Favourite Female Vocalists

I don't have much female artist songs in my collection, but I'm mostly an instrumental rock guy.

I love what Paula Cole does with her voice. She seems to have a good range and she uses varying tones and off-pitch stuff to great effect.

I love Allanah Miles' "Black Velvet" too but that's the only song of hers I know.

I'd love to find some velvet-y jazz singers, with husky, sexy smokiness, sort of like what Paula Cole does in "Feelin' Love". What a sexy song.
 
I'd say Bjork, Billie Holiday, and Janis Joplin
 
Valmar said:
Throwing some love to the Metal crowd:

Liv Kristine (Leaves' Eyes), Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation), Charlotte Wessels (Delain), and the female vocalist that I would not like to annoy in anyway, Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy).

Always preferred the sound of female voices, something about the musicality of it I guess.
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I've got a good one for you... Angelica Vargas in Flames of Fury. Check her out...

http://www.reverbnation.com/flamesoffury
 
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Joni Mitchell

Michelle N'Deocello

Bonnie Raitt

Tania Maria

Natalie Cole

Imogen Heap

Flora Purim


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I love so many of them. Here are some of mine:

  • Ella Fitzgerald - nice to see her listed a few times
  • Billie Holiday - Like Ella, nice to see her listed
  • Diana Krall
  • Nancy Wilson (jazz singer - not from Heart)
  • Dinah Washington
  • Bessie Smith
  • Carmen McCrae
  • Diane Schuur
  • Elaine Elias
  • Patti Austin
  • Sarah Vaughn
  • Chaka Khan
  • Alison Krauss
  • Ann Wilson (Heart)
 
Shania Twain (have to put my future ex-wife first)
Pat Benatar
Barbra Streisand
Donna Summer
Celine Dion
Stevie Nicks
Amy Lee
Karen Carpenter
Olivia Newton-John
Roberta Flack
Chaka Khan
Kim Walker-Smith - Jesus Culture
Amy Grant
Natalie Grant
Jennifer Ledger - Skillet
Dawn Michele - Fireflight
Nicole C. Mullen
 
My new favorite is Carla Morrison. She sings in Spanish, but go take a listen to the song "Eres Tu." She's an angel.
 
Jen Ledger, great Skillet vocalist and drummer.
 
Linda Perry - Angelic

Janis Joplin - Smoky

Linda Ronstadt - Smooth

Robert Plant - Screamin' Monkey
 
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