| Male: Tito Schipa. Great singer of opera and Spanish, Italian song back in the 1920s and 1930s. Incredible stylist.
Female: Billie Holiday. Jazz singer at her best in the 1930s and 1940s. IMO, nobody has ever touched her way of phrasing and her ability to put so much "face" in the words.
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