Your favourite female singers.

[Bill Walker]

I'm a big fan of Sade and Amy Winehouse. Both had their own style and both also great songwriters, Sade seems to have quit the music Business never really being comfortable as a big star.
Her albums seem to have a ten year gap much to the frustration of her bandmates..

One album I really love is Guilty by Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb.
Her voice is so pure and beautiful on that record.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

 

[Wayneclarkemunchescarrots]

Stevie nicks , nobody comes anywhere near her

 

[KS55]

Bonny Raitt is a fine singer and a master of the slide guitar.
I fell in love with Christine Perfect-McVie, a very good writer and keyboard player.
Dusty Springfield was full of soul.
Susanna Hoffs is beautiful. (Manic Monday was written by Prince.)
Judith Durham had a beautiful, pure voice.
Elkie Brooks, Manchester’s own jazzy queen.
Sandy Denny had a lovely voice.

 

[Pedestrian]

Hope Sandoval
Harriet Wheeler.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Sandy Denny
Judith Durham
Francoise Hardy
Joan Baez
Carole King.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Patti Russo but, she lost a lot of credit when Meat Loaf died.

Debbie Harry

Whoever Paul Heaton uses, Jacqui Abbott/Rianne Downy

Mamma Cass

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Susan Boyle

 

[BlindEyeSeesAll]

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Alison Moyet
Karen Carpenter
Susannah Hoffs
Annie Lennox

 

[Eric Wirral]

Stevie Nicks
Ann Wilson
Judie Tzuke
Dolores O’Riordan
Kate Bush
Amy Macdonald

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

the best can be identified by a single name...so for me...

Dusty
Gladys
Janis
Barbara
Ella...

Hon mentions to Sandy Denny. Francoise Handy and Petula Clarke.

Oh and Etta James.

 

[Bill Walker]

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Bad hair day mate ?

 

[bavarian blue]

Gladys Knight
Karen Carpenter
Sandy Denny
Ella Fitzgerald.

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

damnit I forgot Marlena Shaw.

 

[oakiecokie]

Annie Lennox and Leona Lewis

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

• Karen Carpenter
• Stevie Nicks
• Kate Bush
• Sade Adu
• Anita Baker
• Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
• Lana Del Rey
• Victoria Legrand (Beach House)
• Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief)

 

[mexico1970]

Pauline Black has to get a shout.

 

[PeterBarnesShorts]

Eva Cassidy deserves a shout…

 

[Saddleworth2]

So many...

Kate Bush
Joni Mitchell
Carol King
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Amy Winehouse
Sade
Diana Krall
Karen Carpenter
Billie Halliday
Dusty Springfield
Raye
Lana Del Rey
Janis Joplin
Maggie Bell
Emmylou Harris
Dolly Parton
Streisand
Tina Turner

would be my favourite 20. For me less is more and whilst I can appreciate their technical brilliance, Whitney, Maria and Celine are not for me.