Tori Amos
Nerina Pallot
The Cranberries
Kate Bush
Heart
Suzanne Vega
Bangles
Blondie
Sheryl Crow
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One I forgot from my list
- Eleanor McEvoy
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Some more I thought of
Maddy Prior
Julie Fowlis
Maggie Reilly
Barbra Streisand
Enya
Faye Heald
Minnie Ripperton
And I’m adding on
June Tabor
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Throw a few favourite bands in with female lead vocals:
Heart
Curved Air
Stone the Crows
Babe Ruth
Blondie
Siuoxsie and the Banshees
Cocteau Twins
Everything But the Girl
The Secret Sisters
Pink Martini
Wailin’ Jennys
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Susannah Hoffs… for a slightly different reason…
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Susan Tedeschi
Joni Mitchell
Amy Winehouse
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Pat Benatar, a favourite since the 80’s
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I love Natalie Merchant and Kate Bush like so many others have mentioned.
I’ll add Denise Johnson
I would say the list so far needs a a better representation of Soul though.
PP Arnold
Candi Staton
Roberta Flack
Tammi Terrell
Dusty
Debbie Taylor
Doris Troy
Barbara Jean English
Susan Phillips
Alice Clark
Diana Ross (pre disco)
Gladys Knight
Minnie Ripperton
Etta James
Rosetta Hightower
Some of my favourites
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I already mentioned Sade, and with a gentle poke from @Chime101, I’ll also suggest Denise Johnson, the voice of Primal Scream and much of the Manchester music scene too.
Sadly missed, Denisey.
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Diamanda certainly has one helluva voice!
My only longterm experience is with Litanies, granted, but from what lttle I’ve heard on YT, she is near one-of-a-kind…
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Sheryl Crow
Taken by Trees (Victoria Bergsman?)
Joan Jett
So many great female vocalists, too little time to listen to them all. A few are:
Ella Fitzgerald
Melody Gardot
Diana Krall
Eva Cassidy
Laila Biali
Kandace Springs
Claire Martin
Halie Loren
Sophie Milman
Sade
Molly Johnson
Cassandra Wilson
Lizz Wright
Norah Jones
Madeleine Peyroux
Randy Crawford
Nnenna Freelon
Elaine Elias
Roberta Gambarini and so many more.
They all make listening such a pleasure.
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I don’t think any of these that I have paid a fair bit recently have been listed yet:
Tarja Turunen
Rachel Jones (Karnataka)
Heather Findley (Mostly Autumn)
Candice Night (Blackmore’s Night)
I think there’s no more than about half a dozen of those that others have listed so far that I ever listen to (knowingly anyway - I don’t know the names of the singers oc every band I listen to)
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- Kate Bush
- Sandy Denny
- Tori Amos
- Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)
- Suzanne Vega
- Patti Smith
- June Tabor
- Ann Wilson (Heart)
- Florence Welch (Florence & The Machine)
- Shirley Manson (Garbage)
- Alison Goldfrapp (Goldfrapp)
- Amy Lee (Evanescence)
- Floor Jansen (Nightwish)
Thats enough, there…
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My top ten,
Tori Amos
Kate Bush
Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins)
Debbie Harry
Lorde
Julianne Regan (All About Eve)
Sonya Madan (Echobelly)
Alanis Morisette
Kate Pierson/Cindy Wilson (B52’s)
Dolores O’Riordan (Cranberries)
Nick
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Bobbie Gentry
Alison Goldfrapp
Ese Okorodudu & Sheena Ross
Karen Carpenter
Minnie Riperton
Erykah Badu
Aretha Franklin
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Nice.
I need to name check Sheena more…she adds such a glorious spice to The Vooduu People.
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Ella Fitzgerald,
Jennifer Warnes,
Ricki Lee Jones
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Sheila Chandra, who now has a burning mouth syndrome.
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