Raul Malo's Eight Favorite Singers  From country legends to
operatic masters, the Mavericks leader lists his biggest vocal
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Listening to Raul Malo sing transcends the aural experience. The
leader of the Mavericks and a genre-bending solo artist, Malo
possesses a voice that vibrates through a listener's entire core
— to say nothing of what it does on an emotional level.  Related
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parts Orbison and Pavarotti, Malo, then, is regarded as one of
country music's most respected singers. With that in mind,
Rolling Stone Country polled Malo for his own favorite
vocalists. Here's his Great Eight, in his own words.  Luciano
Pavarotti "Top of the list as far as a pure beautiful instrument
is Pavarotti. His version of 'Nessun Dorma' is probably the
standard by which others are measured and fail because it's
about as perfect as it could be."  Louis Armstrong "Louis
Armstrong is the opposite of Pavar