Female vocals

Looks like you are not yet married - you are still to realize the real beauty of female vocals

I could add following to your list:

1. Anne Murray
2. Carpenters
3. Olivia Newton John
4. Lata Mangeshkar
5. Abida Parveen
6. Norah Jones
7. Celine Dion
8. All girl-friends (before they become wives )

SDhawan schrieb:

Looks like you are not yet married - you are still to realize the real beauty of female vocals I could add following to your list: 1. Anne Murray 2. Carpenters 3. Olivia Newton John 4. Lata Mangeshkar 5. Abida Parveen 6. Norah Jones 7. Celine Dion 8. All girl-friends (before they become wives )

LMAO

To add a few more to your list....

Sarah Vaughan
Peggy Lee
Chris Connor
Judy Garland
Julie Andrews
Debbi Reynolds(yes she sang beautifully)
Elaine Paige
Glen Close(she is an awesom singer)
All the andrew lloyd weber leading ladies

Manek.

Ahh yes..
Peggy Lee
Don't know how i missed her.


Manek, your mention of Julie andrews(Haven't heard her songs) made me think of another great...
Julie london.

Jann Arden
And of course Stevie Nicks

glenn Close..
Guess i am going to add these ladies onto my Pandora and create a seperate station..
Thanks fells..
Keep them coming.

Great way to discover music.

Saachi

Sarah McLachlan, Mary Black, Barbra Streisand
and Amy Lee !

Shahrukh schrieb:

Sarah McLachlan, Mary Black, Barbra Streisand and Amy Lee !

Wow! Thanks Shahrukh, for that mention of Mary Black .
been listening to a song of hers..I Like it

Amy Lee has a nice voice but i guess i would not want her in the same radio station as the other female artists.

Hi
To add a few more to your list

Eva Cassidy
Janis Ian
Emmy Lou Harris
Allison Krauss
Cheryl Wheeler
Nanci Griffith
Jennifer Warnes


Regards
Rajiv

Rajiv schrieb:

Hi To add a few more to your list Eva Cassidy Janis Ian Emmy Lou Harris Allison Krauss Cheryl Wheeler Nanci Griffith Jennifer Warnes Regards Rajiv

Thanks for that Rajiv.
Eva is a fav of mine.
So is Jennifer Warnes.
Alison Krauss is a little too bluegrassy for my taste but good to listen now and then..

From your list, seems like u are a country/folk lover..
Keep them coming..
Got a station caled 'Angel Voices' on Pandora with these great artistes.

Thanks,

Saachi

Savyasaachi schrieb:

Shahrukh schrieb: Sarah McLachlan, Mary Black, Barbra Streisand and Amy Lee ! Wow! Thanks Shahrukh, for that mention of Mary Black . been listening to a song of hers..I Like it Amy Lee has a nice voice but i guess i would not want her in the same radio station as the other female artists.

Sav, you should listen to Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" (from the city of angels OST) in a dark quiet room. Heavenly and haunting!

Add Annie Lennox to the list. Recently heard her MTV Unplugged version of Here Comes The Rain Again - superb!

Add Dianne Reeves too!

i Do like Sarah McLachlan's 'World on fire' and 'sweet surrender'.

Already added the song you recommended to the station.

Annie Lennox..hmm...only herad one song of hers and taht too once maybe twice.
Wil add her too.
Ditto for Dianne Reeves.

Thanks.

Say what say you guys open an account on pandora.com
We can share radio stations and that way discover some great music.

????

Recommend Doris Day to the list..
EDIT: Also Joni Mitchell

joan baez
joan osborne
the woman who's was with jefferson airplane
janis joplin
the abba ladies can never get the names straight so will not even attempt it here

i had an all woman thomson cassette. will try and dig it out to list some of em. lovely classic rockers.

and of course the bee gees

Among the Ones I've heard, I liked

Alanis Morissette
Clare Torry in 'The great gig in the sky'
Sheryl Crow
Delores O'Riordan - The Cranberries
Grace Slick - Jefferson Airplane
Norah Jones
Janis Joplin
Joan Osbourne

My favourite female singers are:

Jennifer Rush

Tarja Turunen

Heather Nova

Dolores O'Riordan

Nena

Sharon den Adel

Lisa Middelhauve

Sarah McLachlan

Sarah Brightman

Aimee Mann

Candice Night

Enya

Madonna

Dido

Celine Dion

Amy Lee

Jewel

Jess Klein

Bonnie Tyler

Melanie

Liv Kristine

Cat

Cristina Scabbia

Marta Jandová

Marie Fredriksson

Jeanette

Maggie Reilly

Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Cher

....

and of course lots of black gospel and soul voices.

...

sachi...
julie andrews was the one who acted in sound of music, marry popins, victor victoria etc....great stage actress too.

If you wanna listen to rock vocalists, I have a few suggestions... Tarja Turunen(Nightwish), Sharon den Adel(Within Temptation), Cristina Scabbia(Lacuna Coil), Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering), Liv Kristine (Theater of Tragedy), Vibeke Stene (Tristania) and Floor Jansen (After Forever). Most of these bands other than probably lacuna coil are no way close to mainstream however.

If you wanna check out some death metal with female vocals, check Angela Gossow(Arch Enemy)... unbelievable :KR. Not my everyday cup of tea but fun once in a while.

reignofchaos schrieb:

If you wanna check out some death metal with female vocals, check Angela Gossow(Arch Enemy)... unbelievable :KR. Not my everyday cup of tea but fun once in a while.

A woman sings death metal? That's very courios!

I've found the homepage: www.archenemy.net

She looks well but that's all. She sounds to male like a Blackmetal shouter.

mario.priss schrieb:

My favourite female singers are: Jennifer Rush Tarja Turunen Heather Nova Dolores O'Riordan Nena Sharon den Adel Lisa Middelhauve Sarah McLachlan Sarah Brightman Aimee Mann Candice Night Enya Madonna Dido Celine Dion Amy Lee Jewel Jess Klein Bonnie Tyler Melanie Liv Kristine Cat Cristina Scabbia Marta Jandová Marie Fredriksson Jeanette Maggie Reilly Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad Cher .... and of course lots of black gospel and soul voices. ...

Thanks for your recommendations..his should keep me busy for this quarter term

sachi... julie andrews was the one who acted in sound of music, marry popins, victor victoria etc....great stage actress too.

Thanks for that Manekji,
Stupid of me to forget that.

If you wanna listen to rock vocalists, I have a few suggestions... Tarja Turunen(Nightwish), Sharon den Adel(Within Temptation), Cristina Scabbia(Lacuna Coil), Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering), Liv Kristine (Theater of Tragedy), Vibeke Stene (Tristania) and Floor Jansen (After Forever). Most of these bands other than probably lacuna coil are no way close to mainstream however.

Very open to all genres.
From your list i have only heard Nightwish, and i like them.
Will check out the others.
Thanks.

Cheers,
Saachi

sinead O connor

Hey Sachi,

Here are my favs

Patti Andress one half of the amazing husband and wife duo - Tuck and Patti.

Diane Schur - the blues singer
Liane Foly- the french Chanteuse.
Aziza Mustapha Zadeh - the lebanese Jazz artist
Fairoz - the nightingale from Lebanon
Maria Joao from Portugal
...and many more

Here are some of my favourites :

Mary Black
Eva Cassidy
Loreena Mckenitt
Patricia Barber
Diana Krall
Sarah Mclachlan
Norah Jones
Mazzy Star
Celine Dion
Enya
Dido
Lauren Wood
Sade

I kinda like Mariah Carey (not her genre of music, but most definitely her voice)

Cheers
SNV

Part II of my favourite female singers:
Lauryn Hill - Killing Me Softly with the Fugees
Tasmin Archer - Sleepin Satellite
Robin Beck - First Time ('89 original version)
Anastacia - Sick And Tired
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
Birgit Lau
Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last
Sarah Connor - Skin On Skin, From Sarah With Love
Geri Halliwell - Calling
Beyoncé
Toni Braxton
Faith Hill
...

Maria Rita,
Frau Frau,
Sheryl Crow,
Cassandra Wilson,
Sunidhi Chouhan,
Viji Subramanyam (the Late wife of Dr.L.Subramanyam),
Bombay Jayashri

1.Lata Mangeshkar
2.Asha Bhonsle.
3.MS Subbulakshmi
4.Geeta Dutt.
5.Sudha Malhotra
6.Shamshad Begum
7.Noor Jehan
8.Sunidhi Chauhan
9.Shreya Ghosal
10.Alka Yagnik
11.Shruti Sadolikar
12.Vani Jayaram
13.Abida Parveen
14.Begum Akhtar
& I could go on & on....
I must confess that I am a bit astonished at the fact that hardly anyone barring a couple, has deigned to consider Indisn female singers!
Are they really so bad or are we audiophiles becoming a wee bit snobbish in spouting foreign names only, just to show what great connosieurs we are?
Come on guys, come down to earth!
Baffled,
Kamal

Kamal schrieb:

1.Lata Mangeshkar 2.Asha Bhonsle. 3.MS Subbulakshmi 4.Geeta Dutt. 5.Sudha Malhotra 6.Shamshad Begum 7.Noor Jehan 8.Sunidhi Chauhan 9.Shreya Ghosal 10.Alka Yagnik 11.Shruti Sadolikar 12.Vani Jayaram 13.Abida Parveen 14.Begum Akhtar & I could go on & on.... I must confess that I am a bit astonished at the fact that hardly anyone barring a couple, has deigned to consider Indisn female singers! Are they really so bad or are we audiophiles becoming a wee bit snobbish in spouting foreign names only, just to show what great connosieurs we are? Come on guys, come down to earth! Baffled, Kamal

personally, i have not had much exposure to Indina music. But, lately i have been listeing to a lot of Carnatic fusion and carnatic classical, chants among other things.
So will update my list sometime later.
But personally, i don't like Hindi. Never did. However, there are the few exceptions to that as well.

Thanks guys for all the posts. Your recommendations show a sense of taste (very uncommon outside this forum). I wish this were a sticky post. It will certainly be used when adding to my music collection.

Among the artistes already mentioned here that are my especial favourites too:
Dido
Norah
Enya
Diana Krall
Julie Andrews
Celine
Annie Lennox

To this, I shall add:
Aqua: Nele Nystrom
Frente!: Angie Hart
Connie Francis
Madonna

Tanita Tikaram
Sade
Stevie Nicks (in fact all the female vocalists in Fleetwood Mac)
The female in The Cranberries
Joni Mitchell

Not included the Jazz divas 'coz almost all of them've been mentioned in the previous posts...

soulforged schrieb:

Tanita Tikaram

I love this.
CD is difficult to source.

soulforged schrieb:

Stevie Nicks (in fact all the female vocalists in Fleetwood Mac)

There were only two... Stevie and Christine McVie ;).

The female in The Cranberries

Dolores O'Riordan

Tanita Tikaram

Is she an Indian/married to one?

reignofchaos schrieb:

There were only two... Stevie and Christine McVie ;).

Ah yes! and what a voice McVie had

Tanita has Indian origins. Here's a short introduction I wrote about her some months ago -
Tanita Tikaram

Bhagwan, I have 4 of her albums picked up from US and a couple of ancient cassettes as well. Her albums are hard to come by even there but her voice is worth the search I hope I can get my paws on a vinyl pressing of the Ancient Heart album...

Kamal schrieb:

Tanita Tikaram Is she an Indian/married to one?

Tanita was born to a Fiji-Indian father and a Malaysian mother. Her father was in the British army posted in Germany. Music was an integral part of her family and she grew up on a staple diet of Soul and Country music of the ‘70s. When she was twelve, her family moved to England. Not able to adjust to the change in her surroundings, Tanita took solace in music. By time she turned sixteen, she was writing her own songs.

http://www.tanita-tikaram.com/

She has her own web site too.

So, here are my favourite female singers part III:
Moya Brennan
Valentine
Annie Lennox
Rebecca Pidgeon
Marcela Bovio
Sabine Dünser
Vibeke Stene

Tanita has Indian origins. Here's a short introduction I wrote about her some months ago - Tanita Tikaram

Hey, soulforged, that link identifies you as, Heavens Help Us,a female!
Is this true?
Have we,(sob, sob,) been infiltrated?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo!