Wow, I haven't really thought about it much. I know my favorite musical artist is Minori Chihara, and my two favorite composers are Junpei Fujita (the person who composes much of Minori Chihara's BGM, also composed some music for games such as Wild Arms XF) and Kenji Ito (composed the music to the SaGa game series and some of the Seiken Densetsu/Mana games) I wouldn't know how to rank them though, since they're all great artists in their own way. Elisa and Nobuo Uematsu would be up there too. I guess I should do it like this:

Most impressive composer: Kenji Ito
Best all-around composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Best voice: Elisa
Favorite all-around performer/composer: Minori Chihara / Junpei Fujita

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