Favorite Female vocalist or singer?

[PoeticRocker]

I was thinking popular rock wise, but any other form of music is welcomed.

Annie Lennox from "Eurythmics"
Johnette Napolitano from the "The Concrete Blondes"
Deborah Harry from "Blondie"

 

[CrazyHarij]

sinead o connor because of her stuff with massive attack

 

[StardogChampion]

Nina Simone
Janis Joplin - best ever
Maria McKee
Aimee Mann
Her from the 4 Non Blondes

 

[Solaris]

Sinead Oconnor

 

[Zephos]

Kim Deal from the Pixies (and Breeders.. but eh)

Also, although she isn't a vocalist/singer (though she does do backup vocals), I've always had a soft spot for D'Arcy Wretsky from the Smashing Pumpkins.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Hmm I'd say

Chan Marshall of Cat Power
Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth
Kim Deal of the Pixies
Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo
Traceyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura
Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley
Ane Brun
Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls
Sierra and Bianca Casady of CocoRosie

 

[KagePrototype]

PJ Harvey \o/

 

[evil^milk]

Hehe, I've been waiting for this thread.

I think

PJ Harvey
Fiona Apple
Kim Deal
Chan Marshall
Georgia Hubley
the chick from Broken Social Scene
Karen O
Regina Spektor?

 

[AntiAnto]

PJ Harvey
Bj?rk

 

[Polaris]

Tarja Turunen
Maggie Reilly
Cara Dillon
Deborah Harry
Enya

 

[Dekstar]

Milla Jovovich (She's an Actress and a singer), especially her song: Bang your head
And Joanna Newsom. Her 'Book of right on' song is my fave!

 

[Absinthe]

Toni Halliday from Curve

Shame on you people for not posting her yet.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Oh damn, I forgot all about Joanna Newsom. Love her voice.

 

[Stigmata]

Natalie Imbruglia because she's hot.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Sarah Mclachlan
Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries)

 

[evil^milk]

Oh damn, I forgot all about Joanna Newsom. Love her voice.

Hehe, I think her voice is you either love it or hate it.

I can't stand it

 

[DeusExMachina]

I almost thought she did the voice for Fran in Final Fantasy XII o__o

 

[Slacker]

Jenny Lewis <333333333

 

[gick]

Bjork

 

[Geogaddi]

Brody Dalle of The Distillers, for having the most f*cked up voice ever.

 

[Pulse]

Angela Gossow.

 

[Captain M4d]

Satomi Matsuzaki of Deerhoof
http://www.radcompany.net/Storys/NewsStorys/Deerhoof/MatsuzakiSatomiRainbow.jpg

 

[ComradeBadger]

Emily Haines of Metric

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Amy Lee from Evanescence. 'Nuff said bitches

 

[JFry]

britney spears

 

[xombine]

Candace Kucsulain from Walls of Jericho ftw!

 

[joule]

Katy Rose
Amy Lee

Off the top of my head.

 

[Lucid]

Heather Dale
Amy Lee
Cristina Scabbia
Morgan Lander

 

[jimbo118]

Gemma Hayes
http://www.gemmahayes.com/newsite/

 

[Zoetrap]

Laleh
Anna Ternheim

^ two swedish singer-wongwriters

and

Norah Jones

 

[Barney_Calhoun]

Aliz?e Jacotey
Lene Marlin
Nami Tamaki
Hayley Westenra

 

[lePobz]

Sarah McLachlan, Jan Johnston or Andrea Britton.

Or all 3, at the same time

 

[brink's]

Kim Gordon of the Sonic Youth

 

[Que-Ever]

Paris Hilton lol

but seriously, the Cranberries chick. Emphesis on chick.

 

[<RJMC>]

does gwen steffani deserve to be in the list?

 

[Uriel]

Sarah McLachlan & the chick from some band that combines Oprah with rock, sounds okay sometimes, but I do fancy her voice.

 

[CptStern]

Ella fitzgerald



Tori Amos
Sarah Mclachlan
Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays)
Etta James
Billy Holliday
natalie merchant

 

[PoeticRocker]

Sarah McLachlan & the chick from some band that combines Oprah with rock, sounds okay sometimes, but I do fancy her voice.

LOL Oprah with Rock N Roll dude??

Did you mean Opera..?

 

[mortiz]

Doro Pesch!(click for pure 80's goodness)

 

[MiccyNarc]

Amy Lee
Sarah Evans
And yeah, Gretchen Wilson. I'm a country boy at heart.