Vocalists who changed their singing style

[Stumpy Pepys]

Bob Dylan's voice is always a movable feast, but his singing on Nashville Skyline is quite different to his Greenwich village voice.

Barry Gibb is the other obvious one, from tenor on something like To Love Somebody, to his slightly wheezy falsetto in the late-70s and beyond.

Chas Hodges stopped singing with the bluesy American accent he had in Head, Hands & Feet, to singing with his London accent in Chas'n'Dave.

[Jah Womble]

Hugh Cornwell's previously quite gentle rock tones were obviously 'punked up' around 1976 for maximum commercial return.

Miki Berenyi had morphed from ethereal shoegaze stylings to sassy 'Camden girl'-sneer by the time of Lush's Britpop-flirting third album.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Not exactly a conscious change, but Bonnie Tyler's trademark husky voice was the result of surgery on her vocal cords (or to be precise, she ignored the doctor's instructions not to use her voice while recovering). If you listen to an early single like Lost in France, she sounds rather different.

[WOM]

Springsteen has changed his singing style three or four times throughout an admittedly long recording career. Not just where in his chest he sings from, but also the level of 'twang' he sings it in.

[G-Man]

Tom Waits: From singing like a normal human being to sounding like Shane McGowan's teeth after their owner has gone on a four-week bender.

Heather Small: From perfectly pleasant soul voice with Hot House to agressive foghorn with the M-People.

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Drake has a variety of styles.

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Stuart Murdoch also changed his style significantly on the B&S album produced by Trevor Horn.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Bob Dylan's voice is always a movable feast, but his singing on Nashville Skyline is quite different to his Greenwich village voice.

He said it was because he gave up smoking, but like most answers to questions he gave back then it's probably bollocks.

Tom Waits: From singing like a normal human being to sounding like Shane McGowan's teeth after their owner has gone on a four-week bender.

A conscious reaction to working on One From The Heart which he found a pretty miserable experience. Heart Attack and Vine, marked a sea-change in his approach, not just in vocals but in instrumentation, production, song-writing. Everything except performance, in fact.

[hobbes]

Early Robert Smith was quite deep and sullen in his vocal delivery. The Histrionics didn't really start until The Top

[Amor de Cosmos]

Ian Hunter's voice changed from the Dylan soundalike on Mott's first album to Irene Wilde's young Dude.

[caja-dglh]

Alex Turner has definitely found his voice over the course of a decade or two.

[Walter Knight]

Alex Chilton - compare The Letter by The Box Tops with September Gurls by Big Star.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Mike Patton can change vocal styles five times in three bars.

[DPDPDPDP]

Tom Waits: From singing like a normal human being to sounding like Shane McGowan's teeth after their owner has gone on a four-week bender.

Heather Small: From perfectly pleasant soul voice with Hot House to agressive foghorn with the M-People.

Tom Waits was my first thought when I read the thread title. I love his early stuff. Can’t stand any of his later stuff.

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Rod Stewart going from his early “normal” singing voice to his mid-Atlantic accented crooner voice.