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  • I could be wrong but let me place a few out there. Michael Bolton, Rick Astley, Joe Crocker, Robin Thicke, Daniel Merriweather, Michael McDonald, George Michael, but I could be wrong maybe they just sing soulful, but I think a few of them sound black.

  • Robin thicke...he's sings like a black man but he's white

  • If we continue falling into the pop music crap they sing then yes, but you don't see ANY other females sining like Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Mahalla Jackson, and so on and so on.

  • The bee gees, Christina Aguilara, Jon B, Robin Thicke, Elvis Presley, and many others sound like a black singer, when singing. I thought that Jessie J was black, too. Who else?...There are a couple others.

  • the shaytards intro(one of their intro) was done by a asian american dude...but for the longest time, i thought it was a African American guy rapping.

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  • come to england you will be inundated with them that's ALL we have rappers, soul singers rnb singers all sound BLACK im not sure you remember rick ashtly when i first heard him i thought he was black- now as for americans you have micheal macdonald dr john.

  • I think Justin Timberlake does at times.

  • naw black women will never be replaced as long as i have something to say about it 2 micheal mcdonald i thought was black and queen(another bites the dust)when i were a child SHALUM

  • lol should have been called are black people replacable you should hear how eminem sounded in his interviews when he first came out if the pop world see that replaced black dudes from hip hop with good white rappers they will do the same with black female r and b singers more then

  • yep 

  • According to many black males, yes.

  • what about the michael bolton song 'when a man loves a woman'? he sounds kind of black. i dont think its a case of hitting the bass notes, as this is more down to individual differences rather than race. but there are there differences between the vocal chords of different races which may make it difficult for white men to achieve a "black" sound.

  • I can only think of Bobby Caldwell who sang Do for love. Which got sampled by everyone Tupac, Aaliyah, Tatianna Ali etc.

  • @MizzDiamonds Damn you just taught me something. I just went & looked at the video of Bobby & i'll be dang he is white. I always thought he was black lol.

  • some sound great on cd's but cant do it in person

  • You can try your best to replicate us, but you'll never be us. You don't have the feelings we do and whatnot. I'd much rather support a black artist, but only if I actually like them. Sorry, that's just how it is.

  • Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers comes to mind. Just listen to "What a fool believes".

  • jon b. 

  • rick ashley?

  • black women singers you mean? lol

  • Jon B? When Eminem came out I thought he was black.

  • There's a Christian singer named Wess Morgan who I thought was Black until I saw him.

  • WE CAN never be replaced, you can sound, sing, and talk, walk, copy or what ever.... but you can NEVER be the real thing... we got dat on lock down ;-D

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  • Yes they are....

  • I am not sure what you mean by replaceable. You either were born with a god given talent or you aren't OR you meet some Caucasion standard of Black beauty with a mediocrity of talent. I am not Black, but it does bother me that dark skinned Black women are not celebrated or even acknowledged. In other words, it seems like the new Black isn't Black at all but of clearly mixed race which is portrayed as the standard. Where did the Grace Jones's of world go? Am I wrong?

  • how about Bobby Caldwell (What you wont do for Love) ?

    P.s. We are always imitated but never duplicated.

  • Robin Thicke yum lol,he sounds like a black man 

  • @cripse68 yeah Robin comes to mind

  • there is a bigger difference between a black man and a white man voice

    than a black and white woman voice

  • I'm tired of this its the people that you pick that ain't no good that's the problem

  • @onlinebabeful some people thought the song, "hit me baby one more time" was sung by a black female? since when?

  • It seems like a lot of white women are doing soul music these days. But they can't compare to the real soul singers that have been doing this for years.

  • I don't know if its because I'm familiar with some other foreign singers, but I never confused Little Dragon as black. She reminds me of Kate Havnevik who's a Norwegian singer.

  • I mean Disney plucks out some little white girl who can carry a tune for 5 seconds every other day. The only other time you really see extraordinary white female singers is if they sing a genre that's not fully mainstream, like country singers. A lot of them can sing just as well as black women but are not confused for black women.

  • @vintagenarcissa I agree with you. I don't think blk females are replaceable. It is just a media hype.

  • I don't know so much that its that black women are replaceable, but more than black women with singing talent are just more striking, which is why when a non black woman comes a long who can sing people assume she is black. White men in this age are also known for their singing talent. But many of us grew up under the influence of Britney Spears and other manufactured bubblegum pop, so not a lot is expected of white female performers. Especially in main stream.

  • We are totally replacable. look at the girl from black eyed peas, adele, the late amy winehouse, christian aquilera, and more. the only black female performers they all to be on the airwaves are light, bright damn near white. beyonce, rihanna, nikki maj, and the dark ones, like kelly rowland, india arie are tossed to the side. if kelly rowland was lighter her career would be better. its sad but all the effects of blk are being taking from our body shape to our vocal ability. its over

  • @shyvixx1 Troll much?

  • @ImNotYourFriend212 um check the pic darling, far from it ;)

  • Robin Thicke does not sound black to me...sorry.

  • @jga665 Only to those who don't really know music.

  • @jga665 he's just another white dude!

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  • Ditto, Robin Thicke comes to mind immediately, there are many other "blue eye - soul brothers" as some DJ dub them. Some of them are of the 60's, 70's and now the in the millienium. I'll have to find my thinking cap to recall their names and when I do - I'll hit you up on it.... Happy New Year!

  • Robin thicke most definitely.

  • Check out the band Redbone (Come and get your Love)

  • Robyn Thicke--sounds like a black guy

  • Can't*

  • @delite...you technically cat act black. I'm just saying#

  • Pow wow LOL

  • Rick Astley?

  • Jon B sounds a little black

  • @love83forever sounds black or sings black?

  • There was this Asian man who used to be a vj on MTV back in the day, he also hosts a radio show. I swore he was a black man when i heard him.

  • I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE "RICK ROLL" GUY WAS BLACK UNTIL I SAW THE VIDEO! I WAS SHOCKED!

    I must have been the only perosn on earth that never saw the Rick Astley video. I saw that skinny white boy and I was like "Oh Sh__ hell naw!"

  • That male soulful quality toward the bass is a little rarer across racial groupings. Though on the falsetto side you'll find more representative soulful diversity. Seems to me to be a great opportunity for evolutionary biologists to dig in and get some inkings about, being that the throat and voicebox is right there covered by layers of tissue and skin. The physics of sound is understood. Can't be all that hard to understand the qualitative dynamics of soul. Kinda makes me wish I had nine lives

  • Are Black Women replaceable for me? Would you ask the same of my hands and feet? Without which no motion could there ever be Thus this question I could never meet.

    For whom raised me and soothed my infant woe? Whose milk strengthened me to walk tall and strong. How could I not wish such a person to know, In this I'm sure I can never be wrong.

    From slaves bonds to picket lines we both went. From this task we could not be stopped nor bent. So why question this design for she was meant to be mine

  • I thought Robin Thicke is was black when I heard him on the radio for the 1st time.

  • Jon B.

  • Robin Thicke

  • I've heard some Asian and white men that soing black equally with non-black women who sound black Far east movement (some of their songs) most popular example funny how these things work??

  • jon b. or robin thicke i think sound black ..what do you think?

  • Oh and... as for black women be replaceable. We aren't. If we were, they would of accomplished that a long time ago. I mean seriously folks, it isn't like they haven't been trying to, lol.

  • Teena Marie

  • @RotundaHopkins Rick Astley never sounded black to me. When I first heard him, I knew he wasn't black. He sounded imitation to me. Same thing with Harry Connick Jr. I never thought he sounded black. He sounds like a imitation of Frank Sinatra. Not a black man.

  • what about collie buds?

  • @sylverwicca he is bashment

  • The title of this video is controversial "sounding" for no apparent reason... this really had nothing to do with black women being replaceable. No hate, just saying.

  • umm...what is the dude name that sings never gonna give you up? Rick something I thought he was black but he is a pale red headed white dude...lol

  • Robin Thicke tries to act black - it kinda stupid - (check it out on You Tube Chelsea Lately) But he does not sound black when he sings

  • To me Robin Thicke doesn't sound black. Jon B on the other hand does.

  • Robin Thicke sings like a black guy.

  • Bobby caldwell. " What you wouldnt do for love." That white man sounds black in that one song.

  • When I was growing up I always though Hall and Oats, and the Doobie Brothers was black dudes.

  • they could be replaced by robots with a big bass speaker.

  • here is how to sound like michael mcdonald 'ugh ohh aag umm uroooaah' he never pronounces words. what a fool believeeeeves ugh eeeeee e sa da sha da shaba ooh nuttin at all.

  • michael mcdonald sounds kind of black and so does that guy who makes that song 'never gonna give you up'. i stopped listening to new music back in the 90's so i am not familiar with these singers you talk about.

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  • Stevie Ray Vauhan and Joe Cocker are almost always thought to be black when judged by their singing. Stevie Ray Vauhan is particularly uncanny.

  • @supafly345 When I first heard Stevie Ray Vaughan, he didn't sound black to me. He sounded like a country white boy.

  • @yahkini64 I wouldn't call either of those women "very soulful".

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  • Michael McDonald has a very soulful voice to me. He sounds black.

  • Bobby Caldwell the Singer .. sounds black (to me )

  • The only guy who definately confused me was Mick Hucknall from Simply Red in Holding Back the Years

  • I don't think the chick from Little Dragon sounds black. However, there are some singers out there that really do or come very close.

  • I don't think blk females are replaceable. No race/gender combo really is. The "problem", if that's what you want to call it, is western media favors nonblk over blk, especially when it comes to women. So a nonblk female with a 'blk' timbre is seen as have an X-factor will the blks who have that in higher abundance aren't given extra pts for it.

  • @Unekwu89

    You ain't neva lied.

  • @UHeardMe1stTime when you say replaceable, what do you mean?

  • @Unekwu89 - They sure seem to be able to replace Native Americans with almost anything - Indians (Hindus), Latinas, Whites with a tan, Asians, etc. in every movie and TV show...

  • @morpheusxnyc

    yeah, in the media sense people are replaceable. For instance Asian males are pretty much invisible, blacks (women in particular) are disproportionately represented by people who are half or less than half black, ect.

    However in a cultural and historical sense races/cultures are irreplaceable.

  • BLACK PPL COME IN MANY COLORS!

  • Color Me Bad from back in the day confused the hell out of me when I was a kid LOL

  • @7SaintsRow that's a good one! i forgot about them. when i first heard them i definitely thought that lead singer was black.

  • Oh, I thought this was going to be about how the music industry loves to find the great white hypes to replace black women singers and they always end up selling way more than their black counterparts.

  • I thought Rihannia was white for a while. You have to remember that every is using Auto tune to fix or enhance there voice. So mabay a black voice pattern is just the thing they are using.

  • Bobby Caldwell is the only name that comes to mind right now.

  • Rick Astley lol

  • In the eyes of the music industry, ANYBODY, regardless of race or gender, can be replaced. They do it ever so often when the "next big thing" comes out. American Idol, anyone? There are several factors leading to the "replacement" of black women in the music industry: the cutting of funds form art/music programs in public schools, which affects a lot of black children - white females who "sing black," Nikka Costa and Jane Monheit had fathers who were music executives, so they could afford...

  • ...to go to schools with music programs, and they got music education at home; speaking of music executives, many of them select female AND MALE artists whom they feel would be "more marketable" to the public. As someone mentioned, this has been going on since the days of Elvis. The difference between the "black" sound and the "white" sound is attributed to the difference in our facial bone structures, and sinuses (resonance chambers). Despite singing styles, these resonance differences...

  • ...can frequently be recognized, and with some training be compensated for.

  • Britney Spears-oh baby baby... tune ..before everyone knew who britney was..most thought it was a black female.

  • @onlinebabeful Most thought Britney Spears was black off of that "Baby, Baby" tune??? That news to me... and I don't buy it.

  • Teena Marie and Michael McDonald all that comes to mind.

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  • Wayne Brady OH SORRY MY BAD HE IS BLACK,are is he.

  • cant replace blacks but they will take are copy our god giving gifts! and theres a reason for this, but thats a deeper story

  • i have herd a black woman that sounds white in her music Wynter Gordon

  • How 'bout this guy. watch?v=XZ5TajZYW6Y

    :)

  • Joss Stone and Christina Aguilera both sound black, especially Christina because she has soooo much soul. And Joss Stone's style of singing just kind of reminds me of Janis Joplin, only Joss Stone sounds better and her voice is a lot stronger.

  • @NEMESIS1JUSTICE4ALL Naw, I think Christina has a strong voice, but you can tell that was a white woman doing imitations. Joss Stone is just annoying.

  • Elvis.... hahahhahahha

  • i think the black female singing voice/pattern can definitely be imitated/reproduced pretty successfully by nonblacks. i can usually kinda tell though cuz there are usually a few subtle differences. i think little dragon's voice is very close but not quite the same. but how about nonwhite females that sound white? are white women, or the white singing voice specifically, replaceable? probably. and i think it's probably easier to emulate/imitate white women than it is to imitate black women.

  • Jon b in the 90's but his voice wasn't deep

  • justin timberlake maybe? actually he probably sounds more like a black female though. no diss to him of course, i really like him, but his voice is pretty high for a male but so was michael jackson's so whatever. there arent a whole lot of famous nonblack singers that i can think of but there are a lot of amateur nonblack singers on youtube that sound black.

  • @qalamama There is nothing remotely black sounding about Justin Timberfake.

  • @tnn1

    Amen!

  • @tnn1 okay, fine, i was just throwing it out there. he doesnt exactly sound like a black man but he doesnt really sing like the typical white dude either. when was the last time you heard a white man do the kinds of vocal runs justin does? he grew up on al green and he's definitely TRYING to sound black. his mickey mouse voice just kinda keeps him from completely hitting the mark. i stand by what i said lol.

  • @tnn1 I agree. Justin Timberlake sounding black.. don't think so. Remember when they were calling him the, "next Michael Jackson". LOL.

  • Can black women be replaced? Nope...

  • EVERYONE is replaceable! 

    Oh, you listen to Paul Wall?? Minus 1...

  • a lot of people thought bobby caldwell was black when he came out; some folks thought michael mc donald was black; roy head does, depending on the song...  and wayne cochran was the one white dude who had the moves like james brown (but no one could ever replace mr. brown), and could sound sort of like jackie wilson, depending on the moment.

  • there is a white gospel singer that is mistaken for a black male but I can't think of his name at the moment

  • One white man has ever sounded black to me. Bobby cawldwell. He sang " do for love" back in the day.

  • Adele? Ray LaMontagne?

  • BLACK WOMEN CANNOT BE REPLACED

    BUT BLACK MEN CAN BE REPLACED WITH INDIAN MEN.

  • @hastious your a sexist.

  • @Yankeezcap

    Why are you calling a nigga sexist??

  • @hastious woman and man are of the same type.

    woman is not expendable ever, man is expendable... just get another man. Only significant difference is sex... but one is deemed with noticeably more value due to gender. this is clear sexism.

    I suspect you may be trolling... cause who calls them self a "nigga" after being called a sexist? That's kind of weird.

  • @Yankeezcap

    I think you missed his point lol The sister of this video is married to an Indian man.

  • @hastious

    looool good one!

  • No, black women can't be replaced but, they can be mimmicked

  • BLACK WOMEN CAN NEVER BE DUPLICATED.....

    AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  • Joe Cocker and Michael Mcdonald sound like BM to me. I think to the public, BM and BW are replaceable. The only thing nonblacks love more than black music is a nonblack (especially a white person)singing it (Elvis and Eminem).

  • @heavymetalloverz Yup, Yup, Yup!

  • theres a old school singer named Joe Cocker he's a white dude that sounds black

  • Jessie J (listen to 'do it like a dude')

    & Daniel Merriweather! -I thought he sounded black

  • Jon B.

  • @ShinIsTrue

    Oh, yeah. Jon B. I'll accept that 1. Robin Thicke, no. I can tell.

  • @UHeardMe1stTime Jon B. is Puerto Rican. Sure that's technically "non-black", but some Puerto Ricans have a significant mix of African and native ancestry.

  • PS no. black woman can't be replaced. but black pussy can be replaced. at least that's how men think

  • Robin Thicke sounds black.

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