Your Top Five Solo Female Singers?

[Yomanze]

Lisa Gerrard is my #1.

...also love Joni Mitchell, Skin from Skunk Anansie, Beth Gibbons from Portishead, Lou Rhodes from Lamb, and FKA Twigs as a newcomer:

 

[Arkless Electronics]

Kiesza
JoJo
Britney
Sarah Mclachlan
Jess Glynne

The thread is for best not worst.....

 

[Realist]

Joni Mitchell
P.J. Harvey
Karen Carpenter
Kate Bush
Mary Margaret O'Hara

 

[Hip-Priest]

My first five would be Denny, Bush, pre-cocaine Nicks, Wheeler and Bjork.

Fraser, Sioux, Hynde, Sade, early Brickell, Hersh, Butcher. B, Harvey and, weirdly, Deal (Kim) have all been popular in my house too

 

[timola]

The thread is for best not worst.....

....and I thought long and hard before posting to impress. An acquired taste perhaps...

 

[RustyB]

Lucinda Williams

Rosanne Cash

Bjork

Suzanne Vega

Tift Merritt

 

[irons1965]

Joni MItchell
Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha Franklin
Rita Reys
Shelagh Delaney

 

[mercalia]

Ofra Haza

Celine Dion
Cyndi Lauper
Marta Sebestyen ( about 5-6 minutes in here)

Gong Linna

Emma Kirkby ( the young version )
Christine Collister
Peng Liyuan

Mireille Mathieu

no particular order

 

[maccar]

Laura Veirs, July Flame
Anita Baker, Rapture
Anais Mitchell, Young Man in America
Jackie Oates, The Spyglass and the Herringbone
Cara Dillon, Hill of Thieves
Honourable mentions for Beth Nielsen Chapman, Melody Gardot and Allison Krauss

 

[maccar]

Apologies if I'm wrong, but think it was Beth Nielsen Chapman with Sand and Water... beautiful album

 

[Ward]

I don't think anyone has mentioned one of my all time favourites
Julia Fordham
also missing seems to be Bonny Raite
another vote for Tory Amos
Has anyone mentioned Alanis Morissette
and another vote for Ricky Lee Jones
and an extra if you please Christine of Christine & the queens

 

[maccar]

Sorry, I have to mention...
Karen Peris from the band Innocence Mission, Julia Stone, Dev Talen from The Weepies and Becky Bliss from Barnaby Bright

 

[p147]

No particular order.

Ella Fitzgerald.
Aretha Franklin.
Julie London.
Peggy Lee.
Keely Smith.

 

[Colin L]

Joni
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Shawn Colvin
Jonatha Brooke
Kari Bremnes

and a host of others but let's not cheat

 

[Engels]

Bonnie Raitt
Aretha Franklin
Sinead O'Connor
Billie Holiday
Joan Armatrading

 

[irons1965]

Joni MItchell
Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha Franklin
Rita Reys
Shelagh Delaney

Edit....Delaney??? - I meant Shelagh McDonald !!

 

[Fretbuzz]

Kate Bush
Natalie Merchant
Maddy Pryor
Tori Amos
Laura Marling

 

[Joe]

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To all you happy posters gayly typing away ......a refresher of the OP's question.

Are you a female vocalist fan and if so who are your top five solo female singers and your one favourite album them ????

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So... that would be five female artists ( not 8 or 10 ) and a favourite album by them.

 

[Lowdenbill]

Cassandra Wilson
June Tabor
Fiona Apple
Dusty Springfield
Nina Simone

 

[bencat]

No order

Cassandra Wilson - Belly of the Sun
Alisson Krauss - Raising Sand
Ofra Haza - Yemenite Songs
Ojo de Brujo - Techari
PP Arnold - Five in the Afternoon