The top women artists solo EVER

Phil.K

[Jakarta ex-pat]

OK. So which female artists NOT associated with duo, group etc would make your top 10. Here's mine..in no particular order

[fieldmarshaldj]

...and Miss Ketty Lester.

[Fiji Hill]

I heard Janet Vogel perform with the skyliners in Washington, DC in 1979, shortly before her death. I also met Dodie Stevens at a party at the home of a rock and roll historian.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Yes, Brightman is very talented, and pretty. Your wife sounds like a great talent too!

[Let's Roll]

Second all votes for Patsy Cline and Connie Francis.

[CSM]

I need to get “Comfortably Numb!”

[varon]

Celine Dion

Ditto

[Apogee]

Kate Wolf, nanci Griffith.
not pop, but good.

[Grammy]

Alison Krauss is awesome. I am surprised no one has added

Linda Ronstadt or
Wynonna

[dfwgator]

Laura Nyro’s “Wedding Bell Blues” was a hit in Southern California in December of 1966, but doesn’t seem to have caught fire anywhere else. Her version is superior to the Fifth Dimension’s, which came out about three years later and went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Yeah, but I had the biggest schoolboy crush on Marilyn McCoo.

[camle]

Annie Halsam of Renaissance. while Pavoratti was lauded for a four actave range, Annie has a FIVE octave range

[T Minus Four]

Karen Carpenter could out-sing anyone

It's true, although I don't enjoy her sugary-sweet genre.

[T Minus Four]

Linda Ronstadt

[irishtenor]

She, my wife, was asked to sing at the Kennedy Center on Memorial day 2011. We are looking to see if we can do it.

[T Minus Four]

Grace Slick

Ann Wilson

(I KNOW I’m cheating)

[fish hawk]

Can't believe I got all the way down to post 33 before seeing Ann Murry. Bravo. I like your list as the best so far but may I add Wynonna Judd.

[Fiji Hill]

Is Vera Lynn mentioned in one of Pink Floyd’s tracks from “The Wall?”

That's the same Vera Lynn. She launched a string of hits in England in 1935 and finally made the US charts in 1948. She was performing in public as late as 1995. In March she will turn 93.

[T Minus Four]

"Ann Murray"

I thought of her too. She could sing the phone book. Not AMAZING but very pure.

[latina4dubya]

Alanis Morissette

there is a video on YOUTUBE of her singing live the song UNINVITED from City of Angels... it's haunting... her performance is fantastic... all she is doing is standing there singing--no running around the stage or anything like that... yet, she's mesmerizing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjTB6EG3xGo

[Betis70]

Mine are influenced by all the latin music I listen to (alpha order):

Alison Krauss
Ana Gabriel
Aretha Franklin
Enya
Lola Beltran
Maria Callas
Norah Jones
Patsy Cline
Sarah Brightman
Whitney Houston

[T Minus Four]

You left out Yoko Ono

OK you! I hit the abuse button on that one, LOL!

I bet you think I'm kidding :-)