Thread: The greatest female lead singer of all time ?

Has anybody mentioned Eva Cassidy ? Truly a great talent undiscovered until her premature and untimely death from cancer. Beautiful singing voice.

nice laconic sound

I just found another Alanis Morrissete song , don't know how old it , missed it before.
Flows really smoothly
and fantastic lyrics.
Just downloading the lovely FLAC file , maybe this video sounds a bit thin and loud but still nice.

Christine McVie has to be up there somewhere.

Grace

Originally Posted by Neo

Christine McVie has to be up there somewhere.

though she has the voice , twas overshadowed by Nicks body

What a fucking tune!

Kate bush was back in concert tonight the first time for 35 years.
I looked for a youtube video- non there yet.
oh well perhaps best remembered young
like here in this new upload, a 1980 show.

I don't much like this song , but kate is looking her usually whacky self with extra sexy cheek bones too ..

video disabled by owner. Sorry

Grace Slick. Laura Nyro. Jennifer Warnes. Emmylou Harris. Joni Mitchell.

Originally Posted by thegent

Laura Nyro

Gent you surprised me! Excellent choice.

Yep, thegent is really coming out of his shell lately...

Stevie Nicks is great.

^ no, she's not.

Florence Ballard.

again

Macy gray
lovely !

'Lead Singer' implies fronting a band. Many if not most of the nominees here are solo artists.

Hands down it's gotta be this gurl!!

Sorry, errr, that could be a guy so this might be off topic..

Fairuz does it for me.





And Warda is awesome too.

Chrissie, Chrissie, Chrissie. R.I.P

Revolutionized female masturbation she did.

Originally Posted by Norton

The greatest female singer was Ella Fitzgerald, full stop. She needed no showmanship. Her voice alone was the show. She was "lead" singer for many bands as well. Really big bands ya know.

I agree. And I was lucky to see her twice live.

i'll vote for joss stone. she has that unique voice which others don't. unfortunately she's been out of the radar for quite some time now.