What makes you like the music that you like? What is it that catches your attention, what touches your heart, stomach, spine? For me, it's often a voice.

The first time I fell in love with a voice, or at least the first time I realized that I did, was in my early teens, and the vocal cords that caused my affection belonged to the late and great Freddie Mercury. Freddie's voice was light and sweet. It made my ears fly. It didn't take too long before I developed similar feelings towards...