The Greatest Female Vocalist ever?

scrumhalf

Linda Ronstadt.
Grace Slick.

And this person:

maltingsaudio

Didn't Minnie Ripperton have 6 Octaves ? and last year there was some internet thing about a Lady who could harmonise with herself if memory serves.

Maggie Bell, Maggie Reilly, Karen Carpenter, Mary Black, Sonja Kristina,that bird from Clannad oh the list goes on it all depends on context although your Greatest Female vocalist will always have been the one that affected you most in a live performance so for me Stevie Nicks Fleetwood MAc Wembley Empire Pool '79 (or was it 80?)

richardhomer

breakstuff said:

SimonC said:

Sam Brown for me.
Really sad what happened with her lost voice.

Never knew she'd lost her singing voice.Just Googled it.That's really sad,she was a great singer.

Yet Madonna seems to have no trouble at all....

Where's the justice in that?

goldtop

Karen Carpenter for beauty through simplicity. No artifice, no unnecessary decoration, just tone.

But I really want to say Clare Torry for that song.

Edited to add, that I forgot Ofra Hazar:

IvisonGuitars

Tina Turner - The Ike & Tina Years - Outstanding.

fendergibson

I'm going in no particular order ;

Karen Carpenter
Joni Mitchell
Carole King
Dolly Parton
Emmylou Harris
Sade
Charlotte Church !

I listen to a lot of Dance/Trance stuff too and there are some fantastic female vocalists who sadly will never reach the pinnacles of the above mentioned....

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

Octafish said:

NotNowJohn said:

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

I do remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day!

Just got a new album out! It's a bloody long career. 

100.  Not sure if that's her 100th album or just her age.

(Come to think of it she may well have more than 100 albums, but most of them would be rereleases/repackagings of the same few recordings) 

Don't know for certain but my mother will be 90 this year and Vera is older than her so she could easily be 100. I could google it I guess but I'm pretty sure it's her age. 

It is indeed her age, she'll be 100 in March.  They are (rather bravely, think....) holding out until her birthday before releasing the album.

crunchman

Philly_Q said:

It is indeed her age, she'll be 100 in March.  They are (rather bravely, think....) holding out until her birthday before releasing the album.

They win either way.  If she makes it then great.  If she doesn't make it then they will get a big posthumous sales bump.

I'm getting far too cynical.

EricTheWeary

crunchman said:

Philly_Q said:

It is indeed her age, she'll be 100 in March.  They are (rather bravely, think....) holding out until her birthday before releasing the album.

They win either way.  If she makes it then great.  If she doesn't make it then they will get a big posthumous sales bump.

I'm getting far too cynical.

But have to rename it as 99 and 11/12ths. 

DesVegas

Teetonetal said:

Skin and Beth Gibbons for me. Wonderful voices.

+1 for Beth

richardhomer

DesVegas said:

Teetonetal said:

Skin and Beth Gibbons for me. Wonderful voices.

+1 for Beth

I remember her on Later when Dummy came out. She wore leather trousers and smoked throughout her performance....

I recorded it on VHS and watched it until the tape wore out....

Reverend

Diamanda Galas?

guitars4you

Don't know her name or much else about her - but who sang Black Velvet - good throaty voice

not_the_dj

guitars4you said:

Don't know her name or much else about her - but who sang Black Velvet - good throaty voice

Alannah Myles 

breakstuff

I'm quite liking Emauella Hutter from The Hillbilly Moon Explosion at the minute.

This song shouldn't really work but it just does.Her voice is a great foil to Sparkys gravel.

ICBM

not_the_dj said:

guitars4you said:

Don't know her name or much else about her - but who sang Black Velvet - good throaty voice

Alannah Myles 

Not knowing much else is a good thing. I bought her album recently, the one with Black Velvet on it. Didn't even manage to listen to the rest of it all the way through, it was utterly dire.

fendergibson

Eddie Reader was also bloody good, esp live. 

rlw

Jennifer Warnes

guitars4you

ICBM said:

not_the_dj said:

guitars4you said:

Don't know her name or much else about her - but who sang Black Velvet - good throaty voice

Alannah Myles 

Not knowing much else is a good thing. I bought her album recently, the one with Black Velvet on it. Didn't even manage to listen to the rest of it all the way through, it was utterly dire.

often the case - one great track and the rest is drivel - many great one hit wonders out there

mgaw

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