male and female singers who sound unnervingly alike

The Residents singer and Divine?

Jamiroquai = early Stevie Wonder
Dani Klein (Vaya Con Dios) on Just A Friend Of Mine = Boy George

oh wait, Jamiroquai and Stevie Wonder are both non-female, aren't they? Scrap that one.

Boyzone's "Baby can I hold you tonight" sounded a heck of a lot like Joan Armatrading.

Then I discovered it was a cover version of one of her songs. That one sounded a lot like Boyzone!

Back To Life = Bros

Praise You = Eels.

more?

Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.

Tanita Tikaram and Lloyd Cole may not sound alike, but they look very much alike.

Boyzone's "Baby can I hold you tonight" sounded a heck of a lot like Joan Armatrading.

Then I discovered it was a cover version of one of her songs. That one sounded a lot like Boyzone!

Does this possibly have to do with the fact that "Baby Can I Hold You Tonight"'s writer and original performer, Tracy Chapman, was very obviously influenced by Joan Armatrading in her vocal style?

Corin Tucker = Geddy Lee

For awhile I thought the singer from Frou Frou was a Thom Yorke-ish guy singing in falsetto.

somebody think of a female singer that Limahl sounds like, because there's gotta be tons

Michael Jackson and R. Kelly.

Alison Moyet/Andy Bell

haha I was just listening to Yaz

Spencer OTM about Moyet/Bell.

That guy from Anthony and the Johnsons sounds like, well, everybody knows who he sound slike.

Heather Smalls from M People?

Liz Fraser and Jeff Buckley. Don't believe me? Listen to them sing together. I cant tell who is who sometimes.

Neil Sedaka and Taffy of "I Love My Radio" fame.

He sounds like Nina Simone, in case someone hadn't noticed. But Heather Smalls is a good one too.

moyet + bell were the ones i first thought of

Plenty of times I couldn't tell if it was Daltery or Townshend singing, particularly on the soft passages.

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i-know-how-it-feels-to-be-a-woman-because-i-am-a/410007.html/

Another female singer sounding a lot like Michael Jackson i Siedah Garret. You can hardly tell the difference on "I Just Can't Stop Loving You".

On the first lines of "Planet Telex" Thom Yorke sounds exactly like Aimee Mann.

I recently played a whole Terry Callier album at a 'dinner party' before someone commented "I love Nina Simone".

Oh gosh I didnt think of this one: Thom Yorke, and Colin Ruffino from Home Video. Amazingly similar, in a very complimentary way.

Also I find I have trouble distinguishing Dave and Martin from Depeche apart, but I am sure DM fans will slaughter me for that one, heh.

!! hey wait aminute. Mysterbey, are you the mysterbey I know from LJ!?

Also I find I have trouble distinguishing Dave and Martin from Depeche apart, but I am sure DM fans will slaughter me for that one, heh.

I can understand that. For a while I thought Dave was singing everything there, and it wasn't until Dave's 1989 solo EP I realized that he sung some of their stuff. His voice is a bit lighter and has a more obvious vibrato, but there are obviously similarities.

They are both males though. ;)

Martin's 1989 solo EP I mean.

Janis Joplin and Robert Plant sound quite similiar, to the extent I once thought a Janis Joplin tune was a Led Zeppelin one I'd never heard.

I had no idea that Thom Yorke sang on 'El Presidente' by Drugstore until someone told me.

That song is killer in this category. If you're not paying attention, it just sounds like a girl.

I am trying to come up with female singers that sound like Barry Gibb or Leo Sayer, as there ought to be some, but I'm not able to think of any. They sound a lot like each other though.

If your tinnitus is as bad as mine, Kristin Hersh and Frank Black occasionally.

Are there any female singers who sound like Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash or Lee Marvin?

horace andy/dawn penn

ciara and ciara har har.

Divine and Alice Cooper. Although Divine would have serious problems with the gender test.