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Which artist can claim to have invented his own and at the same time unique signature sound with his voice alone? Instead of answering this question with a disappointingly slim result, it is worthwhile to elicit an enthusiastic "Oh!" From your own throat. Michael Jackson even pinches his step publicly and stimulatingly. Hell yeah, that's how you write pop history! Infomercial Music

It is not for nothing that this man is called King, his virtues of rulership are put to the test early on: when disco was born in the 1970s, Michael had to measure himself against the successes of other amazing artists from the legendary Motown label. Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye : outstanding singers - even before his world career, this was noted in the American soul-pop canon of the 70s.

Michael Jackson's success is still in the shade. By nature, he seems to have what, decades later, the casting shows are desperately looking for: a complete package. His superhuman dance skills have not only opened mouths since the game-changer video for "Thriller" - but they never want to hide what a gifted, passionate singer he was.

His career began powerfully in the 1960s and 1970s with an afro and sequined bell-bottoms in soul and disco. He invents the R'n'B of the 80s, and in the 90s finally fills the big stadiums with epoch-making world improver pop and a delicate angelic voice - critics later wrongly denounce it as a soulless pop product. Allegations of child abuse, irresponsible babies kept out of hotel room windows, addiction to tablets: As gloomy as many a chapter in the life of fragile, contradictory Michael maybe, his musical work was never discredited in the end, even posthumously.?j

The moment: The particularly long and passionate "Ooouuhhh!" In 15 seconds of "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" - how he feels it!

Al Green was the last old school soul star. His music was initially a decal of Sam Cooke and Co., but became softer and more tender in the 1970s - and thus more precisely suited to his voice. He laid the foundation for what was later called Modern Soul.

Where the soul had to be sung powerfully in the 1960s, at least intensively, was with Green: everything was easy, but also longer than usual in the head voice. He gave impulses - for disco, Prince, but also for contemporary soul singers like D'Angelo, who covered Greenes "I'm Glad You're Mine" well.

The moment: These completely unexpected screams in "Take Me To The River".

You will hardly find a live video in which it hits every note exactly. It can croak, stumble on the peaks, tip over, sometimes crumble a few notes in the deeper verse, it breathes sharply and risks the next loud bark that the following sound dies.

was never the child who practiced beautifully. Hearing the ex-hippie girl, the ex-punk, the pop-avant-garde sing is always a borderline experience because she doesn't know a song that doesn't push her to the limit. The routine is hiding from her in an underwater volcano

The moment: "Vökuró", live only with harpsichord and choir in the Langholtskirkja in Reykjavík (2008; can be found easily on YouTube): an Icelandic folk song understands the whole world.

Nina Simone

Not only did Nina Simone have one of the unmistakable voices of jazz, she also used her instrument in such a way that she never adapted to a musical style. A song by Nina Simone is always a song by Nina Simone, only then is it jazz, rhythm & blues, gospel or soul.

In the 1960s she became one of the first civil rights activists in pop music: lamentations in the depths of her baritone. In her further life, Nina Simone turns out to be the greatest enemy of herself. On stage as in life, she is too erratic and confrontational. Until her death in 2003, she always remained black and proud in this way, herself. Cw

The moment: At the end of "Before Sunset", Julie Delpy puts on "Just In Time" by Nina Simone after a long, chilled night. After that, everything is fine.

Whether music is an escape from everyday life or just fantasy. Thinking of the tango royal favor, the story of Elvis or the flaming lord of Lord, for example?