Who are your favorite female singers?

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Rita Streich

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all right, i'm trying to get some diversity in my music.

besides fiona apple(you betcha i have the third cd now),
kerin bergquist from over the rhine-her voice is very comforting.
karen peris from the innocence mission-same.
kate bush-dude, dude, just dude.

Joni Mitchel. Emiliana Torini

That's all I can think of. I guess my music collection is sexist.

Amy Lee is my favorite female singer

Can't think right now..

Kathleen Hanna
Erykah Badu

Farily wide ranging I guess...

Indigo Girls
Janis Joplin
Amy Winehouse
Natalie Merchant
Sheryl Crow
Shirley Manson
KD Lang
Sinead O'Connor
Grace Slick
Judy Garland
Tracy Chapman (love her new song!)
Patsy Cline
Sarah Maclachlan
Stevie Nicks
Rihanna (?) I love her in that Maroon 5 song

OK - so this is more of a "best of" list.

Sadly, many of these women are dead or a little loony and burned out or just hanging out in semi-retirement. I think we're in kind of a dry spell for female singers.

There is a lot of GREAT music being made right now - but mostly guys.

Shirley Bassey

So many great choices here that I like have been echoed. Oh well, here's another echo.
Natalie Merchant
Melissa Ferrick
Melissa Etheridge
Jewel ( before she went country )
Annie Lennox
Ani Di Franco
Anne Murray
Karen Carpenter
Christine McVee-From Fleetwood Mac
I like Stevie Nicks too, but Christine even better
k.d. lang
Indigo Girls
Joni Mitchell
Sarah McLaughlin
Sheryl Crow
Bonnie Rait
Paula Cole
Sinead O'Connor
Tracy Chapman
Patsy Cline
The woman from Jefferson Airplane-Grace Slick?
Joan Armatrading
Laura Nyro ( I didn't think anyone knew who she was until this thread )
Barbara Streisand
Bette Midler
Celine Dion-amazing voice, songs become too fake lately, weird on stage movements
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Natalie Cole
Dionne Warwick
Dusty Springfield
Shirley Bassey
Lulu
Amy Lee (Evanesence)
Roberta Flack
Dianna Krall
Bobbie Gentry
Janis Joplin
Joan Jett
Alison Krauss
The woman who sings with the 5th Dimension

Mme Le Pen: Sadly, I have to agree with your statement about the state of women's music. Really want to get Tracy Chapman's new album. I read somewhere that Natalie Merchant might come out with a new album this year or in 2010.

Jan Johnston:

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And Sarah Cracknell:

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And the singers from Portishead and Lamb.

Oh, God, I LOVE this woman...

this is an australian 17 year old girl (at that time) singing "i am woman" that was originally sung by helen reddy. the musicians that perform this track are extremely proficient.
and i must say that amarosi's voice is powered by genius of effect.
i have worked with her and i know her somewhat.
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Fiona Apple
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I wish she would do a full on jazz album!! !

Zooey Deschanel

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She is so sexy it hurts my brain...

Athena Cage: I've only heard her in one song by Keith Sweat, but her voice is effing awesome.

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, not so much because of her music but the personality she had. Plus I had a crush on her when I was 12.

Aalyiah

Kate Earl

Edie Brickell

Tracy Chapman

Fiona Apple

Tori Amos

In alphabetical order:

Aimee Mann
Alanis Morissette
Anne Lennox
Axelle Red
Cat Power
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Dido
Duffy
Edie Brickell
Fiona Apple
Kate Nash
Jill Sobule
Lady Gaga
Laurie Anderson
Lila Downs
Lizzie West
Natacha Atlas
Nico
Regina Spektor
Sarah Harmer
St. Vincent
Suzanne Vega
Vanessa Paradis
Zooey Deschanel

Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield