Dude Sounds Like A Lady

thomas & samson

Or Horace Andy.

I only just realized recently after hearing it at least 100 times that the Robin McNamara who sang "Lay a Little Lovin' on Me" was a dude.

It kinda goes both ways in Zep's "Battle of Evermore"--half the time I can't tell if it's Robert Plant or Sandy Denny singing.

Grazie to RW for the fact-check on "Games People Play." But weirdly, the guy with the handlebar mustache sings the female part in this Soul Train clip:

WHOA!

That's pretty ridiculous, but I'm pretty sure that like American Bandstand, performers lip-synched to the single on Soul Train.

Or Horace Andy.

I had Horace Andy on one time and my mum came in and said "who's this woman you're listening to?" She also thought Nina Simone was a man once.

When I was a kid, I thought "Hello it's Me" was sung by a woman.

The bassist for the Eagles.

Vincent Gallo
Bernard Butler

oh,and Russell Tompkins from the Stylistics...

what scary ass chick looks like VINCENT GALLO?

Death Vessel guy Joel Thibodeau is pretty uncanny.

Add britpop singer of your choice in here.

Death Vessel guy Joel Thibodeau is pretty uncanny.

Yar. I went to a Books concert where Death Vessel was the opening band and I spent the whole opening song trying to decipher if it was a guy or a girl, both for the voice and the androgynous look.

I had the opposite problem with "Pump up the Jam". I always thought it was a dude.

The first time I heard Material Issue was "Kim the Waitress," which I could've sworn was sung by a woman with a husky voice (like Carla Bozulich), and I thought it was a lesbian-crush song.

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The first time I heard "Border Song" on the radio when Elton's first record came out I was pretty sure "Elton" was just an unusual name for a woman.

I had the opposite problem with "Pump up the Jam". I always thought it was a dude.

There are a few as well. Thao Nguyen per example, i kept thinking it was a dude, I had to go to youtube to see the voice actually coming out of her to make sure it was a girl. Not that she has a very masculine voice, maybe all indie rock male singers are effeminate.

Also Courtney Love. I'm too young for Nirvana, so I first heard Hole through some friends and all the time I thought it was a dude singing until I saw a video.

Lindsey Buckingham sometimes sounds like there are three girls singing in Fleetwood Mac.

Frankie Lymon

Jamiroquai.

i sound like a girl

but i like girls, so whatever.

Ted Taylor of "(Love Is Like A) Rambling Rose" fame.

When I was a kid, I thought "Hello it's Me" was sung by a woman

named carole king

Sonny Charles

Oh Lori by Alessi owns this thread.

Ney Matogrosso / Secos & Molhados

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIyvM9Ce7mM&feature=fvw

Bobb Trimble, according to Mrs. Redd.

^Bobb has tricked friends of mine, as well.
Re: Todd Rundgren's resemblance to Carole King: I heard "I saw the Light" while watching the movie Kingpin last weekend and I immediately started a search for it on the internet assuming that it was a Carole King hit. I guess I'm not the only one.

the members of The Rock Mafia do not appear in the video for their song "The Big Bang"...i assumed the lead vocalist was female until i saw a male member of the band perform the song on TV this morning.

lol i just heard-not-saw that performance here at work, totally assumed it was a woman

Rhye is actually Mike Milosh.

I'd been listening to Budgie for a few years before I found out that Burke Shelley was a man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWbfIuZ5E_k

Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, one of the first recorded female impersonators, castrati aside.

Don't know how we missed the vocalist in Jigsaw, all those years ago. A drummer to boot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHHM17uzXY

Ha, or Eric Carmen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_LcZhmkg88

That one guy from Air Supply. always thought All Outta Love was sung by a woman

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, apparently.