Favorite Female vocalists ?

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[Zeneta]

While I have a handful or more favorites, I am curious who my fellow freepers elevate to the top of their list?

My list starts with;

Annie Lennox

Kate Bush

Tracey Thorn (Everything but the Girl)

And oddly enough

Cindi Lauper

There's soo many more.

Dolly Parton is right up there.

[smalltownslick]

Only until that stupid commercial. Most Americans know the hit version by Hank Snow.

[Fiji Hill]

This song is said to have been inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The End of the World--Skeeter Davis (1962)

[cyclotic]

I forgot Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles. She does a mind blowing cover of Yes’ Seen All Good People.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFI-4d9gPhA

[Mr. Blond]

I’ll second Amy Lee.

[Kriggerel]

A man after my own heart. :)

Did you ever see footage of Siouxsie & The Banshees playing ‘Last Beat of my Heart’ at Lollapalooza 1991?

Breathtaking.

[liberalism is suicide]

Patti Page,the Andrews Sisters,Karen Carpenter, Patsy Cline,Gogi Grant(for just one song,”The Wayward Wind”),Loretta Lynn are among my favorites.

[smalltownslick]

Good choice!!

[Fiji Hill]

I also like Vaughn De Leath's Banana Oil, a tune that's very appropriate as we go into the presidential campaign.

[Zeneta]

Two hundred and seven.

[Yaelle]

This is a fun thread to read. I like a lot of different kinds of women’s voices.
Here is my list, not in any ranking order.

Adele
Chrissy Hynde
Billie Holiday
Joan Armatrading
Carole King
Carly Simon
Joni Mitchell
Diana Ross
Tracy Chapman
Janis Jackson
Natalie Cole
Grace Slick
Stevie Nicks
Rickie Lee Jones

[HandyDandy]

Somebody should mention Joan Baez (someone other than me, i.e.)

And how about Nico from the Velvet Underground?

[Secret Agent Man]

Debbie Harry.

That’s about it.

[Leto]

I will mention a couple of women that I have not seen yet,

Chloe Matharu

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1WMUNYwUYo

Sandy Denny

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5sNPorNyME0

Billie Holiday

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jlYfaJYn5fU

[dp0622]

Wow! We need some of these in between reading about the brutal assaults on our liberty.
It’s cool seeing FReepers’ favorite female singer :)
So varied.

[Stentor]

Lucinda Williams because she sounds exactly like Jimmy Dale Gilmore.

[oblomov]

If you like Edith Piaf, you should check out Melody Prochet, who performs as “Melody’s Echo Chamber”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDyhl5GSje4

[Fiji Hill]

If she hasn't appeared already, Jackie De Shannon belongs on this thread.

So Warm (1960)

[BeadCounter]

I shouldn’t gone on the detour of this thread, so many good names have been mentioned.

I’ve heard Sissel from Norway mentioned in the first posts, she is very good.

So many fine singers out there, some songs, I did not know about and most of us know music more from our lives when so much good was before too.

[KC Burke]

Roberta Flack

[EvilCapitalist]

Cerys Matthews and Meinir Gwilym.