The great Gordon Lightfoot! Such a beautiful song. I was honored to be given front row seats when he shocked everyone by showing up to sing it at Canada’s 150th. I didn’t think he was going to show but like the great Canadian he is, he showed:
The legendary Anne Murray So innocent! My favorite part of the below video is at the 1:25 mark when the beat picks up and Anne starts walking forward to the beat. In the U.S. singers have to shake their booty, but all Anne has to do is stand there, because she’s Anne Murray, and that’s enough. And because she’s so restrained and understated, the mere act of taking a few steps forward is enough to excite the crowd.
The great Celine Dion In one of the finest moments in TV history, here she is surprising the Canadian Tenors on Oprah. French Canadian women are the most beautiful on Earth:
The incredible KD Lang
Commenter JC writes:
Through a purely subjective (and admittedly meaningless) “assessment”, k.d. merits a VQ (Vocal Quotient) of 190 (SD = 16); score assigned on the basis of her supernal performance of the song “Constant Craving”.
I also love her version of “Crying” and the way the audience cheers when she hits the high notes:
The great Burton Cummings Commenter JC also suggested that at his prime, Burton Cummings was in the same vocal league as Lang:
The fabulous Joni Mitchell Black national merit finalist G-man made this great suggestion
Based on feedback from readers, the list was updated on Feb 13, 2018
Pumpkin Person 
what about k d lang?
Through a purely subjective (and admittedly meaningless) “assessment”, k.d. merits a VQ (Vocal Quotient) of 190 (SD = 16); score assigned on the basis of her supernal performance of the song “Constant Craving”. A young Burton Cummings – another Canadian: VQ 196; “Undun”. I’d offer a grain of salt, but…
Great points JC! They’ve both been added.
How come there are no people of colour in this list?
Here is some diversity:
Never disbelieve when you see a new miracle
Like ghetto children shining bright in Babylon
Believe in that, don’t believe in stats to the contrary
Gotta be wary of them theories carry on
People find belief when they don’t find identity
Believe in your friends, don’t believe in your enemy’s
Mountains of doubt and disbelief right in front of you
Troops on the other side, what you gon’ do?
Q tip is unbelievable.
Great Canadian singers (of all time)
Yeah! How did he leave out Justin Bieber!!!????
Also Neil Young. And Diana Krall.
pumpkin is an atheist
Google
amazing atheist hates Justin Bieber
nothing more to say
pp is the aa
what chomsky says about The Bell Curve and densen is not SJW jive. chomsky is NOT an SJW. he’s the opposite. his fame in academia is for opposing behaviorism.
chomsky doesn’t say it explicitly; he’s to clever to do that. to the extent that blacks or women insist on equal outcomes and proportional representation in all positions of power they are the racists and sexists.
*too clever.
the shame is un-bearable.
if SJWs weren’t retarded this statement of chomsky’s would make them furious.
“[Moreover], the question of the relation, if any, between race and intelligence has very little scientific importance (as it has no social importance, except under the assumptions of a racist society). As to social importance, a correlation between race and mean I.Q. (were this shown to exist) entails no social consequences except in a racist society in which each individual is assigned to a racial category and dealt with not as an individual in his own right, but as a representative of this category ” In a non-racist society, the category of race would be of no greater significance [than height]. The mean I.Q. of individuals of a certain racial background is irrelevant to the situation of a particular individual, who is what he is. Recognizing this perfectly obvious fact, we are left with little, if any, plausible justification for an interest in the relation between mean I.Q. and race, apart from the “justification” provided by the existence of racial discrimination.”
translation: i, chomsky, am open to the idea that all the races may not be represented in proportion to their numbers among the very smart or very whatever, so insisting on proportional representation of all races in all things is RACIST. i don’t mention gender, but the same applies to gender. maybe there should be no female sumo wrestlers.
so many times i have said the same.
the ONLY interest is in ending race based affirmative action and replacing it with class based affirmative action.
race based affirmative action is racism.
a white kid from a trailer park in eastern kentucky should have more preference than the black kid whose parents are doctors.
Blacks might argue that even rich blacks are owed affirmative action to repay them for slavery
do whites who are descended from indentured servants make the same argument?
no.
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and if that were the a reason then blacks immigrants from africa should NOT benefit from affirmative action. but they do.
obama had no slave ancestors yet he’s the first affirmative action president.
I agree
affirmative action to African immigrants is a huge scam. Universities just do that to avoid giving slots to African americans who are considered trouble makers. This has been admitted privately.
Well said Mugabe.
PP, source for your last claim?
sandy darity made the claim in an interview. i’ll link to it if I find it.
Wow, that Chomsky quote is beautiful. I think I shed a tear. I saved it to my desktop.
in a truly post-racial society one should expect some racial inequality.
etween one-half and two-thirds of white immigrants to the American colonies between the 1630s and American Revolution had come under indentures.
every single black american who calls for reparations should be immediately deported to africa.
OH MY GOD…AND JONI MITCHELL!!!
Joni Mitchell’s been added.
and still no Justin Bieber sad 🙂
“Despacito” (American Spanish: [despa’sito]; English: “Slowly”) is a single by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee from Fonsi’s upcoming studio album.[1] On January 12, 2017, Universal Music Latin released “Despacito” and its music video, which shows both artists performing the song in La Perla neighborhood of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and the local bar La Factoría. The song was written by Fonsi, Erika Ender, and Daddy Yankee, and was produced by Mauricio Rengifo and Andrés Torres.
A remix version featuring Canadian singer Justin Bieber was released on April 17, 2017, which helped to improve the song’s chart performance in numerous countries, particularly in the English-speaking world.
Nightcore – Despacito | Lyrics
if densen really said what peepee says he said this is just another proof he was a fraud and dumb.
only a dishonest retard would think the culturally tests more complex, and densen gave no measurement. he was just jiving. that’s all psychology professors are capable of sadly.
only a dishonest retard would think the culturally tests more complex
Why? Acquiring cultural knowledge and skill is one of the most complex processes the human brain does. How do you explain the higher g loading/heritability of culturally loaded tests, assuming it’s even true.
i suggest a new question be added to the wechsler.
“what is the meaning of ‘jive turkey’?”
full credit only if answer is “arthur densen.”
Richard Manuel and Rick Danko had such beautiful voices we make them honorary Southerners.
Wasn’t familiar w/ those names (not the biggest fan of the Band), but checked them out on Youtube anyhow. Good stuff!!