White singers I originally thought were African-American

[NightTrain]

Before I saw their pictures, that is! :)

Roy Head ("Treat Her Right")
The Righteous Brothers
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
The Soul Survivors ("Expressway To Your Heart")
Timi Yuro ("Hurt," "What's A-Matter Baby")

[meegbear]

1. Michael McDonald

He has a soul voice.

[Fenris]

Um, hello?

:D

[Richardo]

2. Jamiroquai...

[southpaw]

9. Jay Kay...

Biggest ego on the face of the planet, or so I've been told...

[southpaw]

3. Rick Astley

Damnit... I thought I'd beat Fenris to this one...

His "Astley Senses" must have started tingling...

[Fenris]

5. Not technically!

:D see #2

[southpaw]

6. Yah... I edited my post...

You are, indeed, the master of all things Astley.

[Fenris]

7. I do what I can

:D

[FlashHarry]

4. Tony Joe White! ("Polk Salad Annie")

I thought he was black for a long time. Then again, I thought Charlie Pride was white, so I guess it kinda evens out...

[southpaw]

8. Teena (or was it Tina?) Marie

Babe could jam.

[southpaw]

10. Larry Underwood

"Baby can you dig your man...
He's a Righteous Man..."

That brown sound sho do get around.

[underpants]

11. Michael Jackson

Oh come you knew that was coming.....okay maybe that was in bad taste....damn I can't stop it.....okay that's it.

[Fenris]

14. *rimshot*

[chiburb]

12. Pat Boone....

He sounded SO much like Little Richard...

[Whitacre D_WI]

13. The AM soul station in Springfield, OH during the '60s...

...used to refer to Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley as "The Whitetious Brothers."

At least, according to my dad.

[DrWeird]

15. Who's the one on that phone commercial?

nt

[Fenris]

16. Seriously?

Michael McDonald

[Clovis Sangrail]

17. Tom Waits

First thing I heard from him was "16 shells from a Thirty ought six"

[tishaLA]

18. The Simply Red guy

[southpaw]

19. Mick Hucknall

[tishaLA]

20. he's a really good singer

last time I saw him, he looked like hell.

[TacticalPeek]

21. Mose Allison

And for quite a while I thought Miles Davis was white, because the early records had no pics, and the only guy named
"Miles" I'd ever heard of was Miles Standish.

:shrug:

[Whitacre D_WI]

22. Mose Allison is an effing genius.

[Eureka]

23. Clare Torry

She did the vocals on Great Gig In the Sky off Dark Side of the Moon. She was on a BBC doco about the album, but I can't find a pic.

[Kat45]

24. Roy Head's "Treat Her Right": the second 45 I ever bought!

Man, I loved that song when I was about 10-11. Still do. :-)

[NNadir]

25. Mariah Carey is mostly Caucasian, so I don't know if she qualifies.

I thought she was 100% African American when I first heard her. I also thought she was a big woman like the incomparable 'Retha. (It was sometime before I saw a picture.)

Whatever the commercialism of Carey, she does have a great and powerful voice, not well used maybe, but still very, very good.

[Devil Dog Dem]

26. Vanilla Ice

Brother could sing!

[TrogL]

27. Bjork

[Kamika]

28. I thought Jimmy Sommerville was a black female

I was chocked to find out it was a white guy