Beautiful Male/Female singing voices

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Death Metal singers especially the lead singer for Arch Enemy.

if ross mitchell could sing he'd have a wonderful singing voice.

Male
Jared Leto
Alex Clare
Chester Bennington
Jon Foreman


Female
Amy Lee
Sia
Adele
Lacey Sturm

and not to sound concieted, but me.

mary hopkin ("those were the days, my friend")
dusty springfield

Male:
Ville Valo (HIM)
Tomas Kalnocky (Streetlight Manifesto)
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Eugene Hutz (Gogol Bordello)
Al Barr (Dropkick Murphys)
Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)
Freddy Mercury (Queen)
Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria)
Dexter Holland (The Offspring)
Tobias Sammet (Edguy/Advantasia)
Huey Lewis (And the News)
Shimon Moore (Sick Puppies)
Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In)
Morrissey (The Smiths)
Robert Smith (The Cure)
Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz)

Female:
Tarja Turunen (Nightwish)
Adele
Hatsune Miku (Yeah, really.)
Aki Toyosaki
Aya Hirano
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA)
Otep Shamaya (OTEP)

As far as female artists go, check out Celtic Women. Just look for them on youtube and they sing like angels

If I can add...Arai Akino.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-wj84UlzM[/youtube]

OH! Ana Gabriel, too.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkCTDG8nZDM[/youtube]

Male:
Sami Yusuf
The Maccabeats (I know that's more than one person, sorry)
Jose Carreras

Female:
Maria Callas
Ofra Haza
Sarah McLachlan

It's for that reason, actually, that "Darkness" easily falls into my top five favorite Disturbed songs. It's such a huge divergence from anything they had done up to that point, and Draiman's vocal performance on that song is just... mindblowing.

On that note, another vocalist whose versatility really amazes me is Mariusz Duda of Riverside and Lunatic Soul. Some of Riverside's music is quite heavy, and Duda's occasionally snarling vocals suit that sort of music rather well. But from listening to Riverside's softer stuff, as well as Lunatic Soul, it's really apparent that Duda can handle melodic singing rather adroitly.

Most of the others I would say (Steven Wilson, Maynard James Keenan, Thom Yorke, Freddie Mercury, Layne Staley, Cristina Scabbia, Matthew Bellamy, Chris Cornell, Robin Pecknold) have already been mentioned. There are, however, a few others I'd add.

Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) - I'm really surprised he hasn't shown up on this thread elsewhere.
Jon Anderson (Yes) - I dare you to listen to "Close to the Edge" and tell me otherwise.
Christopher Hall (formerly of Stabbing Westward)
Daniel Tompkins (formerly of TesseracT) - It's a shame that he left the band after one album. TesseracT seems to have difficulty hanging on to vocalists. I hope they keep the more melodic approach to vocals-- it's what really sets them apart from bands like Meshuggah and Periphery, and one of the reasons they attracted me in the first place.
Lajon Witherspoon (Sevendust) - Particularly on softer songs like "Angel's Son" and "Follow".
Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)

Also, I have to mention Vincent Cavanagh and Lee Douglas (Anathema) as being a great male/female ensemble.

Disagreed.

Male
Tom Waits
Nick Drake
Jónsi
Andrew Bird
Kristian Matsson
Thijs Kuijken

Female
Esperanza Spalding
St. Vincent
Björk
Lisa Hannigan
Vashti Bunyan

For me at least! My top three of that list are Vashti Bunyan, Jónsi and Tom Waits.

Here is my sample

Male
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Dean Martin
Frank Sinatra
John Lennon (The Beatles)
Roy Orbison
Elvis Presley
Luciano Pavarotti (Opera)
Rhydian Roberts (Classical baritone)
David Bowie
Leslie Lemke
Jonathan Antonie

Female
Ella Fitzgerald
Yuma Sumac
Whitney Houston

Allan Jones

If you click on the link to hear, you will have to listen to Kitty Carlisle for the first couple of minutes, but shes not too bad either. LINK

Hard to think of a female with a voice as beautiful as Allan Jones, thought there are many I like.

Female:
Pat Benatar
Laura Branigan
Chrissy Hynde (The Pretenders)
Karen Carpenter
Olivia Newton-John

Male:
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Dennis DeYoung (Styx)
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Christopher Cross
Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon)
Elton John

Female:
Beth Hart

Male:
Freddie Mercury

if Christopher Plummer could sing, he'd have a great singing voice.