worse entertainer or performer of all time??

A lot of possibilities . . .

Kenny G
Celine Dion
Barry Manilow

Florence Foster Jenkins, the dowager soprano. Thank God she had money and could rent her own halls and promote herself, instead of inflicting herself on others.

Yoko is certainly cut from the same cloth, but Mrs. Jenkins delusions were even more self created.

Milli Vanilli, I mean, getting caught lipsynching to somebody else's voice? THat's 0 for 2

Jeffb28451
Excellent I remember reading about her in a book called strange and peculiar people. One Newsweek critic once noted ,"she sounds as if she was afflicted with a low, nagging backache."

I think the 80s were a low water mark for truly bad performers. . .the recording industry and radio had made the evolution of music as product.

Think about popular radio in the 70s--on a single station you'd hear Elton John (Pure Pop), The Spinners (Soul), Led Zeppelin (Rock), Jimmy Buffet (Country Caribbean), Simon & Garfunkel or just Simon (Folk Pop). In order to get played you had to compete not just in your genre but with all the others as well.

By the 80's format radio had emerged. There was (IMHO) a land grab and there wasn't enough music to go around--therefore, demand created a vacuum that sucked up plenty of "artists" that would not have made it if they had to compete in the broader "rock" or "pop" categories, etc.

I came of age in the 80s and there are plenty of extraordinary artists, like Elvis Costello, the Police, Steve Forbert, etc. But this era gave serious airtime to acts like Banarama, Kim Carnes, et al. But I have to say the one that absolutely grates on my nerves to no end is a guy named Corey Hart (Sunglasses at Night). This screech was at least as bad as Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights when he was cutting a track (great scene) to launch his musical career.