Gentlemen I submit my choice
Give a listen. Got to hear the whole song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNtGoM3FVU

Any broad with a fish hook in her nose is too much even for me. Sorry.

Open your mind, give a listen....

I did. She just don’t do much for me

Dude . . .

Adele can sing.....

Judith Durham

Absolute schit.

Ann Wilson, regardless of her politics, could belt out a tune. Very few females “rock”, and she’s one if them.

Hillary Scott has the finest voice in music today.

To each their own, I guess. Not a fan of the voice or daddy issues on that one.

Martina McBride

Ann Wilson is truly a great singer.

Yup.

Martina McBide..

Aretha Franklin.

Pink.

Stevie Nicks.

Emmy Lou Harris.

The late Eva Cassidy had the most pure and expressive voice of any female vocalist I've ever heard.

Big Yoko Ono fan here.

Probably in the minority though.

Morgan James.

greatest female voice was Janis Joplin she could sing without music , record songs and still get #1 songs without music ,no other person ever did this !

Spelling, look, style. I gave her about 20 seconds.
Not my thing.



I can't do one favorite.

But Alison Krauss is near the top.

Dusty Springfield

I prefer Linda McCartney.

She has a knock-out Aerosmith cover.

I think KT Tunstall has an amazing emotional range, & she's so precise with a lyric. Whether or not I like a particular song, I really like the way she approaches it.





Alba Armengou is a teenager in Spain, and has been part of the Sant Andreu jazz band since she was 8. She's just an exceptional singer - got some Billie Holiday goin' on, even as she's singing in Portuguese, Spanish, French, or English. She's also damned good with a trumpet, though she approaches it differently than I would:





What these kids do in this one is unbelieveable. The harmonies are tough as hell, & they nail 'em. Also, a good chunk of the backing band are in HS or Jr. High.





FC

Don't have a favorite per se. I like many. Here's 2:

Ann Wilson
Susanna Hoffs
Martina McBride
Celine Dion
Whitney Houston
Sia

The isolated mics, lol

I wouldn’t say that...some of her stuff is pretty good.

Yoko Ono’s Greatest Hit

Great groove here, give it a listen.

Chick had the smoothest voice around.

Some good ones listed, Neko, Morgan James and Alison K

For me tho - Nina Simone.

Grew up with Linda Rhonstat, Pat Benetar , & Ann Wilsom. Love all 3 & still wonder who was best.

But this one here wakes my old ass up & makes me want to party!

Norah Jones. Lucinda Williams second.

Smooth Operator....

Amy Winehouse

Get out the Kleenex boys.

Seriously, listen to this. Her voice is so pure.

Calm down boomer

You got it. 🤣🤣🤣

Patsy Cline

Diana Ross

Eva Cassidy was a real talent. Cancer sucks.

Damnshitload of boomers here

Floor Jansen of Nightwish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYjIlHWBAVo

Mark in GA

Hope Sandoval & Loreena McKennitt

Good choice

Adele. My wife somewhat dragged me to the concert, absolutely amazing voice in person.

Christina Aguilera, not my kind of music, but she can sing.

Beth Hart

Lol.

Yep, Beth Hart is my very favorite.

I just lost one of my all time favorites. Was searching u-tube for some of her stuff and came across an anti Trump song video... fugh you bitch, shove you’re politics up your ass along with your music

Suzy Boggus, Allison Krause. Lady GAGA has a great voice. For the old timers, Patsy Cline, Etta James, Timi Yuro. GD

I grew up a couple of blocks from Janis.

https://youtu.be/wwmUMvhy-lY

Angela

Judith Durham! What a voice!

Plus, no ring in her nose.

X2

Carah Faye Charnow, Meg Myers, Linda Ronstadt, Norah Jones, Myrkur, Gwen Stefani, Alissa White-Gluz

My brother once said Allison Kraus sounds just like Alvin and the Chipmunks. I like her anyway.

Karen Carpenter
Patsy Cline
Grace Slick
Julianne Peterson
Martina
Aretha
Pink

I’m torn. There’s really only one

The Cranberries lead singer

Shania Twain

Amy Lee, Sarah McLachlan in moderation and may God bless them Whitney Houston and Dolores O'Riordan.

Forgot one...Shakira

Orianthi...

Her wet dog commercials are compelling

No one holds a candle to Stevie Nicks, although Allison Krauss is super talented.

Sara Evans
Amy Lee

Her wet dog commercials are compelling [/quote

I'll turn in my man card, but I always liked this tune. She does have a unique voice and can write a melody that's palatable to the ear.

Might not the greatest voice but she could be my next ex-wife easily...


Samantha Fish

Kim Gordon

Rachel Price

Eva Cassidy is one of my all time favorites.

Alison Krauss

Stacey Kent (jazz)

Barbar Streisand

My wife... done a lot of recording. Still makes me cry.

Negroid overload gross tonnage. 🤣

Your man card's been revoked.

Iris DeMent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaoR5m4L80

Discovered her music two years ago, and now have all of her CD's.

Any of the vocalists for Celtic Woman...

I nominate Margot Timmons

Adele
Sade
Roberta
and many others 😀

Maria McKee / Lone Justice

Jane Doe.

Someone tell Slum to cease and desist. 🤣

Several of the singers for Celtic Woman-notably Chloe Agnew.

several versions of "Danny Boy"- they're amazing!

Absolutely!

Maybe Lee Ann Womack. But I'm just not into female vocalists or comedians. ...

Wolves are damned hard to beat, IMO.

Karen Carpenter comes close tho.

One of my favorite sounds along with elk bugling and loons on a lake

She didn't do anything that 20,000 other female singers can't do as well.

Norah Jones is quite good, but I'll never understand how Lucinda has a single fan with that squaky, annoying voice she has.

Yes, she is.............fabulous voice & was great looking before she got fat.

She's a favorite, along with Christine McVeigh.

Adele also has a great voice, but I really don't care for her.

MM

Pretty hard to beat Dinah Washington although she died in 1963.

No members of the Bjork fan club here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?pOmRlhK9seg

LOL!!!!!

Old School. Lorie Morgan.

^ I agree, what a voice. If you haven't listened to her, check her out.

Bjork would be freaky in the sack I bet. No tellin what could happen.

Folks here got a lot covered..

But don't forget the Irish Corrs..



Or little powerpack Chrisi..

Best? Maybe not, but she's definitely a great female vocalist.

works for me....

Joan Jett
-l Love Rock n Roll
-Crimson & Clover

Taken from us too soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJmP8T07JU

Mariah. Sings and looks like an angel

Amazing
That's a serious gift of talent.

Stevie Nicks hands down!

If you don’t mind Celtic music, I’ve been listening to a lot of Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh. Incredible together or separate.

Old70

Definitely a favorite:

Beth Hart



Something a little more upbeat for you rockers.

Adele aint too bad...

The best all time music is Gospel music. "Make a joyful noise unto The Lord."

As much as I appreciate Martina's wonderful voice, no one is even close to the voice of Sarah Brightman. The voice of an angel.

Julie Cruise, falling


Into the Night




Back Inside My Heart

I bet she’d be a royal head case and biatch to live with but the woman can sing no doubt about it.

Natalie Merchant lives local to me, in Ulster Co.NY. A few years back I was playing at a pancake breakfast (I play in a Americana/folk band) at a Maple Sugar Shack. We were playing on a flat bed trailer and saw a couple women and kids dancing. After the song the woman walked by our "stage" and gave us two thumbs up. It was Natalie Merchant. We saw her a year and a half ago at a local hotel/retreat called the Mohonk Mountain House. I enjoy her music and she does a nice solo show. Her politics however - - - - .

There will never be an equal.





But this woman can sing!

cant forget whitney

Kaylee Rogers


Accompanied by her special needs school.

A more subtle side of Chrisi..

Stevie Nicks.

Some of my favorite women...

Tarja Turunen formerly of Nightwish.

Cool story. I always liked her music. I’m sure her politics are a mess but I had a little bit of a crush on her when I was about 14.

This

Bjork

All is full of love


Bachelorette

Yep !!

In no particular order:

Hope Sandoval,

Gillian Welch,

Nina Simone.

Bonnie Railtt.

For Wabi:


I’m surprised none of the boomers have brought up Cass Eliot yet:

Offhand......Billy Halliday. Mary Travers. Jennifer Rush. Judith Durham.

Martina McBride
Patty Loveless
Roseann Cash
Pat Benatar
And of course, the one and only Patsy Cline

Leeann Rymes gets Honorable Mention.

The guy that shot John Lennon should have shot Yoko too.

That’s an easy plus 1!

LOL!

Wow I didn't realize Carson was doing Carnac that early. Good stuff.

Although I’m a gen Xer, my vote goes to Connie Francis.

My new straight man.

Travis left me...

Saad!

Igloo getting cold, gotta spark the seal oil .. Was doing the YouTube thing last night.. Patty Smythe was a looker and a voice..

Bonnie Raitt…...can sing about any style well, amazing voice

You've got good taste..................for a Californio

Probably already been mentioned, but jic

Plus I can even enjoy looking at her as she took a breath

Some of us are OK, dude.

Maybe not my "favorite", but I can listen to more than one track at least

Bonnie Bishop
Susan Tedeschi
Patsy Cline
Ann Wilson
Linda Ronstandt

No love for Grace here yet???
Just a little talent shown in the opening verse:

Are you ready for it? 😃

And WTF? Not even a single mention of Johnette???

Hit me with your best shot?

Damn she secksy in dis

I thought this was the one she was riding a wrecking ball nekkid in?

She's hot enough for at least a one nighter, back seat of the car deal type of thing maybe.

How'd she vote? We sposed to boycott her?

The fan asylum is real

2-3 billion view counts on some of the vids

Is it my imagination or are her thighs really getting thicker?

That fan thing is exactly that, an asylum.

Worse than the Monkeys, Partridge Family, and Hansen rolled into one.

She is like 17 you fugging animals.

31

She is getting thicker. Last 3 yrs or so.



Still a thin mint here

What a great setting for a music video..👍

That's about the age them Hi-line sturdy women have their third child, no?

Another vote for Eva Cassidy,then Pat Benetar,and an obscure one, Loraine Lewis .

Borgholm Castle, Sweden.



More Swedish girls..!!.. Soprano and sub-soprano.

Maria does a pretty good job too:

Paying tribute to Debbie and the gang.



Something more her style

Stevie Nicks does it for me.

Jim, here's one for folks like us

Sunny has a nice twangy country music voice, a great attitude, and she' not hard to look at:

Sunny Sweeney could use a big ugly bass player.....

Why the hell not?

TX is usually warmer this time of year than MT too.


OH, that Roland version is pretty cool too. Don't look like Lauren needs a base player though, she seems to have most every position covered.

Taylor Swift called out Soros for his shameless
greed, but Swift herself is only 1/3 his age and
at $365m not stopping anytime soon...

Princess Margaret told queen of Hollywood
Liz Taylor that her big in your face diamonds
were vulgar,.. Liz said why don't you try it on?
-then said.. Im sure they don't appear so vulgar
to you now.. 😂

Emmylou Harris

Karen Carpenter.

Paul McCartney, for one, said that she has "the best female voice in the world: melodic, tuneful and distinctive."

Irony...It's the other who is at fault.

No female voice will ever beat Karen Carpenter...

Loretta Lynn
Ann Wilson
Patsy Cline

If her and mama cass had split that sandwich they'd both still be here

I can dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5MgPZYpMbM

I've seen them a couple times, once opening for bls and I think once for megadeth

Well played!

You're kidding right? Tried to listen but couldn't make it through the whole song. Sure what I missed would not have made any difference.

Heard it mentioned already but Alison gets my vote for contemporary artists. This song blows my mind every time I hear it:



The lead singer of Cowboy Junkies is awesome as was Patsy Cline.

Can’t really imagine anyone as spectacularly gifted as Stevie tho:

Roberta Flack

LOL. Good one!

You old Perv! 😜

I hear she has a big following by the Colon Cowboys.

Stevie’s not that talented. She only plays the tambourine.
Alison, on my the other hand, is a master of several stringed instruments with a voice like an Angel. 🤠

Indeed!!!

Cat's mating can't make those noises.

my favorite, and for the past 50 years, is Francoise Hardy

Michael Jackson.

^^^cracked me up , dude! I will add one I just came across recently. Helene Fischer, a beautiful German lady!

Lol ya think?

Around here without a sarcasm emoji you never know for sure!

Floor Jansen

Not many people can top Ann Wilson singing this, but....


Watch until the end, thank me later.

Bonnie Raitt

Favorites are favorites for many differing reasons, and usually reflect something in the tastes - and often the needs - of the one choosing. Well be it.

Alison not only plays a few instruments well, but her voice is pure and she does not try to go beyond her natural range. She is a listener as well, and sings effectively with others - of several types. Alison's rendering of many, many touching and inspiring songs - not to mention the exciting - seems driven by a bunch of real-life experience and empathy. Certainly a favorite here.

Wow, some amazing talent. Some I never heard of.

That said, Stevie Nicks is a goddess!

I think Margaret was more jealous that Liz
could find men like Burton to swoon over her
and buy her a massive rock on top of it..
(I got it a bit wrong, it was actually Marg that
asked to try it on) ..also it would not be kosher
for a royal to regularly wear/flaunt such a stone
even if she did own it.

Hollywood made british Liz a queen,.. so Marg
rubbed shoulders with two Queen Elizabeths
but always remained just the queens sister...
.. sour grapes..


Krupp diamond 33 karat [GIA graded D/VS1]
such weight/high grade make it one incredible
rare stone.

Helene Fischer

https://youtu.be/I234Q56Ra9w

Haley Reinhart

https://youtu.be/sADOjoNux9o

linda ronstadt
alison krause
nora jones
randy crawford
sophie millman
elizabeth bougerol

Ok Boomers

Just the type of crizzap you all might like

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

K.D. Lang

Karen Carpenter
Ann Wilson
Stevie Nicks
Linda Ronstadt
Alison Krause

Alison Krause sings The Boxer.
I had never imagined this classic could sound well in the bluegrass idiom but Alison pulls it off with style. Plus plays the fiddle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy9B43ERrbw

Grace Potter without a doubt.

Grace Potter-an old Neal Young song

I did. Not my cup of tea. Or cup of whisky, or PGA, or Toluene

Tiny Tim

My favorite female singer is my avatar pic..A goddess... Angetha....

Shakira. I think she’s a vocalist. But she’s my favorite.

Poppy Loves You

Olena. Sometimes ferriners are talented too:

Not that it matters, but she blinks way to much.

So did Saddam Hussein

Someone mentioned Neko Case, right?

Crystal Gayle

I saw Bonnie Bishop in a small venue in Bluffton SC about 2 years ago. It was a good show and after got to chat with her and some of her musicians. I enjoyed it. Still not my favorite, but I'd see her again if she played here in NY. She was easy on the eyes too.

Oh, I found her voice to be a little - - - - - -thin.

Stevie Nicks
Linda Ronstadt

Flip a coin . . . depends upon what my mood is at the time.

Chick rules...but she had help.

I like this song. At least it is a half-way honest view into the female brain. Translation: "I want to f*ck."

I like Catherine Russell for when I feel like some jazz/blues. Also, her piano player, Mark Shane, is a real good friend of mine. We shoot skeet together. I have accompanied him on my cajon drum at some private parties. He's a real talent.

Yes! Here she is in her heyday singing "Never Miss a Real Good Thing." Live performance from Germany. What a voice!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W20TtJNQr_Y

plus, good looking piece of ass.

Yes! What a voice. Here she is in my Hometown Atlanta, live in 1977 singing "Willin."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMP8JsV7wbg



"I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonopah
I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads, so I wouldn't get weighed...

And if you give me...
Weed, whites, and wine
And show me a sign,
I'll be willin'....."

I drove the Big Rig over the road for 8 years. This is a song about truck driving and I love it. There is a beauty and a majesty about staying out on the road for weeks at a time and driving over the open roads and this song captures it. You have to do it for years, to understand it. I know, Linda never had a CDL but she is an artist and this is some great artistic expression.

I have driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed a dozen times. I always succeeded in dodging the scales, maybe I was lucky.



I will say, the open road of Interstate 20 west of Sweetwater Texas at 2 am, rolling west with the full moon shining on the white sands and the cactus of the desert, popping a 5 Hour Energy and smoking a Marlboro, that is a wonderful way to spend a few hours on God's Green Earth.

When I was in the Loves Truck Stop in Midland Texas for the night, out there on Interstate 20, stopped for a 10 hour break, at midnight, I might play this song four times in a row. Love this song.

Lzzy Hale of Halestorm one of todays 'heavy' hitters for sure.




+


Floor Jansen of Nightwish , gonna be tough to beat as well imho .

Olivia Newton John
Marie Fredriksson (Roxette)
Nancy Wilson (under rated Heart sister)

Amy Lee from the band evanescence. Not a great looker but one heck of a voice.

Currently Sierra Ferrell and Martha Spencer. Ferrell is amazing. Spencer sounds like Emmy Lou.

Aretha can sing, but damn she’s one ugly ass woman. She definitely fell out of the ugly tree and hit every damn branch on the way to the ground.

Will double this.

"Autumn Leaves" by her is amazing. Link help someone?

Eva Cassidy sings Paul Simon. A great rendition of a classic "Kathy's Song."
I never heard of Eva. I just looked her up. Died at age 33 from cancer. Damn.

They say the good die young.

Surprised no one has mentioned Ella Fitzgerald.

Many great singers mentioned, but I submit Nana Mouskouri as a top three contender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEb9dEMV3p8
Emmylou

Emmy Rossum. Best known for her excellent acting in Shameless, she can really sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeNnSm4uzGA

Lorraine Feather. Great voice and writes her own lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkmAEoMPh9M

Tierney Sutton
Jane Monheit

Anyone that hears her voice and is not moved or get goosebumps has either no heart or skin, or, just doesn't really appreciate music. My circle of friends include many talented musicians/singers and not a one isn't blown away by her voice. We have such discussions fairly regularly.

Not to hijack this thread but IMO the absolute best male singer (not most popular or best entertainer, but best voice) of my (boomer) generation was Art Garfunkel. In his prime, he was sublime (rhyme not intended).

ps Actually, come to think of it, with the range of his voice he could be included as a favorite female vocalist.

In their prime, I would have never been able to choose between Ann and Nancy Wilson. I still fantasize about them today.

Nana

Viki Leandros

Allison Krase
Patsy Kline. Hasbeen

I was wondering if she was going to make someone’s list

Floor Jensen or Nightwish - what a voice!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYjIlHWBAVo

Wow, color me impressed. She's got fantastic technique, amazing breath control, can sing for beauty AND power, sometimes at the same time. She's had a lot of classical training and it's paid off. And the band is NOT your usual three chord garage metal band. Really something special all around.

Karen Carpenter, the most beautiful voice along w/ Roy Orbison that I've ever heard. powdr

My vote.

I went to college with them. We were members of the Squaw Creek Rod and Bottle Club... obviously they had not made it yet. But they were working.

They are basically unheard of in the US. In Europe the headline stadiums. The band is from Finland, singer from Holland and the guy on the pipes and horns and other stuff from Scotland or Ireland (I forget).

Not going through 14 pages but if not mentioned before, Allison Krauss is amazing.

Always liked the unique sound and vocal skills of Dolly Parton.

That was before she had all the surgery. She looks like a freak now.

Not sure I have a traditional favorite female vocalist.

Here's my favorite female cover:

Ashley McBride,,,,

Dolly is a great talent but she got carried away with the plastic surgery about ten years ago. I don't follow her and I hardly follow country music but Dolly pops up on tv all the time in movies and interviews and ads. I do live fairly close to Dollywood so they run a lot of Dollywood ads here in western NC. Can't avoid her.

About ten years she really got her face butchered by some bad plastic surgery. Lately she has gotten that somewhat repaired but she still looks like a freak.

A group of us from 3rd plt. B 2/75 went to the Heart concert at the Seattle Coliseum on New Years Eve, 1978. Heart, Head East , I think and one other band. Nancy Wilson came out on stage in a flesh colored body suit. It was brutal, she was so Hot!

I think Kate Bush should at least get an honorable mention....

Peggy Lee
Julie London
Alison Krauss

My affection for her vocals is in reference to her hay-day.

Regarding her plastic surgery . . . it's almost as if her and Kenny got a 2-for-1 deal from a hack

Yes, Kenny looked terrible after his plastic surgery. Sad.

Pink Floyd "GREAT GIG IN THE SKY"
Can't remember the chicks name.....

My top 3...

1. Ann Wilson(Heart)- Unless you've seen this woman sing in person...you wouldn't understand.

2. Amy Lee(Evanescence)- Her voice gives me chills. Incredible range.

3. Lacey Strum(Flyleaf)- Best modern hard rock female voice. She's effing sexy as well.

Aretha Franklin...nuff said.

I think that was Karen Carpenter

Dinah Shore & Walter Brennen.

I'll give her third place behind the aforementioned Floor Jensen (Nightwish) and Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation)

Anne Wilson, or Floor Jansen?

Make the call...

My Walter Brennan imitations got laughs in 1970.....but now I don't think my grandkids will recognize the voice.

Anne Wilson is a borderline commie and that Floor gal is kinda homely.

Anne Wilson is a fat lib and her skinny sister on guitar is conservative.

The first 1:15 was like 20 years of marriage compressed into 75 seconds.

Anyone mention Eva Cassidy yet?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY&list=RD2rd8VktT8xY

Several times. Well worth a mention.

LMAO

Sorry, could not listen to more than 10 seconds of that. Her voice is like nails on a chalk board for me.

Now if you had said Kate Wolf, you would be getting somewhere. My band does this song of hers and our female singer does a great job on it. I seem to like female vocalists who died young from cancer. What's up with that?

Lmao that chick needs an exorcism

Mary of Peter Paul &Mary , never did know her name.!

https://youtu.be/21quS0cDaKo?list=PLLNHZEsecmftsucjWFxDziwJYnI7c9gDQ

Ann was not bad by any means. It would have been a tough choice!

I try not to listen to entertainers' politics, they over-rate their importance. And most of the time make themselves sound real stupid. The conservatives ones usually at least come across as having some common sense.

Mary Travers.
My wife was a red haired teen ager in Tokyo in the 70s and was Mary's daughter's babysitter when in Tokyo.

I’ve had the same favorite since the early 70’s, yes I’m a boomer. It’s unfortunate but she is probably a Libby but dont see her making an ass of herself in public, at least I haven’t. Someone here will probably prove me wrong though.

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Like a vocalists like i like guitars and actors - with not just range but capable of varying styles and unique gifts, roaring and rumbling like a home garage built mopar.

Jewel makes me weak in the knees. Woman can go from folk to rock to jazz and skat to yodel and back again. Her attractiveness kind of pigeonholed her in her youth, unfortunately.



Honorable mention to Lisa Ekdahl singing in English with the Peter Nordahl Trio. The accent, yeah, but she has this wonderfully delicate, feminine voice. Heard her voice cutting thru the din over the PA in a Swedish train station late 90’s - “Who the F is that...?!?,” had to track it down.

A good friend of our family. Lo Jones.

We can't leave out the Norwegian goddess, Sissel, in this version of "O Holy Night." This one brings tears to my eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-NZc4O6mA

https://youtu.be/i54CXSEz31s

https://youtu.be/i54CXSEz31s

Patsy Cline; Emmylou Harris

Clare Torry??? Sound right ?


I will throw out another backing vocalist, the one for Clapton on a few including the song "the Core"- Yvonne Elliman. Smooooooth.

That is some f*u*c*k*ed up s*h*it. All those flashing lights. You don't really like that crap, do you?

Write and perform you own hit music
and musical instrument ability....👍

It’s a good cover
But not Patsy good

That’s special.

You nailed it Whelenman. I heard she is auditioning for the role of Joker in the new Batman film. She won't need any makeup.

Love her.

She lays a liplock on Longmire in one of the novels. Made me a little jealous.

Haley Reinhart has a pretty good version on the Tube. Nice outfit too.



Have way too many I like to ever pick a favorite. Spend a lot of time listening to the little Korean cover artist J.Fla. Not the only one, as she has over 16 million followers, and billions with a “b” views. Has a little Stevie Nicks rasp with some Blossom Dearie mixed in.

Any love for Nightwish's original vocalist - Tarja Turunen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww2f4PPprSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7y4JCcwJEw

no

You would hit it. 😁

Pam Tillis

OK. You have a twisted sense of humor, much like mine.

Welcome to the club...

Favorite changes by month or year...:). Presently really enjoy Tarja formerly of Nightwish. Floor Jansen has proven a very worth successor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL25rbnvM4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YODCM26JXOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww2f4PPprSc

Sunny Sweeney

Haven't heard many live. But the best female singer I have heard Live was Ruby Wilson. Big old black Memphis Blues singer.

Some great ones here for sure. Here's one I'll throw in the ring.

In my best Casy Kasim voice, ahem, "The year was 1974..."

(First time I fell in love with an alleged lesbo.)

Hard to pick from so many. Here are two:

Enya:

https://youtu.be/7wfYIMyS_dI

Agnetha Fältskog (Abba):

https://youtu.be/5_GwjWux7Hw

Jennifer Nettles
Sugerland

It's very difficult to name one of all genres.

Almost as difficult to name only one per genre.

I'd agree with many mentioned, but the best old country singer is not the best new country singer and the best pop/rock singer is not the best opera or broadway singer. Or vise versa in each case also.

Glad I'm not the only one that is a fan