Just a representation of many fine singers from the present and past. I have asterisked my favorites.
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Marian Anderson
Whitney Houston
Diana Ross *
Michael Jackson
Prince
Ray Charles *
Charley Pride
Stevie Wonder *
James Brown
Smokey Robinson
Tina Turner
Billie Holliday
Sarah Vaughan *
Otis Redding
Louis Armstrong *
Little Richard
Chuck Berry *
Nat ‘King’ Cole *
Sam Cooke *
Lionel Richie
Bob Marley
Jimi Hendrix
Dionne Warwick *