Vocal Dissonance has a No Real Life Examples, Please! rule - so anything comparing a musician's everyday appearances to their normal voice isn't an example. To qualify for this trope they need to be actively creating a persona in some way, by shifting their voice and/or changing their appearance.
- John Hiatt (of "Have A Little Faith In Me" fame), as well. Skeletal, long-haired white guy with a voice that could easily belong to a black soul singer from the ‘60s.
- Christian musician/puppeteer Marcy Tigner is an adult woman with creepily convincing little girl voice. [1]
- And then there's Tay Zonday, the guy who sings "Chocolate Rain". He looks about 12 years old in that video but was actually 20 and has a very deep singing voice.
- Listen to this cover of Asking Alexandria's "Final Episode". The face of the guy in the video looks good as a vocalist, until you hear his voice.
- Aaron Neville had a brief movie appearance as "Man with gun," an intimidating character the hero confronted in a slum area. His singing voice, on the high end of tenor, almost into soprano, has been described as the voice the angels wish they had (famously, he was described as "the body of a linebacker and the voice of an angel").
- Cayman Ilika, in her 20's, already a rich mezzo/contralto singing voice that strongly contrasted with her girly looks and speaking voice. She's become even more soulful in recent years.
- One word: GACKT. Many people have mistaken GACKT for a woman on first appearances due to his delicate and very feminine facial features. So it's quite surprising when this voice comes out of him.
- Scotty McCreery, season 10 winner on American Idol. He looks like Alfred E. Neuman, but has a surprisingly deep bass-baritone.
- Two words: Bianca Ryan. She was 12 when this song was recorded.
- Jackie Evancho was only 10 when she sang "O mio babbino caro" with "the voice of an angel." The judges asked her to perform another song to make sure that really was her voice.
- Ray Toro, lead guitarist of My Chemical Romance, is 6'1'', has super-curly hair that ranges from an afro to long curls reminiscent of Slash, and has the voice of a ten-year-old. Especially noticeable in songs when he sings a higher harmony, and in this interview [2] (skip to 2:34).
- Rihanna has a mild version of this, in that when she sings she has no accent but when she talks she has a noticeable Barbados accent. She sang with the accent when she first became famous, so one imagines there was some voice training involved.
- Jens Kästel of Funker Vogt looks like a handsome heartthrob, but has a guttural bass/baritone voice.
- Christian Alvestam of Scar Symmetry. He's physically a fat bald guy and has an incredibly heavy Swedish accent. But when he sings...
- Dani Filth is a tiny effeminate English guy who is very friendly when interviewed, but his vocals as frontman for Cradle of Filth are terrifying. He also has a strong interest in the occult and keeps skeletons in his house just to scare visitors.
- Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria. Big bear of a man, high tenor singing voice. And then there's the dichotomy between his clean vocals and his screams.
- Katie Stelmanis of Austra. Petite Girl Next Door look, big classical opera voice.
- Similarly, hi-NRG diva Abigail Zsiga has the kind of deep powerful voice that you would think shouldn't even be physically possible from someone who looks so much like a child's stick figure drawing.
- French metal vocalist Guillaume Bideau. His speaking voice is very laid back, somewhat deep, and has a fairly heavy accent. He also looks like a tough guy◊ who should sound like Phil Anselmo when he sings. This (skip the intro if you aren't patient) is what his melodic vocals sound like. While he's still a good singer, it's not hard to see why Mnemic fans accused them of selling out when he joined the band. At least his screams don't contrast as much.
- Jim Nabors will always be associated with drawling Gomer Pyle from Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. but had a rich and powerful baritone voice. He released several albums. A lot of comedians made jokes about it back in the 1960s and 70s.
- For many years he provided the vocal part to Back Home Again in Indiana at the annual race of the Indianapolis 500.
- Khanh Doan is a 5'1" pixie who could still pass for a teen at age 36, yet has a mature mezzo soprano voice.
- Queen's Roger Taylor◊ has blond hair, big blue eyes, and a baby face, but sings in a gravelly, three-packs-a-day voice.
- A lot of male Dominican merengue singers have a singing voice that comes as equally nasal and high pitched, contrasting with their appearances and talking voices. Juan Luis Guerra is one of those: his normal (and quite deep) talking voice suits his bohemian bearded appearance, but he has been doing the nasal singing thing for so long that, unless you had listen him on interviews, you couldn't believe that the both the speech and the singing parts on "El Niagara en Bicicleta" came from the same larynx.
- Invoked historically in the case of castrati: male singers whose gonads were removed at puberty, ensuring that their boyhood vocal pitch would be retained into adulthood. Such performers were once in demand because they had feminine vocal ranges, but backed up with the powerful projection that only a castrato's large lungs and elongated chest could generate.
- Ozzy Osbourne claims that when he first met his original guitarist Randy Rhoads, Randy had a very low voice that contrasted with his stick-thin, womanly-looking Long-Haired Pretty Boy appearance.
- Morten Harket from a-ha was pretty much the living incarnation of a Pretty Boy and still looks damn fine. His vocal range is shockingly big, going from quite the depths to a borderline shrill falsetto. The famous chorus of Take on me is quite the proof.
- Eurobeat vocalist Linda "Irene" Ongarelli has a rather high voice for her buxom physique, and it often gets chipmunked (pitch-shifted) even higher.
- Laura Tartuferi (Laura Vox) is the opposite; slender build, deep soul/jazz voice.
- Julie McInnes, Australian singer, cellist and circus performer, who has starred in many Cirque du Soleil shows including Amaluna, has a manly contralto voice despite her small frame and looking somewhat younger than her real age.
- Peter Spilles of Project Pitchfork, despite his pretty-boy appearance◊, has a baritone voice and usually sings Harsh Vocals.
- The music video for Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" shows a conversation between a young man and a phone sex operator. At the end, they show what the operator actually looks like!
- Kazumi Evans, who provides the operatic singing voice of Rarity in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, looks quite different from what you'd expect◊.
- Ella Fitzgerald, having the widest vocal range of any singer to date, used this to her advantage regularly.
- It still throws off some people when they watch *NSYNC's a cappella performances that Chris Kirkpatrick◊ looks like a biker but sings and speaks like a teenage boy while Lance Bass◊ is the opposite, a Pretty Boy with a deep husky voice.
- 2-D from the virtual band Gorillaz has a tall, lean figure and distant black eyes that match his singing voice quite well. While his singing voice is rather low and clear, his speaking voice is a ridiculously high-pitched and heavy cockney accent with a mild case of Elmuh Fudd Syndwome. Justified as his singing voice is provided by Blur's Damon Albarn while his speaking voice is provided by a different voice actor, and was likely done so deliberately for comedic affect.
- Ex-Moldy Peaches singer and solo artist, Adam Green, originally sang in a voice rather close to his speaking voice, which is the kind of voice one would expect out of a skinny stoner. But starting with his second solo album, he began singing in a surprisingly deep baritone that makes his surreal lyrics sound even more out of place.
- Michael Barnes of the Christian metal/modern rock band Red is a somewhat stocky bald man with a tired face and a scruffy beard. Which makes his blood-curdling screams and young-sounding low tenor singing voice sound perplexing to those who haven't seen the band in photos. Compare what he looks like◊ to what he sounds like. Believe it or not, his speaking voice, which is even higher, fits him even less.
- Extreme Metal and Metalcore vocalists are often quite young (and, surprisingly often, Bishōnen), but perform guttural growls, strangulated screams or both. See also: the inversion of Scary Musician, Harmless Music.
- The late Joe Cocker sang in a raspy baritone since his youth, when he easily sounded like a man two decades older. And despite his Large Ham tendencies as a singer, he was mostly soft-spoken in interviews, also sounding higher-pitched than what one would expect.
- Similarly, Bad Company and Free vocalist Paul Rodgers speaks in a slightly high-pitched, soft voice, a contrast to his bluesy baritone on songs like "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" and "All Right Now".
- The rapper utaite nqrse is well known for his deep, crass rapping voice, but he often uses a cute girl for his avatar. It's not a complete exaggeration; his real self is quite the pretty boy in real life.
- Jason Donovan had quite a surprising baritone-sounding and soulful singing voice for such a blonde-haired, blue-eyed pretty boy throughout his bubblegum pop career from 1989-1991. He also sounded low-pitched when he was talking, but not as low-pitched as his singing voice and sounded more youthful.
- Lewis Capaldi looks like he hasn't finished high school yet, but that doesn't stop his speaking voice from sounding almost exactly like Shrek, or his singing voice carrying a powerful baritone.
- Most Songdrops songs are edited to sound goofy and high-pitched, almost helium-like. Their actual singer is a man.
- Bifauxnen (possibly Butch Lesbian) synthwave artist Laura "LAU" Fares has a contrastingly feminine singing voice.
- In "Talking Toy Box" by Joe Scruggs, a baby doll says "FEED ME!" in a deep, monsterous voice. Justified when it's revealed her batteries were just low.
- Felix of Stray Kids looks like this◊ but sounds like this.
- Reggae/rap artist Snow, best known for the 1992 hit "Informer", sings in a fast-flowing Jamaican patois which belies the fact that he's a white guy from Canada. The neighborhood he was raised in, North York, Toronto, had an influx of Jamaican immigrants during his teen years, and befriending them led to him learning how to speak and sing like a Jamaican.
- Kerry Minnear of Gentle Giant was a tall, long-haired, and very bearded man◊ but had a very soft voice and a beautiful falsetto.
- Conor Knowles of the Dark Wave duo Psychic Guilt resembles Andy Bell in his younger years, but sings like Andrew Eldritch.
