YouTube - Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me (No,No,No) (Original)I don't know of many black people who can sing and make a pleasant sound, other than Stevie Wonder, Fourplay, Pieces of a Dream, and Kem.
YouTube - Sister Nancy - BAM BAM
not to mention nina simone,billy holiday,lauren hill,jean grey.
also...marley i hear the soul in those tracks you posted
but it (from my perspective) sounds like just a voice
that has been trained,she is singing with her mouth and throat not her heart.
she has MAD potential but needs to find her root core in order to access her full magick.
her voice is right on...it is just her lack of heart that creates a subtle difference in the sound.
that subtle difference is what makes me gaga for a particular vocalist.