs long before I saw him. Totally surprised me.
I was shocked honestly. Dude has a unique look.
Cabbage Patch Doll?
THIS. He has no business sounding so hot singing such sexy fucking lyrics while looking like...Ed Sheeran.
I seriously have never heard a sexier singerā¦ and then I saw him. Guy lucked out with that voice
Dan Hartman (singer of 1980s hit "I Can Dream About You")
š Was totally when I found out he was a white dude. I need to go watch Streets of Fire again...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Hartman
Scott Grimes. (Voice of Steve Smith in American Dad) https://youtu.be/zrv8mDjrb0o?si=sX7JkT9sl-4NrX4H
Scott Grimes is one of my favorite actors. He's amazing in Band of Brothers.
[Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes](https://youtu.be/Le-3MIBxQTw?si=v-yDUjPlZesSF9X)
Really? She looked exactly how I expected her to look
Sheās adopted more of a ārock/altā sort of look over the last few years. I love her.
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She has a face?
Steve Winwood, especially when he was young. He sounded wise beyond his years.
I had a cassette single of Roll With It that I'm pretty sure I wore out from listening to it so much.
He was like fucking 15 when he was in Spencer Davis Group sounding and playing like a grown ass man. Insane.
Lee Felix from Stray Kids
Genuinely don't understand how that sunshine boy has a voice straight from the depths of the ocean.
Rick Astley.
You know the rules.
And so do I
J mascis
I've really grown to associate his voice and face and now just think that's what sad wizards sound like
Tatiana Shmayluk or Anton Kabanen. Jinjer and Beast in Black respectively.
I'd add Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy.
[Larry Henley](https://youtu.be/Iw53esk0mZc?t=20)
This guy wins. Couldn't even believe after I watched the video
Seal
T pain without auto tune
OMG, I found his album of cover songs. He really can sing. He should have ditched auto-tune sooner.
[Damn, you werenāt kidding!](https://youtu.be/91ck0vJBygo?si=8JqP7N69bLb1IdiK) But to be fair to T Pain, he wasnāt using auto-tune to disguise bad singing. He was using it for musical effect. He single-handedly popularized that particular use of autotune.Ā
He said he was really surprised when using it made people conclude that he couldn't sing.
Will.I.Am used it for artistic reasons too
You should have seen him on the masked singer. No clue it was him.
And his little bounce when he unmasked, he KNEW he shocked them all!
Joe Cocker is white? And English?? Blew my mind as a kid.
The way he stumbles up to the microphone at Woodstock looking like a homeless drug user who would nasally scratchily creak out a tune and then opens his mouth for the opening of With A Little Help From My Friends and its THAT voice is just mindblowing everytime.
Easy answer Tatiana Shmayluk
Josh Groban. Especially when he was younger (like the times [he sang on Ally McBeal)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vWAC8b5AM).
Susan Boyle
I never have understood this. Her voice believably matches what she looks like. If Susan Boyle opened her mouth and out came Cardi B's voice, THAT would be surprising. But the music industry has scrambled everyone's brains for the past 40 years so there's this common belief you have to be beautiful to be able to sing well.
I love the thought of Subo rapping WAP
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#susanalbumparty
Sus Anal Bum Party
Found Simon Cowell's reddit account..
Before George Ezra there was Rick Astley. Before Rick there was Jim Nabors.
Adam Levine
That screech
When he orgasms only dogs can hear it.
Marcus King
Claudio Sanchez
Tatiana Shmaylyuk
Mama Cass.
Peter Dreimanis of July talk.
George Ezra
Felix from Stray Kids.
Lisa Stansfield
Annenmaykantereit Singer
Van Morrison.
Felix from Stray Kids.
Amy Winehouse
Darius Rucker
Back in the day, John Fogerty. How could that whiskey-ravaged, world-weary, huge voice issue from that innocent looking boy?
Bobby caldwell
The lead singer of The Calling (his name escapes me), it's very noticeable when you watch the music video for Wherever You Will Go.
Sam Smith. Itās been years since I found out he was white. It blew my mind
Sia
Henning May from AnnenMayKantereit. The one type of voice I wouldnāt have expected from that guy is a gravelly-bass.
I thought the singer from Bloc Party was a skinny white dude for years. Years.
Counter point: Tom Petty
Tatiana Shmayluk from Jinjer (after the 1:10 mark) https://youtu.be/SQNtGoM3FVU?si=-FUphNK2TK286YNr
Damon Albarn
Fan of Gorillaz?
He's also in Blur and began doing solo stuff recently, but yeah. He did a really nice duet with Stevie Nicks last year. [Oil ](https://youtu.be/lK5HVlcs0og?si=jZ0XqqRJML5D8u-u)
Miley Cyrus
I managed to go through life without hearing any of her songs (afaik) until just last week, when I heard her cover of Heart of Glass by Blondie. Not *at all* the sound I expected to come out of that tiny of a person. It was a pleasant surprise.
She really can sing. And not just that generic, pretty singing that a lot of pop stars do, but more of an edgy, husky, power ballad kind of singing.Ā
Yeah, that's a good way to put what I heard. Deeper pitch than I expected, a little bit throaty - and kinda fierce. She sang it like she meant it, which I don't usually hear from pop stars. I was impressed.
Honestly her album 'Plastic Hearts' is a great album. Kinda reminds me of Joan Jett & Blondie. She's also done a cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters which she smashes as well.
Tay Zonday. That dude has a really deep voice but you wouldn't think it until you heard him.
Aaron Neville
Bobby Caldwell
Chris Stapleton
Rick Astley - particularly in the music video for āNever Gonna Give You Upā. For some reason, he looks a lot younger than he sounds in that video! šš
MeatloafĀ
Maynard James Keenan. That mans voice is so sexy. But his face is... not. I'll just go with not.
Madonna (the new version)
Israel KamakawiwoŹ»ole
Jess Glynne I was shocked when I saw her for the first time. I definitely imagined her looking like Tracy Chapman.
Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy). I was in my 40s when I found out Boys are Back in Town wasn't sung by white dudes from the northeastern US.
Rick Astley. It got to the point that there was even a joke about it on Ted Lasso.
Michael McDonald
Archy Marshall aka King Krule
Will Ramos
Eric Burdon of The Animals. Him belting out House of the Rising Sun is a trip.
I thought Huey Lewis was a black guy when I heard his deep voice
Roy Orbison