Your Top 5 Female Singers - Ever!

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When recently updating my music collection I noticed just how strongly female artists feature. I know that gay men are hugely influenced by lady warblers. So...

WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FEMALE SINGERS OF ALL TIME? (in order or not)

Feel free to say why they appeal to you. Here's mine...

1. KATE BUSH (original)
2. NINA SIMONE (velvet soul. honest)
3. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD (white soul for reals)
4. MADONNA (ultimate pop queen. live forever)
5. AMY CRACKHOUSE (new guilty pleasure. soon dead, probably, sadly) :frown1:

THIS IS OPEN TO ALL; GAY, STR8, BI, WHATEVER...!
 
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oh lawdy don't get me started on female vocalists

1. aretha franklin (power, improvisation, range, control, riffs, soul, emotion)
2. fantasia (tone, gospel squals, inprovication, scats/runs, range, emotion)
3. billie holiday (delicate, communicatory, beautiiful subtlety)
4. mary j. blige (range, ability to mimick instruments, emotion, improv)
5. janis joplin (power, range, ability to sing chords, emotion, rocknroll)
 

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Top Five Female Singers

1. Gladys Knight. I have heard her perform live and she REALLY can sing a song and make it her on. Very laidback. Her vocal phrasing on the melodies is amazing. Earthy...and soulful.

2. Diana Ross and the Supremes. Those girls really were great. If it were not for them. There'd be no Destiny's Child. No TLC. Or any girl group.

3. Olivia Newton-John. She could sing the alphabet and you would know it was her.

4. Chaka Khan. Funky. Sassy. Soul. Exhilaring.

5. The Ladies from CHIC. Disco wouldn't be disco without those girls singing Good Times. Le Freak.
 

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1. Stevie Nicks
2. Siouxsie Sioux
3. Bjork

Best
1. Whitney Houston
2. Mariah Carey
3. Celine Dion
 

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Leontyne Price. And I hate opera; even so, she's so amazing that I'll listen. The sheer (but impeccably controlled) power and purity of her voice will make you weep in awe. If you can't bring yourself to buy a disc, try previewing one at a music store listening kiosk. You have never heard a voice like this.

And despite the fact that I hate her politics, Barbra Streisand. Back in the day, she could put a chill down your spine when she hit the highs.

It's a shame that all we're really discussing is voices that have been recorded, since recording with any kind of decent fidelity has only been around for a very short time. Who knows what talent we've missed over the centuries?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontyne_Price
 
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I'll throw Grace Slick (Seattle Wrecking Ball) and Pat Benatar in the mix.

Just a bunch on this list and it doesn't list some of the one's others have mentioned. I don't have just five, unfortunately this informal poll isn't like basketball where we pick the best starting 5 to ever play the game.

Best Female Singer of All Time - Top Ten List
 

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Being a hard rocker, there aren't too many female vocalists who I feel really do well in the genre. I'm not relaly prepared to list a top 5, but I will say that I LOVE Ann Wilson from Heart.

I'm prolly about 95% gay/5% straight when it comes to vocalists; I just prefer men. But Ann Wilson is fucking awesome. And Heart is easily my favorite "girl band" ever, a label I truly detest.

EDIT: Transformer's list reminded me of Sarah Brightman. She's definitely one of my favorites. And I will say that I relly do love Amy Lee's voice...I just loathe her/Evanescence's music. Christina Aguilera is awesome...I think this list will slowly expand.

Aretha and soul/gospel never really did it for me, but I love Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz singers.

Oh yeah, and Dolores O´Riordan from the Cranberries

And Natalie Merchant
 
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1 Whitney Houston
2 Gladys Knight
3 Patty labelle
4. Rhinna- just because I think her album was actually good
5. Mariah Carey- old school Mariah Carey

 
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Mahalia Jackson
Nina Simone
Ella Fitzgerald
Alison Krauss
Joni Mitchell

A few I hated to leave out -

Barbra Streisand
Eva Cassidy
Mavis Staples
Gladys Knight

One you probably never heard of -

Ellen McIlwaine (whom also plays some of the sickest slide guitar ever)

Shit. I forgot the youtube phenom Esmee. She probably deserves some kind of prize for most unique ascent.
 
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I'll name 5 that I like (in no particular order because favourites change depending on my mood).
PJ Harvey
Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star)
Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins)
Julee Cruise
Oh my! Excellent choice, Yorkie! :smile:

I would add Margo Timmins, Chrissie Hynde, Lisa Fischer, Tori Amos, Teena Marie
 

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surprised Madonnas not mentioned more here...

she's more of an entertainer than a vocalist. her voice is really thin and weak and she's a "singer" in the smallest sense of the word

HONORABLE MENTIONS

sade (subtlety, class)
kelly clarkson (range, tone)
beyonce (lord everything, tone, control, lung-power she can sing 14, 15 second runs)
pat benetar
patti labelle (no one sings a high C better than she)
 
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