Singing is an interesting thing There's people who are great singers that don't have good sounding voices and people who have great voices but aren't technically good singers Now there are a few singers that have good voices *and* are good technical singers--and these are the people that there is general agreement on You make a list of these people as "great singers" and you generally don't get much argument Marvin Gaye Elvis Paul McCartney David Ruffin of the Temptations Kate Bush Sinatra That's a few of them Anyone that tries to tell you that Marvin Gaye couldn't sing doesn't know anything about singing