What Makes This Singer Great? David Coverdale 

David Coverdale is a true rock star, always surrounded by phenomenal musicians

davids a true pro. He's lost much of his vocals over the last couple years, but the man is STILL doing it. That says alot. He must love the fans and his music. He still oozes that it factor that makes him who he is on stage. That cannot be coached or taught. Kudos and thanks for sharing this Ken.

David Coverdale was my teenage love. His voice is so bluesy, so perfec and his magnetic presence fills the stage. He is a prodigy.

OMG I love David Coverdale !!! Very masculine tone . Like you said Ken his distortion is perfect. Great blues riffs in his singing. Top notch vocalist of all time. He's worked with the best musicians ever.🤘👍🤘

I love his deep distorted bluesy vibrato. Example: judgement day David is my all time favorite singer. Unfortunately now his voice is completely gone, but he seem to have found a very talented pupil from Croatia named Dino. He almost sounds like David.

I love how husky and full his voice is... Full weight and yet agile. Quality stuff 🙂

I think of him as a baritone who is lightyears ahead of his peers, 'cause he could amaze the world with his unique ability to sing high notes with consistency, durability and a tone quality, for many many years!

I first took notice of David Coverdale's voice in 1987 when my local radio station started play the original studio version of Here I Go Again, and I was still in middle school at time. Things that come to mind for me are his killer high baritone (or tenor according to some people who disagree with me), the Led Zeppelin influence in his singing, and of course Tawny's appearances in Whitesnake's videos in the late 80s.

David Coverdale is the best singer hard rock voice all the time. He’s awesome! The bass and treble, the vocal power and especially the voice timbre. Unmistakable and addictive. You can't live without hearing it

Imaging how great a singer you are if Jimmy Page can't get Plant back but still wants to tour with Zeppelin songs, so he calls you up. Haha! That's a big endorsement. Another great video! "In the Still of the Night" is always a favorite to try and sing loudly!

I saw David once in Kyiv concert, his rolling mic stand, pointed right to his... you know, was the coolest thing I've ever seen, that day my childhood ended) end phenomenal voice of course

Whitesnake has always been my favorite band. DC is such a great singer love hid bluesy singing. Seen them live at least 25 times. Such a great performer and stage presents. one of the BEST front men of all time. WHITESNAKE 4-ever

In his prime he was incredible...1987 is still my favourite rock album. I remember watching D.C. live and he seemed to sing with every ounce of his body to smash some of those notes. Props to John Sykes too, would be interested to hear your views on John as he, like yourself, is an incredible guitar player who can sing brilliantly...🙂👍

Ken, I feel like I almost owe you an apology. Even though I have been into Hard rock and Christian Rock all my life, I even play guitar and sing, been subscribed to your channel for at least 5 years, I had never heard any of your music. My loss. The Story of Love, Living for my Lord, amazing songs. Those riffs, OMG ! Not only do you sing like a beast but your guitar playing is a giant killer! I don't like long comments so I'll end it by saying I am now and will always be a fan of your music.

The worlds best vocalist (by far) for me ❤

I heard Coverdale speak in an interview from the 70s on radio (back then) and was amazed how deep his speaking voice was. I was a DP mk3 fan through Burn before I got into the mk 2 gear like In rock, Fireball and Machine Head (always been huge fan of the Gillan era). I really liked DC's bluesy crooning type approach before he lets loose. I found a similar voice 20 years later '92 in Cornell with Sound Garden. Cornell's voice quality had a similar sound to my ears, from a similar musical inheritance. I have been hooked ever since. Not many come close to these two awesome singers.

For me, with Whitesnake, what comes to mind is the early bluesy era of 1978-82, man alive those albums and songs are still stellar examples of amazing bluesy hard-rock. I like Whitesnake all around but that was the band's best era, no doubt.

One of a my all time favorite singers, David rules!!!!

The word that comes to my mind is, THUNDER! Enjoyed the video!

I think starkers un Tokio shows His talent... in an acoustic version he shows his soul and rhym &blues style. Cover that up... Great singer

David is also one of my favorite singers of all time across genres💯 his range is incredible but for me it’s the combination of his tone and phrasing! The way he chooses to deliver certain phrases especially in that low, spoken register. Top. Tier!

This is a VOICE of rock music of all time!!!

Was looking forward for this. Will watch later. Great job Ken. 🤘

I love David Coverdale! He's definitely one of the best singers. I'm so glad I got to see Whitesnake in concert two summers ago. I really wish I could have seen them in the 80's. That woukd have been awesome. I really hope he can recover and come back next year for a summer tour. I was so excited to see Whitesnake on tour this summer but the damn flu froze everything in time. What an unfortunate event. Hopefully all the bs ends soon and we can all go back to enjoying rock concerts. I really, really hope so. I would love to see Whitesnake again. I love their music. I love seeing David Cloverdale sing and dance. He's a true rock star. ❤❤❤🎸

His my babe in another world .🥰❤️❤️❤️

One of the best rock& metal singers ever!! Loved his voice from the first time I´ve heard him. and he ´s still got it!

I just watched white snake - donnington 1990 and David Coverdale he blew me away. He didn’t even skip a note plus a band of Steve Vai, Adrian Vandenberg, Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge the best concert I’ve seen in a while on RU-vid. If you haven’t seen it take the time. I’ve never seen him seen better he was big time into it and I remember from my day the crowd helps and they were. Ok I still dig John Sykes but David Rocks.

That John Sykes solo in “Crying in the Rain” is one of my all-time favorite solos in a song. It’s so difficult, but cool sounding.

Slide it in, Slow n Easy, Love Ain't no Stranger, This Love, Judgement Day When I think of David, I think of him and Paul Rogers having the best blues rock voices we will ever hear. I am glad he had a run as the best between 1984-1991, he deserves it!! I am glad I was around to see him live 5 times during that time frame. Thank you Ken

Thanks for delivering Ken!🙏🏽

Yep stage presence. I can't even breathe watching him 💞🎤

I knew you'd have a video about him on your channel! HUGE Whitesnake fan here!

Whitesnake was so good I used to watch their videos on MTV all the time Happy Tuesday

Love seeing Doug on guitar! What a showman!

Hey Ken just wanted to give you some love, sir, and let you know that thanks to your course I have improved DRAMATICALLY in not only my singing ability, but also my screaming/heavy vocal abilities. You cover compression in a way that mixed with modern metal techniques has given me the ability to find and enhance my own voice. Much love to you, you angel of a man 🤩🤩

Great stuff! Thanks: Will def be checking out more...

David coverdale awesome singer love white snake

Call me superficial, but what comes to my mind as well as his voice, is how beautiful he is still. (Older, and just get's better with every year).

Even the early solo works in NorthWinds, like Only my soul, or early Whitesnake songs....like Don't break my heart again, Ain't no love in the heart of the city, or later works like Last note of freedom...aside all those that you've mentioned. What an amazing singer.

Young Coverdale was truly a beast on vox... pure power. A textbook power mixed voice.

He's got one of those voices as soon as you hear him you know it's him - great singer!

The Kazakh culture also helps him to be a great singer! Thanks from Kazakhstan!!

The early Whitesnake albums are really amazing. Everybody who is reading this, I really recommend you listen to those albums. Obviously the best albums are Slide It In and 1987, but the early albums are great gems to appreciate.

No Hughes in Mistreated, mate ^^ Do Jorn... Monstrous technical powerhouse! About Coverdale, his LP with Page was astounding!

He has amazing tone, that's what i like.

Some years ago I put an 80s cover band together for my 40th birthday party. Here I Go Again was one of the songs we did. We even had a female lead singer and she blitzed the high notes. Whitesnake is part of the soundtrack of my life

great work kan , at last sb shows what makes the rock stars sound so great , and you yourself you are awesome, me myself I‘ve been singing high pitched hard rock from my stomach, and finally laerned also open throat technique! my band is still at large ( this is the time ) not the american blues band , you are the. one and only real teacher cause you cover so many styles , serious ! Go on like this , the world needed sb like you to show that also rock singers have limitations and are human beings like all uf us ! Tom Grethen , luxemburg!

David Coverdale is my favorite singer!

Saw Whitesnake a couple yrs ago and with Coverdales voice and Tommy Aldridge's incredible ability ,it was a killer show

Great choice. He was one of my heroes (he is not much older than me). I love to sing and did it in many choirs. I really admired is top notes ( I can't hit them) and in my covers I had to go to falsetto to hit them. (I'm more of a bass/baritone). Thank you Ken Tamplin for bringing me back this legend and all the memories that are related.

I would say you covered the majority about David Coverdale in such a good way, I enjoy your videos. I would say also that David conveys feelings and sensations in a really good way and the content of his songs also talk about love, the great difficulty in love, pain and more... So he is in addition to being such a diverse singer also a soul singer. He is also one of favorite rock singers... I think he has a special combination in his voice ... it's like hearing Robert Planet and Ronny James Dio in one voice. If I could offer a song to sing... I would love to hear you sing "standing in the shadows of love" or "Aint gonna cry no more today". also maybe one of the songs of survivor band like: "Burning heart" or "The eye of the tiger" :) Thank u for sharing :)

My first thought, the frontman of 2 massive iconic groups. The great vocals, stage pressent is WHY he bacame the frontman. Amazing musician

I totally agree...when I was learning to sing...i learned tons of whitesnake zeppelin doors etc... Even could pull off steelheart too..but here is one that you should do ken....one of the greats...cant be duplicated...his tone is as unique as coverdale.....thats David Lee Roth. Such a one of the kind voice.

🧗‍♂️ a rock (mountain) body rocking music...yeah the engine Ken🧨thanks for reminding of the engine for singing...😊, gonna watching and listen to your versions🤙💖

His intonation. He hits the notes and rides them like a smooth wave. Wow! I'm going to practice these songs. As a Contralto, it's fun. I need to work on the smooth transition to my head voice and strengthen it. Saving for the Pro Class!

Coverdale is one of my favorites also. I think if I could sound like someone it would probably be Coverdale, Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford.

Another awesome video Mr. Tamplin. I was just watching your cover videos and wondered if you have a video on Physical Movements to help while singing. I am beginning to notice nearly all these great singers do it in one way or another. If you don't have a video specifically on this I would love to watch it! all the best

Great vid!! Reminds me of riding in my vette jamming to Whitesnake. Coverdale's voice is so unique as is your cuz!! What about an interview and couple of cousins singing together in the near future? Sammy is just so cool and sounding great as ever at 72!! As you can tell I'm a serious Red Rocker fan...yeewww!!!

What makes a great singer pure passion 💕🎤🎶❤️

Without a doubt David is one of the best hard rock/blues style vocalist of all time. Really love the early whitesnake stuff that really showed his range and bluesy style..

Love your videos Ken! I would like to suggest you doing one on Elvis Presley and use examples of his best vocal performances across multiple genres. He is arguably the most versatile male vocalist ever and could sing any genre. Also, amazing vocal storytelling and lyrical interpretation ability, very unique and instantly recognizable tone. Just an amazing vocalist. I would love to hear you comment on the first rock star's voice in detail. The king deserves it!

When David was younger. Sorry, that’s what I think about, because his voice did change. Some singers are gifted with their voices staying forever young, sadly others keep singing but not as beautiful as when in their prime. Look at 70 year old John B. Who sang in Australia it sounded wonderful or Styx, Aerosmith,that scream is as fresh as when I was 18. 🤩I just heard the Backstreet Boys on the Jimmy Fallen show, each and every one of them sounded so fresh, their voices right on point. But I got to say David was one of my favorite singers, I still have his songs.

I would be curious to hear you about Bon Scott ! Thank you for this blessed channel !

A good question for which Coverdale is a perfect subject for is this: how much does one's accent or if in cases of English as a second language, play in singing, the vocalization of certain words like say "more"? Muo're or Mewa're sounds for example. David's speaking voice is what I think of as proper British English when I hear him talk. He'd be a great narrator if this music thing doesn't pan out.

David Coverdale is a beast of a singer. For me though, I absolutely love Whitesnake. The band is made up of AMAZING musicians. This video brought back memory of high school.

Love these videos. I grew up listening to Coverdale along with skid row, AC DC, Cinderella, warrant, Aerosmith and others. Coverdale always had that unique voice and tone. Great singer Ken.

Great overview. David is also one of my all time favourite vocalists. I've also felt that he also goes to another level when he sings songs that are very powerful lyrically. The refreshed version of Restless Heart just recently released is an excellent example. Simply superb!

Soldier of Fortune. There is an unplugged version of that somewhere on YT, it's awesome.

Awesome 👍

RU-vid actually recommended one of your videos while listening to David's music, and that's how I rediscovered this channel. It amazes me how he has that deep, gritty, bluesy tone, and then he can just go up and reach those really high notes. It sounds like two totally different voices to me, but they come out of the same person. I also think he and Robert Plant sound really similar in the higher register, but they sound nothing alike in the lower register (David's voice is noticeably deeper), which I find interesting. He is certainly in the top tier of rock and metal singers all time. I think if I could have anyone else's singing voice, it would be his.

He has incredible voice and wonderful personality like you 🙂

Nailed it!!

The last note of freedom is so underrated song. Maybe cause he doesn't perform it live, but great song.

Love his old stuff too, love ain't no stranger and slide it in. I used to sing that with my old band. A voice you should profile is Ray Gillen he was singer of Badlands he passed away from Aids many years ago. Great powerfull voice similar to David Coverdale.

Best video in this series! I know I've said it before but I love DC. You did a great job with this. I do wish that you could have included Soldier Of Fortune or Blind Man because they're really underrated, but I know you can't fit every song into these videos. I would really love to hear your opinion on those songs though. As always, you are awesome!!! Thanks for giving me great videos to look forward to. It's really a treat.

Like any singer where you cannot tell the difference between his chest, mix, and head or where the breaks are, it all sounds like one voice with a limitless range. What i cannot figure out about Coverdale is how he gets that airy pitch without doing damage.

David Coverdale, I have seen him several times with Whitesnake. Great song writer, great singer (love his timing, his phrasing) and above all a top entertainer with an impressive stage presence. My "ultimate Whitesnake song" is "Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues". I have met David in person, together with Doug Aldrich. Both very approachable end David certainly very talkative! :)

David Coverdale is one the best pure rock singers of the past 50 years. I think he could have had a huge solo career like Rod Stewart, but maybe he just liked rockin' out with the boys. He still leaves a great legacy of songs though.

Was listening to some very early David Coverdale The Government found on youtube... Covers included - Does anybody know what time it is , The Letter , ect....This mans voice was so underrated.

When I think of David obviously I go straight to power vocals and awesome harmonies! I was being very patient waiting for you to cover him and yes one of my favorite singers, he's a vocal of vocalists if that makes any sense 💪. So yeah crying in the rain and the less-known kittens got claws beautiful and awesome range with power!!!

Check out the album BURN from like 1973 when he was with Deep Purple. So good!!

I'm enjoying revisiting these songs from my past, so to speak, with new "ears." I must credit you for opening my ears to how great Dio really was. I honestly never gave it much thought before discovering your channel. Also, I've always liked this singer too and have grown to respect him even more! Thanks again. xo

I've got a great story for you! As a kid, and into my teens, I really wasn't much into music at all. I had songs I liked, but I didn't connect with them in the same way that I do now. It was all pretty much superficial, never really cared to listen to the lyrics; just rocked out, ya know? Hell, my favorite song at the time was Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster" and I didn't know what the song was about; it was the intro song for NASCAR 98 for the Playstation and it just sounded fricken cool! All this changed in 2004, I was 17 years old when I discovered Whitesnake. Although, it's kind of a half-truth; because I've heard them before on the radio, but before then it just didn't stick with me. The day music changed for me was when my then girlfriend broke up with me, I was heart broken. As the day progressed I developed an ear worm, the lyrics and tune "Here I go again on my own" got stuck in my head, and that's all that would just loop in my head over and over. I got frustrated, I couldn't for the life of me figure out who it was, I didn't have a computer at the time so I hopped in my truck and drove to the library in town to look this up. It didn't take too long for me to find what I was looking for. After listening to the song a time or two I left the library and started walking back to my truck, now equipped with this knowledge. As I'm walking by my truck I pass by a thrift store and on whim I check it out. Immediately to my right was a rack of cassettes, I take a gander and it was like the music gods shined a light; because the very first cassette on the rack, very top left where I would begin my search; was the 1987 album. Once I popped that into my truck's cassette player (I had an old '76 Chevy pickup) I was hooked and have been a big Whitesnake fan ever since. In time I managed to work my way through their catalogue, from the Snakebite EP all the way to (at the time) Live in the still of the night! Although my introduction to Whitesnake was the "hair metal" era of Whitesnake, I've found myself connecting better with mostly pre-Slide it in tracks; Like "Walking in the Shadow of the Blues" being my favorite, and "Child of Babylon" and "Ain't Gonna Cry No More". I love it all! The Restless Heart record, love it; David's solo albums from before Whitesnake, and Into The Light. His work in Deep Purple and with Jimmy page. Got it! But it doesn't end there, Whitesnake opened me up to the blues in general. Hound Dog Taylor, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters.... lol You could say Whitesnake was my gateway drug!

Loved it again Ken. Man, this guys tone is insanely good. He makes women want to be with him and guys want to be him. I wish I had an ounce of that tone. Seems like a bit of gent too. Awesome Ken, thanks.

Keith Olsen, who co-produced 1989´s Slip Of The Tongue album, said that he preferred to record David Coverdale fresh from sleeping, because his voice always thins out during the day. Vocals were therefore usually done early in the morning, leaving the rest of the day for everything else.

Great stuff man!! PLEASE cover John Sykes. Both DC and Sykes really committed to not just great tone and phrasing but also to the emotional content and the passion of the piece. Great chops is always fun to listen to, but for me as a fan of these iconic artists, I believe that they perform from the gut and execute with conviction. I'll take passion over perfection all day, but these guys cover all the bases. As an example of Sykes really committing, Valley of the Kings and Jelly Roll off the first Blue Murder record are some of my favourites. I still have the urge to close the windows and crank these joints and bellow my brains out at fairly regular intervals. Thanks for the great content KT, and stay safe! :)

Very remarkable talent that will be heard and remembered for decades to come. It would be awesome to see you cover your cousins famous song 'I Can't Drive 55', I bet you would rock the heck out of that tune..hahaha,,thanks for another great upload.

Great insights on David Coverdale, he is too good yess. Steve Marriott if you could cover as well pls. Thank you.

Sweet! Thanks again, Ken. David is one of my favorites of the 70's-80's era. I think the people that consider him a Plant knockoff have only heard a couple of his tunes, because he's no more so than anybody of the era. It was nice hearing a rich baritone voice in a time of high tenors. Like Dio, it set him apart.

It's quitesad to hear David lately in live performances. Possibly needs to change his way to possibly do more acoustic type mellower songs as his lower tone still has it! Still my all time favourite vocalist, great unmistakable tone!

Bonne journée Ken Tamplin.

Coverdale's acoustic versions of some of his songs that he did for starkers in tokyo are really great. You should check them out. You can hear his voice much more clearly.

Amazing singer!!!!!! I think of 80’s balls to the wall rock music and hair bands!!!! Sound awesome blasting in my Dodge Challenger SRT8!!!!!

Thanks for this one, Ken. So David C is one of my vocal GODS. It's obvious that you're a trained singer. It's really cool how you tell us how David C does what he does. What I'm wondering is, does he know what he's doing, or does he just do it? You hear stories about legendary guitarists who "never had a lesson," so I'm wondering if a guy like David was trained, or if he just was born with that voice. Thanks and have a great night

David coverdale is awesome I love whitesnake they had a lot of great songs I never listened to him with deep purple but I did with whitesnake love here I go again is this love now you're gone great songs hes one of my favorites to my aunt made me a cd of their hits love that cd but yea he's one of the greats Ken really great 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I noticed he's bringing those keys way down as he has aged. I suppose that's to be expected. For a good change up, it would be cool to see you analyze Brian McKnight.

I also suggest what makes SRV great and what makes Jeff Healey great!!

Another great video ! Love Whitesnake ! We have some really good rock cover bands that tour our little island of Corfu in the summer , they all do whitesnake . Ken if you have time check out a uk female rock duo called Never The Bride , think you will love the vocals !

What comes to my mind about DC, a great blending technique, and a monster tone, he is one of my favorites singers too.

Awesome series, Ken!! 💯💯