Most of my top 5 have been mentioned here already..


Here's one that hasn't. Lucy Rose. I love her vibrato, but I just wish that she'd belt it out sometimes..

=

MikeM wrote: Most of my top 5 have been mentioned here already..


Here's one that hasn't. Lucy Rose. I love her vibrato, but I just wish that she'd belt it out sometimes..

Like! Thanks for sharing!

I really love that track. So cool being set in the park, and I laugh everytime I hear the kid scream towards the end

Thought I'd jump on the video bandwagon too. Just to showcase my lesser known favourite female artists ?

Ani Difranco - Two Little Girls

=

Regina Spektor - 20 Years of snow

=

Mine would be:

Shirley Manson (Garbage)
Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil)
Janis Joplin
Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering)
Kimberly Goss (Sinergy)

I'm not impressed with you lot... there are a few up here that I like, must it be top5?

Tarja Turunen (ex Nightwish)
Francois Hardy
Sarah Brightman
Dolores whatever Cranberries
Simone Simon - Epica
Charlotte Wessels - Delain

Chrissie Hind
Eva Cassidy
Sharlene Spiterri
Jewel
Cesara Evoria

Anne Wilson (Heart)
Stevie Nicks
Chrissy Hynde (Pretenders)
Alanis Morisette
Kate Bush

I also used to love (for pure pop sensibility and the way she could make a backing vocal serve the song), Lorraine MacIntosh from my 80s guilty pleasure - Deacon Blue:

=

deefstes wrote: =

I'm judging you for this... much better with the sound off.

rory block - great, great blues singer & guitarist........


=


if i can post a non-guitar player - vienna teng is a superb singer / songwriter on piano....

=



ok - so it's not a single singer. it's a band. but they do call the song "one voice" (i've gone for the video which is not a video because of the audio quality)

=


another one from a group - the late great kate & anna mcgarrigle


=


one i first heard at the steak & ashes. gemma ray sings great, & plays a very, very cool guitar


=

oh dear - i'm going to overrun a little - but often overlooked because of tuck's great gutar - patti cathcart andress is a great singer:

=


& one last one - i love margaret becker's tone, control & emotion.

=

Luc wrote: Thought I'd jump on the video bandwagon too. Just to showcase my lesser known favourite female artists ?

Ani Difranco - Two Little Girls

=

Regina Spektor - 20 Years of snow

=

Spektor...what is she referring to by 'snow', she looks a little wasted.............imo

=
[/quote]
Spektor...what is she referring to by 'snow', she looks a little wasted.............imo
[/quote]

Im pretty sure whatever you are thinking about the 'snow' is correct although she is Russian so you never know, and she is a very strange and quirky girl, but thats why I like her music, slightly against the grain type of stuff.

Luc wrote: Im pretty sure whatever you are thinking about the 'snow' is correct although she is Russian so you never know, and she is a very strange and quirky girl, but thats why I like her music, slightly against the grain type of stuff.

Reading the lyrics to that song I can't see how "snow" is, in this case, a symbol for white powder that you ingest via your nose. It seems to be a metaphor for purity of spirit, for virtue.

Reminds me of Canned Heat's 'Amphetamine Annie' who was always shoveling snow ?

I found myself enjoying a beer in a remote pub this afternoon. In the background was the sweetest female vocals on some song I remembered well.
Although I was never a fan, I had heard my mother enjoying that and the name came to me without much ado... Nana Mouskouri.
What a sweet and lovely voice I thought... no wonder my mother enjoyed it so.

My own growing years were...

Stevie Nicks ( I still get goosebumps )
Nancy Wilson (who also plays a mean guitar and just happens to be very pretty)
Karen Carpenter (Why did you have to leave?)
Bonnie Raitt (who also played the guitar better than many a dude)
Natalie Merchant (Never particularly liked 10000 Maniacs but I really like her vocal style)

Anne Wilson

=

2) Adele
3) Pink
4) Tracey Chapman
5) Kate Bush

Here's a fine singer - Alison Moorer - in action.

flatfourfan wrote: Anne Wilson

=

+1
Anne Wilson - flippin' brilliant voice.. :yup:

Here's my 5 favourite vocalists

Norah Jones
Tori Amos
Dianne Krall
Regina Spektor
Leona Lewis

Which differs quite a bit from my 5 favourite female artist list mind you....

Norah Jones
Sherryl Crow
Tracy Chapman
Katie Melua
KT Tunstall