Who's your favorite female singer?

[Big chicken]

janis joplin

 

[groooooove]

ella fitzgerald. nobody comes close to what that woman sang like.

 

[Ewo]

Vintage: Lydia Pense, on the Cold Blood album Donny Hathaway produced.

You Had to Know does it for me.

 

[Vis]

Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Janice Price (Check her out here )
If I had to pick just one it would have to be Billie Holliday. Extraordinary ability to sing around the beat. Check out Papa Ain't Got Rhythm

 

[bass12]

I'm not so much into the music but I think K.D. Lang is a fantastic singer. I also love Bjork for her originality and the way in which her personality so much comes through in her singing. Shara Nelson and Caron Wheeler are another two that I like a lot.

 

[ridgeback]

Eva Cassidy
cass elliot
Karen Carpenter
ella fitzgerald
aretha franklin
Bonnie Raitt (sometimes)
Debbie Harry
i could be here all night..lots of good female singers out there but there is a few of my favorite singers..cass elliott is just amazing...

 

[masonsjax]

A single favorite is difficult to say, but Alison Krauss comes to mind. That voice is amazing to me.

 

[JimK]

I really liked Joan Osborne's early stuff - before they tried to make her a pop star. Her live cover of "Son of a Preacher Man" is about as soulful as you can get.

I'm with you...check out her version of "Smiling Faces Sometimes".
Similar thing for Joss Stone, too...her debut recording was happenin'...then the Popstar thing began.

 

[Roy Vogt]

A tie between Eva Cassidy and Nashville's own Jonell Mosser. She's absolutely wonderful and a total sweetheart besides. I had the honor of playing on her tribute to Townes Van Zandt Around Townes (Winter Harvest 1996).
Very classy and funky lady!

 

[I<34080]

Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson together.

 

[Mad Maestro]

Hope Sandoval followed by Björk, Janis Joplin, Lucienne Boyer and Nancy Sinatra

 

[TUEP]

This will speak for itself.

 

[LIOGM]

Fiona Apple

 

[rational baze]

For me it has to be:

Alison Krauss
Erykah Badu
Fiona Apple
Tori Amos

 

[becker4567]

This girl! What a sweet voice..... And she lays down a nice bass line too!

WOW! That is some of the coolest stuff I've heard in a very long time!

 

[logicman69]

Lola

from "Lola and the Palbearers"

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Nice bluesy voice and a body that just won't quit. Plus one of the coolest chicks I know.

 

[jumbosilverette]

Too many to mention, but that come to mind:
Gladys Knight
Chaka Khan
Aretha
Bettye Lavette
Shirley Horn

 

[retardedpossum]

I am Freako for Neko!

Neko Case......unless Julie Slick starts singing

 

[greengoblin]

Not sure if they have been posted. Cant pick just one and in no particular order:

Lacey Mosley - Flyleaf
Nicolette Vilar - orig for Go Betty Go
Tobey Torres - orig for Snake River Conspiracy
Deborah Harry - Blondie
Natalie Merchant

 

[pica]

Aimee Mann & Edie Brickell