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Best singer in USA for what?

Opera, rap, rock, country, etc. Male, female, group?





Precisely.

While I think we can legitimately dissociate 'classical' forms of music (opera...) from more contemporary forms, that still leaves a range of genres so wide that no one can really excel across the board.

To compare say Daryl Hall as a pop-soul singer with say Keith Whitley – essentially a country singer – is ultimately asking people to say which of these two broad categories they prefer.

It may be more reasonable to split this thread into sub-threads
(metal, swing, blues, electro-pop…) – and subsititue “who is your favourite…” for “who is the best….” unless we can come up with unambiguous, accepted, measurable and quantifiable citeria against which we are defining “best”.

Even then, we should specify if we are including only living singers (which would, of course, rule out Whitley)

Having said all of the above, Eastside Eddie has a point….

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