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.

[Zeneta]

Gillian Welch !!!

I love her to death.

So honest.

Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss sing their song from “Oh Brother where art though”

A field hollar ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1wZVVMKojw

[Fiji Hill]

"Les Trois Cloches" reminds me of my father. Like Jean-Francois Nicot, the protagonist in the song, he was born in a community at the bottom of a valley in western Colorado, far from highways and population centers (Village au fond de la valle, loin des chemins, loin des humains), and he also passed away on a starry night.

[NorthstarMom]

Adele
The singer from Lady Antebellum

[twyn1]

Definitely Eva Cassidy is #1 for me — also Karen Carpenter — Linda Rondstat (a shame she’s a looney-bin) — and Pink

[Zeneta]

Basia Trzetrzelewska

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I’m only listening now because she’s Polish.

[BwanaNdege]

You are most welcome. I have a collection of notes to myself regarding great sermon illustrations hidden in Pop Songs. This is one of the best.

Another great one is in Bonnie Tyler’s - Total Eclipse of the Heart

[Zeneta]

I have a collection of notes to myself regarding great sermon illustrations hidden in Pop Songs.

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My list is in my head.

Is Jethro Tull on your list?

[topsail]

Wynona Judd of The Judds

Mary Black, (Farewell, Farewell) Irish.

[Loud Mime]

You have a winner

[xp38]

Mado Robin. She is a bit freakish but a phenomenon to say the least. She llved from 1918 to 1960. RIP

[jobim]

Billy Holiday
Sarah Vaughan
Ella Fitzgerald
Judy Carne
Aretha Franklin
Astrud Gilberto
Minnie Ripperton
Dionne Warwick
Ana Caram
Lani Hall

[Skooz]

Rickie Lee Jones

Maria McKee

Diana Krall

Bessie Smith

[Zeneta]

Minnie Ripperton, Loving You

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kind of a gay song, but her range is awesome.

[Rembrandt]

Ella Fitzgerald...nobody else is close.

[Zeneta]

three hundred and fifty plus and still going.

Just so everybody understands.

I have accused bp0622, on a number of threads as being, well, less than honest. Less than a true Conservative.

Maybe it’s me, but....

We will see.

I’m willing to play this out if for only entertainment purposes.

I MAY BE WRONG.

[Salamander]

Ann Wilson
Grace Slick
Lita Ford
Janis Joplin

[Zeneta]

OK, SO, Grace slick keeps coming up, but Lita Ford ?

Drop dead sexy as all get out !!!

A top female vocalist?

[Irish Eyes]

Billie Holliday, glad someone finally chimed in there.

I am glad also that someone mentioned her. Can not believe I did not. She has always been one of my very favorites.

[OldCountryBoy]

Ann Wilson of Heart.

[dfwgator]

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned Nurse Dixie, Julie London.