Robert Plant has been called the greatest rock and roll singer of all time, and deservedly so. Considering the magnitude of his own talent, it's no surprise that the former Led Zeppelin frontman has a major appreciation for other gifted vocalists...or that his musical taste spans an impressively broad range of genres and styles.
In a 1990 interview with Q magazine shared on RobertPlanted.com, Plant looked back on the early days of his career, recalling his first meeting with "Pagey" (Jimmy Page). As Plant explained, he was a struggling 19-year-old singer with "nowhere to live" at the time, but his skills impressed Page, who was putting together the band that would become Led Zeppelin.
In an attempt to get to know him a little better, Page invited Plant over to his house, where the two "played records and talked about them to see how we were placed.”
After revealing that he and Page bonded over their shared affection for records by Muddy Waters, Joan Baez and Fairport Convention, Plant turned the conversation to the music he was listening to at the time of the interview.
"At 41 I’ve still got my music. I’m as earnest now as I ever was,” Plant said, going on to mention artists including Otis Rush, Snooks Eaglin and Robyn Hitchcock before gushing over Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor.
"She captivates me, wins my heart, wins my whole being!” Plant said.
Robert Plant praised the 'fractured' quality of Sinéad O'Connor's voice
During a 1990 interview shared on YouTube, Plant elaborated on what "excited" him about O'Connor's voice.
“I guess I listen to anything and everything that excites me, really,” he said. “I mean, I like Sinéad O’Connor’s voice and the areas of it that are fractured,” he continued, adding, “I like to hear singers who are, actually, things are just about ready to dissolve and disintegrate when they’re singing.”
“They’re trying something, and it’s the risk of trying it that works really well that appeals to me,” Plant explained. “I don’t care if they sing flat, sharp, or whatever, so long as they’re going for something; they’re trying to put over a mood. That mood is always going to be dramatic, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying.”
One can only imagine what a collaboration between Plant and O'Connor might have sounded like. Sadly, O'Connor died in 2023 at the age of 56.
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