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Post by MartinT on Jul 29, 2020 22:01:00 GMT
Your Greatest... Female Singer
Please give just ONE offering and state your reasons why you like this performer. No lists! Whittling it down to just one is part of the challenge. Lists and possibles may attract deletion - you have been warned!!
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Post by Slinger on Jul 29, 2020 22:11:24 GMT
Emmylou Harris. Next.
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Post by Clive on Jul 29, 2020 22:20:06 GMT
Nanci Griffith.
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 30, 2020 5:02:44 GMT
Loreena Mckennitt. Her early and mid-period albums. She rather lost the plot in her later albums, where the vocal setting became increasingly cramped and clumsy. She was a singer/songwriter, now retired from performance to devote her energies to saving the planet. Celtic/folky featuring a colourful mix of eastern and western musical instruments, with a wonderful very tuneful directness. She produced her own albums on her own label, Quinlan Road, usually with excellent sq. Her concert DVD Nights from the Alhambra is a masterpiece both for the ears and the eyes. loreenamckennitt.com/'Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear dramatic soprano vocals.' [I've assumed the thread requirement is for non-classical] |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 30, 2020 6:29:11 GMT
I've given it some thought and plumped for Sarah McLachlan. Her performances on the albums Surfacing, Afterglow and Shine On are simply sublime. It's her vocal control that impresses me - just listen to Answer from Afterglow and wonder at her controlled emotional delivery. I've never heard her perform live but would love to.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 30, 2020 6:30:46 GMT
[I've assumed the thread requirement is for non-classical] I've suggested to Jules that we do something similar in the classical threads, Jerry. |
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Post by Tim on Jul 30, 2020 7:42:57 GMT
Nina Simone . . . . closely followed by . . . . many others  It's not just her talent, it's her personality and her determination to not give up despite the battles she endured to achieve what she did. Obstinate and extremely difficult to handle yes, but nonetheless a very rare talent. I often wonder how her life would have turned out as a concert pianist if she hadn't been subjected to racism, but I like to think the world got a better deal - not so much for Nina maybe, but who knows? |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 31, 2020 20:02:41 GMT
Dusty Springfield.
Iconic.
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Post by petea on Jul 31, 2020 20:39:45 GMT
Well, the list was long, but there can be only one. So it has to be Natalie Merchant.
I always enjoyed the intensity of her performance with 10,000 Maniacs, but she really came into her own once she left. That intensity is still there, and she really does live the songs she performs whether they be comments on social injustice, history or an interpretation of a children's nonsense rhyme.
Here is a fine example of that intensity in action.
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Post by naim1425 on Aug 1, 2020 8:44:18 GMT
Barbra Streisand.
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Post by Barrington on Aug 2, 2020 21:17:13 GMT
Hope Sandoval , she doesn't belt anything out , far from it she has a voice like syrup , dreamy , totally addictive .
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2020 21:37:25 GMT
I do like Hope Sandoval an awful lot. Dreamy and ethereal.
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Post by John on Aug 3, 2020 7:07:57 GMT
It has to be Billy Holiday for me.
Just listen to the pain in Strange Fruit still powerful.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 3, 2020 9:04:06 GMT
Even for me liking very few Female vocalists I can't pick one
At least half a dozen I want
No list as requested
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 4, 2020 19:17:16 GMT
The one that is played the most
Mavis
We'll never turn back
The anthem for BLM that no one has spotted
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 4, 2020 19:37:01 GMT
I've been giving this a serious amount of thought and struggled a lot but I have to plump for Patti Smith.
When she sings, she bloody well means it!
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Post by Tim on Aug 4, 2020 19:37:46 GMT
When she sings, she bloody well means it! ^^^ |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 5, 2020 9:17:36 GMT
I've been giving this a serious amount of thought and struggled a lot but I have to plump for Patti Smith. When she sings, she bloody well means it! Mavis certainly does. She lived, protested, got beaten up, locked up for it |
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