OK then. Favourite female vocalists…

Hmmm I struggle with this one.

Liza Minelli.
Janis Joplin.
Sam Brown.

Joni Mitchell
Regina Spector
Melanie if this was a trump it'd be top trump

K T Tunstall

Randy Crawford
Corinne Bailey Rae
Grace Jones
Carly Simon
Sade

oh Sam Brown – good call

and Ruby Turner

V V Brown and the Irish Girl from the Beautiful South (don't know her name). Sang I Need A Little Time. Lovely voice.

polly jean harvey
bjork
kim deal

Oh yes – Ruby Turner.

sarah machlachlan
tori amos

Natascha Khan from Bat for Lashes
Kate Bush Circa Sensual World
Kate Rusby
Cara Dillon
Tracey Chapman
Julianne Regan

Sam Brown, saw her with Floyd (Pink, not Keith)& Jools, along with Ruby Turner.
But Amy W(h)inehouse?? Naa.

Etta James + 1
Regina Spektor + 1

Joan Baez – don't like all the music, but her voice is effortless.

Anette Olzen

Doro

Stevie Nicks

Grace Slick +3
Siouxsie Sioux

I saw Siouxsie on Sky Arts HD a few weeks ago with her new band. doing mostly Banshees stuff, mostly good but Spellbound was absolutely awful – flat & slow. New stuff was fine though

only Ahu for me these days

lot easier for blokes to identify female vocalists they like I see.

Anistasia
Cheryl Crow
Christina Aguilaria
Annie Lenox
Debbie Harry
Joss Stone
Heather Small
Jamelia

I could go on and on

Ok, what happened just then? it disappeared

I stepped in

for your own good.

Karin Dreijer Andersson. superbly weird.

Bjork
Alice Russell
Tori Amos
Nina Simone
Ella Fitzgerald
Alison Krauss
Beth Orton
Sia Furler
Kathryn Williams

Mariah Carey
Natalie Imbruglia
Shakira
Beyonce
Tina Cousins
Alesha Dixon

Most of them are favourites for reasons other than their singing talents….

DezB Was it rudey doody? If that was the thread I posted a pic of Wendy O’Williams on, I’m not suprised really. Did someone turf it up to cause trouble?.

Cara Dillon – obviously, all depends on if you like folk music. A truly stunning voice.

Kate Rusby
Michelle Shocked

Did someone turf it up to cause trouble?.

Reckon so.

About as pointless as resurrecting this one, really.

Fay Hield

Pj Harvey
Shirley Manson
Hazel O’connor

Nobody’s mentioned the great Cerys Matthews yet.
Mairead ni Mhaonaigh (Altan)
Christine McVie
Mary Coughlan

Chan Marshall.

Pretty much been said by others, but I’m of this generation

Judie Tzuke
Aretha Franklin
Christine McVie

Only one not yet mentioned was Lucia Popp

Carina Round (live anyway, her recorded stuff doesn’t quite capture it)
Jesca Hoop

Debbie Harry
Hazel O Connor
Toyah

Julie Fowlis, Karen Matheson.

dinah carrol
alison moyet (yazoo)
beth gibbons (portishead)

Tarja Turunen
Sharon Den Adel

Emmylou Harris
Patty Griffin*
Maria McKee*
Aimee Mann*
Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman)*
Gemma Hayes*
Emily Hayes
The Indigo Girls
The Dear Janes*
Bjork
The Wailin’ Jennies*
Tori Amos
Kate Bush
Kris Delmhorst*
Kate Rusby*
The Bangles
Blake Hazard* (The Submarines)
Heidi Talbot*
Emiliana Torini*
Eddi Reader*
Laura Marling
Lauren Goss (Mechanical Bride)
Juanita Stein (Howling Bells)
Tanya Donelly
Keren Ann
Emma Pollock
Sally Ellison (Hem)
Ritzy (The Joy Formidable)*
Katherine Blamire/Jessica Davies (The Smoke Fairies)
Cerys Matthews*
Joni Mitchell
Shawn Colvin
Janis Ian*
Inara George
Thea Gilmore*
Karine Polwart*
Shelby Lynn
Nina Persson
Alison Goldfrapp
Sam Phillips
Natalie Merchant
Dusty Springfield
Sandy Denny
Karen Carpenter
Feist
(* indicates those I’ve met)

2nd Vote for Eve Libertine.

All together now: “Shaved women collaboraaatoooooors!!!!”

I can definitely say that my friend Lucy is by far the best singer I have ever heard. She may be my friend, but she just has the most amazing voice.

http://www.myspace.com/pilgrimswaymusic/music/songs/handweaver-and-factory-maid-74450273

+2 Gillian Welch