[davidcotton]

The other one I forgot to mention

is All About Eve, though you may be better off getting a compilation now. They should only be about a fiver.

Julianne Regan (or whatever the hell her name is!) has one of the best female vocals I've heard (oh and it isnt prog either!!!

)

 

[Kubernetes]

Oh, a few additions:

Mary Margaret O'Hara
Hope Sandoval (of Mazzy Star; she's solo now)
Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Breeders, Belly, now solo)
Jane Siberry

 

[OakIris]

Some of my favorites, in no particular order:

Sandy Denny
Joan Armitrading
Ani Difranco
Bonnie Raitt
Billie Holiday
Big Mama Thornton
Joan Baez
Joni Mitchel
Melissa Etheridge
Linda Ronstadt
Emmy Lou Harris
Tracy Chapman
Joy of Cooking
Maddy Prior
Heart
Audra McDonald
Celia Cruz
Susan Tedeschi
Janis Joplin

 

[ze-ant]

Strange, but no one seems to have suggested:-

Karrin Allyson;
Shirley Horn;
Astrid Gilberto (Bossa Nova!)

Keiko Lee (with a word of warning, although she is popular you may not like her...I bought her 'best of' cd last night and was bitterly disappointed, a thick and lifeless voice and a really slow vocal delivery, yawnnnn IMHO)

 

[Deadfan]

Great thread...there's nothing like amazing female voclaists/musicians. Looks like I have similar tastes to a couple of you but there's one new name that you've got to explore:

Nanci Griffith!! (get MCA years)

I also love:
Kasey Chambers (listeing to Wayward Angel right now)
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
Suzanne Vega
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark and Blue

and here are two more awesome but more obscure female singers (but no less amazing than anyone else in this thread):

Ferron (listen to Driver)
June Tabor (one of the most amazing voices ever)

Cheers, Mike (should be working but this is so much more fun)

 

[adhoc]

goodness, how could you all forget to raise this thread??!

 

[yyoo]

Someone I just discovered thanks to my fiancee:

Keren Ann

 

[xxhotchikxx]

Britney Spears, Ashlee Simpson, and Lindsey Lohan; Triple Threat Power Vocalists.

 

[EdipisReks]

man, i forgot Ute Lemper! her performances of Kurt Weill art songs are sublime.

 

[MrMajestic]

I didn't read the whole thread, so I'm sure some of these have been mentioned already. I promise you will not like all of these, so research them first.


Portishead
Lamb
Cat Power
Morcheeba
Hooverphonic
Ruby
Broadcast
Cardigans
Dido
Jem
Carina Round
Cranes
Distillers (not for everyone)
Elastica
Goldfrapp
Hybrid (Julie Cruz sings on Wide Angle)
Jack Off Jill
Kills
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Kidney Thieves
Laika
Lhooq
Lucia
Metric
Moa
Nina Gordon
PJ Harvey
Poe
Radio Iodine
Sahara Hotnights
Skindive
Le Tigre
Snowy
Solex
Black Box Recorder
Spalding Rockwell
Supreme Beings of Leisure

 

[earache]

Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
Paula Cole
Beth Orton
Holly Cole
K D Lang
Kim Richey
Shea Seger

these are a few in current rotation now!