music Your favourite female vocalists, please!

[Thunderchild 875]

@@decoherence, Wow, never heard of Basia before. What a different voice-I'm impressed.

I'll definitely be checking out more of her work-thanks for sharing.

[Esk 201]

Norah Jones and Lily Allen are just two of my favorites.

Lily has the "voice of an angel, mouth of a sailor" thing going on, along with stinging satirical lyrics. Jones has this gentle raspiness to her voice and a smooth, sophisticated tone of her songs that make her music perfect for easy listening.

Here's one of my favorites for each of them:

[Dusty Soul 2,611]

Ann Wilson (Heart)- Awesome voice, that's just as powerful today as it was back when Heart started.

Alecia Beth Moore (P!nk)- I know she's more of a mainstream pop artist and I really don't like mainstream pop, but one can't deny she has a killer voice.  Another thing I like about her is that she doesn't lip sync during performances.  "I hear there's a debate over whether or not I sang live on grammies. I have never lip synched in my entire life. I'm 100% against it,"  (Though she could be lying.)  Pretty good anyways.

Joan Jett (Runaways)- Great raspy voice, and great songs.  

Lita Ford(Runaways)- just great.

Amy Lee

Aretha Franklin

Pat Benatar 

[Lunatic Cake 1,618]

I will decide on Tsukiko Amano as my favorite female vocalist - first time I heard her voice was in the ending of Fatal Frame 2 - which, I have to admit, made me cry, it was simply beautiful.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GzHFSmccFQ

[Bucky McGillyCuddy 956]

The singer form the band Evanescence, her voice is pretty amazing.

Creeping in my Soul was one of the first songs to hit 1000 plays in my iTunes library. From the band Cryoshell.

Japanese rock band Jinn has a female lead singer who sings one of my favourite non-English songs.

Edited October 4, 2013 by Bucky_McGillycuddy

[Winterbass 763]

 

There's only one female vocalist I really enjoy listening to, and that's Otep Shamaya. I like her because she's a great singer, not to mention she's good-looking and her dressing style is really awesome. Unlike others, she just does whatever the hell she wants, and she's damn good at it too.

 

Just check her out! You might not like the music, but I dare you to say she isn't talented at what she does.

 

Edited October 5, 2013 by Winterbass

[Flying Space Badger 84]

People already mentioned Amy Lee and Ann Wilson, so here, have something else.

 

Loreena McKennitt is a phenomenal composer, singer, and instrumentalist.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Y-VBD0kRI

[Vermillion 613]

Chlo Edwards the lead vocalist from the hardcore/post hardcore band "Vales"

im not sure why its just the type of music i like and she's the only female singer in this genre that i know

[FaZe Vinyl 521]

A couple of people stand out to me

 

Jen Ledger (Skillet)

 

Yes, I know she is primarily a drummer, but she can sing, too.

 

 

Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXTLQ4k8JXk

 

 

 

Other ones that come to mind include Jennifer Nettles, the lead singer of the Band Perry, and the lead singer of Flyleaf

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,242]

The two that immediately go into my mind are Tarja Turunen and Floor Jansen. Tarja is a former vocalist for Night wish who is now solo. Floor is the former vocalist for After Forever and the current vocalist for Night wish (lead that is).

 

For a good representation of how they sound, here is one of my favorite songs of all time, Ghost Love Score, performed by Nightwish with each of these two singers:

 

With Tarja:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8e2hMAL6c

 

With Floor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3brcfttchzA

 

Saying which one I like better here is difficult as they both have their own style but Jansen extremely caught me off guard here. I have others that I like but that song put them over the top for me.

[Blue Moon 6,341]

I can't believe I forgot this in my previous post, but I'm also a huge fan of Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir of Of Monsters and Men. She is such a great singer (well, to me), and I just love her voice; it's so pretty.

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

Bjork

 

/thread

 

Anyways as for me, I don't listen to that many female vocalists but there are some that I like:

Kat Katz

Reba Meyers

Karin Dreijer Andersson

Kelli Dayton

Beth Gibbons

Skye Edwards

Alice Glass

Kathleen (Coppola) Stubelek

Laura Pleasants

Jarobe (how could I have forgotten her before?)

 

And there's more but that's just off the top of my head

Edited November 7, 2013 by Moog the Kvlt

[Lyrafinish 72]

Ariana Grande- (Honeymoon Avenue, Piano, The Way (Spanglish,) Almost is Never Enough)

 

Avril Lavigne- When you're gone

 

Marina and the Diamonds- (I am not a Robot, Primadonna Girl, How to be a Heartbreaker

Edited November 7, 2013 by Lyrafinish

[Lagom 204]

Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine is without doubt my favorite right now. 

[)O( Scarlet )O( 1,259]

1. Enya

2. Sinead Lohan

3. Sinead O'Connor

4. Tiddas (all female group)

5. The Waifs (pretty sure they're an all female group too)

6. Indigo Girls

Edited November 24, 2013 by Dust Storm

[MorningFlash 214]

Hayley Williams and lately Lorde has been quite high on my list also.

[Denim&Venöm 18,541]

I'm a fan of Alyssa White-Gluz, formerly of The Agonist, has done some work with Kamelot, and now sings in Arch Enemy. 

 

I enjoy Brittney Hayes of Unleash the archers.

 

I'm also a fan of Lzzy Hale from Halestorm, Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil, Annette Olson formerly of Nightwish, Marta Gabriel of Crystal Viper, Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation, Elise Ryd of Amaranthe, Noelle of Damone, & Haley Williams of Paramore. 

Edited July 12, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Detritus 258]

My taste in music is probably incompatible with most people here, but I'll post a few of my favorites anyway.
 
 
Arlene Smith and the Chantels:
 

 
 
Rosie Hamlin of Rosie and the Originals:
 

 
 
Barbara Jean English and the Clickettes:

 

 

 

 

[Randimaxis 8,652]

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

Patrice Rushen.

Beyoncé.

Rihanna.

Azealia Banks.

M.I.A.

Ciara.

 

[FullmoonDagger 200]

I really like Maria Brink from the band "In this moment" She sings really good and she's really pretty in my opinion

[Dreambiscuit 9,556]

Margaret Whiting

Eydie Gorme

Janis Orenstein

Bonnie Herman

Olivia Newton John

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

Aysel & Arash with Always

 

[BritishBrony2012 792]

Does Hatsune Miku count?

 

And members of Babymetal, they all singers.

Edited June 12, 2016 by Adam Burt

[Radiance64 7,053]

Emi Evans

Best known for her work on the Nier OST and a couple other games, and also has a synth duo called Freesscape that makes more amazing music. She is a goddess.

https://youtu.be/lNDqeqvK7JA

 

https://youtu.be/gtFBh_dXaYs