Oh yes many times, when I started out I got a really bad review that called me a wannabe Tori Amos (hands down total respect for her, I found her to be really super interesting, and also made me discover Kate Bush (hands down for innovation) but I knew not much of her work at that moment. I also get lots of Enya and Loreena MacKennit and same, kudos to them for making New Age mainstream, but in true honest I listened to very few sung music when I was a child... I was more into film music and scores (Jerry Goldsmith, Trevor Jones, Bruce Broughton, well so many), also early synthetizer (Vangelis, Jarre, Eno). My favourite band is Tears for Fears, but I have a weakness for male voices when sung music (Bowie, Sting...) and of course you know I like Mike Oldfield too. About female vocalists I really love Liz Fraser from Cocteau Twins but well if you don't know her, believe me she's unique and impossible to imitate hahah :) I was not a singer to start with, I was the shy composer/keyboardist that ended up singing, and honestly I love singing now but I just did the way it was intuitive for me. Orzabal (from Tears for Fears) was a heavy influence honestly.